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Williams Partners LP (FRA:WP8) 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate : 68.50% (As of Sep. 2014)


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What is Williams Partners LP 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate?

Williams Partners LP's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €0.71.

The historical rank and industry rank for Williams Partners LP's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:WP8' s 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 68.5
Current: 68.5

During the past 12 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Williams Partners LP was 68.50% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was 0.00% per year.

FRA:WP8's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate is not ranked
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 14.5 vs FRA:WP8: 68.50

During the past 12 months, Williams Partners LP's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 4.70% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 68.50% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.

Williams Partners LP's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was 13.19. As of today, Williams Partners LP's Dividend Yield % is 7.47%.

Warning Sign:

If a company dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout of Williams Partners LP is 12.18, which seems too high.

For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.


Competitive Comparison of Williams Partners LP's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate

For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Williams Partners LP's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Williams Partners LP's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Williams Partners LP's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Williams Partners LP's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate falls into.



Williams Partners LP 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Calculation

This is the average annual rate that a company has been raising its dividends. The growth rate is calculated with expontential compound based on the latest four year annual data.

Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.


Williams Partners LP  (FRA:WP8) 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Explanation

1. Dividend Payout Ratio measures the percentage of the company's earnings paid out as dividends.

Williams Partners LP's Dividend Payout Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as

Dividend Payout Ratio=Dividends per Share (Q: Sep. 2014 )/ EPS without NRI (Q: Sep. 2014 )
=0.712/ 0.054
=13.19

During the past 12 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Williams Partners LP was 13.10. The lowest was 0.71. And the median was 1.79.

Warning Sign:

If a company dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout of Williams Partners LP is 12.18, which seems too high.

2. Dividend Yield % measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

During the past 12 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Williams Partners LP was 7.63%. The lowest was 4.21%. And the median was 6.53%.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


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Williams Partners LP (FRA:WP8) Business Description

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Williams Partners LP is a publicly traded Delaware limited partnership formed by The Williams Companies, Inc. (Williams) in 2005. It is an energy infrastructure company. The Company is engaged in natural gas transportation; gathering, treating, and processing; storage; NGL fractionation; olefins production; and oil transportation. The operations of its businesses are located in North America. The Company's operations are divided into four business segments: Northeast G&P — this segment includes its natural gas gathering and processing and NGL fractionation businesses in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions, Atlantic-Gulf — this segment includes its interstate natural gas pipeline, Transco, and significant natural gas gathering and processing and crude oil production handling and transportation in the Gulf Coast region, West — this segment includes its natural gas gathering, processing and treating operations in New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming and its interstate natural gas pipeline, Northwest Pipeline, and NGL & Petchem Services — this segment includes its NGL and natural gas marketing business, an NGL fractionator and storage facilities near Conway, Kansas. The Company markets NGL products to a wide range of users in the energy and petrochemical industries. The NGL marketing business transports and markets its equity NGLs from the production at its processing plants, and also markets NGLs on behalf of third-party NGL producers, including some of our fee-based processing customers, and the NGL volumes owned by Discovery. The Company also market olefin products to a wide range of users in the energy and petrochemical industries. Its gathering and processing business competes with other midstream companies, interstate and intrastate pipelines, producers and independent gatherers and processors. The Company's operations are subject to federal environmental laws and regulations as well as the state, local, and tribal laws and regulations adopted by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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