The historical rank and industry rank for Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Operating Margin % or its related term are showing as below:
MEP's Operating Margin % is not ranked *
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 7.85 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Operating Margin % only.
* 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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Midcoast Energy Partners LP Operating Margin % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Operating Margin %
For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Operating Margin %, along with its competitors' market caps and Operating Margin % 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.
Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Operating Margin % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Operating Margin % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Operating Margin % falls into.
Midcoast Energy Partners LP Operating Margin % Calculation
Operating Margin % - also known as operating income margin, operating profit margin and return on sales (ROS) - is the ratio of Operating Income divided by net sales or Revenue, usually presented in percent.
Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Operating Margin % for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 is calculated as
* 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.
Midcoast Energy Partners LP (NYSE:MEP) Operating Margin % Explanation
Just like Gross Margin %, it is important to see a company maintains its operating margin over time. Among the same industry, a company with higher operating margin is more efficient in its operation. It is also more stable during industry slowdown or recessions. Peter Lynch prefers those with higher margins than those with lower margins.
Be Aware
Operating Margin % can be manipulated by adjusting the rate of depreciation, depletion and amortization (DDA).
If a company is facing competition, its Operating Margin % may decline. Often the Operating Margin % declines well before the company's Revenue or even profit decline. Therefore, Operating Margin % is a very important indicator of whether the company is facing problems.
For instance, by 2012, Nokia (NOK)'s problems were well known and its stock had lost more than 90% of its market value since 2007. But Nokias Operating Margin % had already been in decline since 2002, although its Earnings per Share (Diluted) were still rising. Investors who paid attention to Operating Margin % would have avoided this huge loss. The same can be said for Research-in-Motion (RIMM).
Therefore, Operating Margin % is a very important screening filter for GuruFocus. GuruFocus's Buffett-Munger screener requires that the profit margin is either consistent or expanding. The Model Portfolio of the Buffett-Munger screener has outperformed the market every year since inception in 2009.
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Midcoast Energy Partners LP (Midcoast Energy Partners LP) Business Description
Midcoast Energy Partners LP is a Delaware limited partnership formed in 2013 to serve as Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P's primary vehicle for owning and growing its natural gas and NGL midstream business in the United States. Its business consists of gathering unprocessed and untreated natural gas from wellhead locations and other receipt points on its systems, processing the natural gas to remove NGLs and impurities at its processing and treating facilities and transporting the processed natural gas and NGLs to intrastate and interstate pipelines for transportation to various customers and market outlets. In addition it also provides marketing services of natural gas and NGLs to wholesale customers. It conducts business through two distinct reporting segments: Gathering, Processing and Transportation and Logistics and Marketing. Its gathering, processing and transportation business includes natural gas and NGL gathering and transportation pipeline systems, natural gas processing and treating facilities, condensate stabilizers and an NGL fractionation facility. It gathers natural gas from the wellhead and central receipt points on its systems, deliver it to facilities for processing and treating and deliver the residue gas to intrastate or interstate pipelines for transmission to wholesale customers such as power plants, industrial customers and local distribution companies. It delivers the NGLs produced at its processing and fractionation facilities to intrastate and interstate pipelines for transportation to the NGL market hubs in Mont Belvieu, Texas and Conway, Kansas. In addition, it delivers NGLs from certain of its facilities to the Texas Express NGL system for transportation on the Texas Express NGL mainline to Mont Belvieu, Texas. The primary role of its logistics and marketing business is to provide marketing services of natural gas, NGLs and condensate received from its gathering, processing and transportation business. It purchases and receives natural gas, NGLs and other products from pipeline systems and processing plants and sell and deliver them to wholesale customers, such as distributors, refiners, fractionators, chemical facilities, various third parties and end users. A majority of the natural gas and NGLs purchased are produced in Texas markets where it has intrastate deliverability alternatives over the past several years. It uses this connectivity to interstate pipelines to improve value for the producers by delivering natural gas into premium markets and NGLs to primary markets where it sells them to customers. It faces competition in the gathering, processing and transportation business, as well as in the marketing and logistics business. The Company's transmission and gathering pipelines, storage and processing facilities, and trucking and railcar operations are subject to extensive environmental, operational and safety regulation at federal and state levels.
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