Volatility is a statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index, it shows how the price swings around its mean. The volatility here is measured as the annualized standard deviation between monthly returns from the security over the past year. In most cases, the higher the volatility, the riskier the security.
Competitive Comparison of Regency Energy Partners LP's Volatility
For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Regency Energy Partners LP's Volatility, along with its competitors' market caps and Volatility 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.
Regency Energy Partners LP's Volatility Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Regency Energy Partners LP's Volatility distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Regency Energy Partners LP's Volatility falls into.
Regency Energy Partners LP (FRA:R3P) Volatility Calculation
The annualized volatility is calculated as following:
σA
=
σM
*
√12
=
√ 1/(n-1) ∑(Ri - R')^2
*
√12
Where: σM is the monthly volatility, n is the number of months in the period, Ri is the security's historical monthly returns and R' is the arithmetic mean of monthly returns.
* 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.
Regency Energy Partners LP (FRA:R3P) Volatility Explanation
Volatility is a statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index. It’s often measured as standard deviation or variance of historical returns over a certain period. The volatility here is measured as the annualized standard deviation between monthly returns from the security over the past year.
Volatility reflects the uncertainty or risk of a security’s value. Generally speaking, a higher volatility suggests a higher risk, because it implies a wider fluctuation around average price. This means the price of the security can change dramatically in either direction within a short period. Conversely, a lower volatility means that the security's price is more steady, which suggests a lower risk.
Another measurement of relative volatility is Beta. Beta is a measure of systematic risk of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. Beta is usually compared to 1. A beta of greater than 1 indicates that the security's price will be more volatile than the market.
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Regency Energy Partners LP (FRA:R3P) Business Description
Regency Energy Partners LP was incorporated in Delaware on September 8, 2005. The Company is engaged in the gathering and processing, compression, treating and transportation of natural gas and the transportation, fractionation and storage of NGLs. Its assets are mainly located in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, California, Mississippi, Alabama, New Mexico and the mid-continent region of the United States, which includes Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma. The Company is divided into five business segments; Gathering and Processing, Natural Gas Transportation, NGL Services, Contract Services and Corporate. The Gathering and Processing - provide "wellhead-to-market" services to producers of natural gas, which include transporting raw natural gas from the wellhead through gathering systems, processing raw natural gas to separate NGLs from the raw natural gas and selling or delivering the pipeline-quality natural gas and NGLs to various markets and pipeline systems. Natural Gas Transportation, NGL Services, Contract Services - owns and operates a fleet of compressors used to provide turn-key natural gas compression services for customer specific systems and Corporate comprises of corporate offices. It operates gathering and processing assets in four geographic regions of the United States: North Louisiana, the mid-continent region of the United States, south Texas and west Texas. The pipeline-quality natural gas remaining after separation of NGLs through processing is either returned to the producer or sold, for its own account or for the account of the producer, at the tailgates of its processing plants for delivery to interstate or intrastate gas transportation pipelines. The Company faces competition in each region in acquiring new gas supplies. The Company is subject to rules and regulations set forth by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources.
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