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Williams Partners LP (FRA:WP8) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 7.47 (As of May. 26, 2024)


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What is Williams Partners LP 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Williams Partners LP's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 7.47.


The historical rank and industry rank for Williams Partners LP's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:WP8' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.21   Med: 6.53   Max: 7.63
Current: 7.47

During the past 12 years, Williams Partners LP's highest Yield on Cost was 7.63. The lowest was 4.21. And the median was 6.53.


FRA:WP8's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 4.82 vs FRA:WP8: 7.47

Competitive Comparison of Williams Partners LP's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Williams Partners LP's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % 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 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Williams Partners LP's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Williams Partners LP's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.


Williams Partners LP 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation

Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.

Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.

Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of Williams Partners LP is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost=Dividend Yield %*(1+Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Williams Partners LP  (FRA:WP8) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation

Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.

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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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