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.
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.
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.
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.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Williams Partners LP Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Williams Partners LP's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* 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.
Competitive Comparison of Williams Partners LP's Dividend Yield %
For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Williams Partners LP's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % 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 Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Williams Partners LP's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Williams Partners LP's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Williams Partners LP Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Williams Partners LP (FRA:WP8) Dividend Yield % Explanation
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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Williams Partners LP (FRA:WP8) Business Description
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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