Williams Partners LP (FRA:WP8) Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) : 439 Mil (As of Sep. 2014)

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What is Williams Partners LP Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)?

Shares outstanding are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them. Williams Partners LP's average diluted shares outstanding for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 439 Mil.

Williams Partners LP Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Williams Partners LP's Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) can be seen below:

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Williams Partners LP Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) Chart

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Williams Partners LP Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) Calculation

Shares outstanding are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them. They have voting rights and represent ownership in the corporation by the person that holds the shares. They should be distinguished from treasury shares, which are shares held by the corporation itself, having no exercisable rights.

Shares outstanding can be calculated as either basic or fully diluted. The fully diluted shares outstanding count includes diluting securities, such as options, warrants or convertibles.

Please note: GuruFocus named Shares Outstanding (EOP) is the shares for that exact time point. It is usually used to calculate balance sheet related items, such as Book Value per Share, etc. While Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) and Shares Outstanding (Basic Average) are the weighted average shares over a period of time (a year, a quarter, or so). They are usually used to calculate income statement or cashflow statement related items, such as Earnings per Share (Diluted), etc.

Williams Partners LP (FRA:WP8) Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) Explanation

A company may buy back shares or issue shares in any fiscal period. If a company buys back shares, we should observe that the total number of shares decline. If the company issues new shares, the number of shares outstanding increases.

Be Aware

Usually the presence of treasury shares and a history of buyback are good indicators that company has competitive advantage. But studies have shown that companies usually buy back at wrong time. Buying back shares below its intrinsic value increases value for remaining shareholders. Buying back overvalued shares destroys value for existing shareholders.

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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 â€” this segment includes its natural gas gathering and processing and NGL fractionation businesses in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions, Atlantic-Gulf â€” 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 â€” 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 â€” 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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