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Piedmont Natural Gas Co (Piedmont Natural Gas Co) Asset Turnover : 0.03 (As of Jul. 2016)


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What is Piedmont Natural Gas Co Asset Turnover?

Asset Turnover measures how quickly a company turns over its asset through sales. It is calculated as Revenue divided by Total Assets. Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Revenue for the three months ended in Jul. 2016 was $158 Mil. Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Total Assets for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2016 was $5,519 Mil. Therefore, Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Asset Turnover for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2016 was 0.03.

Asset Turnover is linked to ROE % through Du Pont Formula. Piedmont Natural Gas Co's annualized ROE % for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2016 was -1.75%. It is also linked to ROA % through Du Pont Formula. Piedmont Natural Gas Co's annualized ROA % for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2016 was -0.49%.


Piedmont Natural Gas Co Asset Turnover Historical Data

The historical data trend for Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Asset Turnover 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.

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Piedmont Natural Gas Co Asset Turnover Chart

Piedmont Natural Gas Co Annual Data
Trend Oct06 Oct07 Oct08 Oct09 Oct10 Oct11 Oct12 Oct13 Oct14 Oct15
Asset Turnover
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.46 0.32 0.31 0.32 0.28

Piedmont Natural Gas Co Quarterly Data
Oct11 Jan12 Apr12 Jul12 Oct12 Jan13 Apr13 Jul13 Oct13 Jan14 Apr14 Jul14 Oct14 Jan15 Apr15 Jul15 Oct15 Jan16 Apr16 Jul16
Asset Turnover Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.03 0.04 0.09 0.06 0.03

Competitive Comparison of Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Asset Turnover

For the Utilities - Regulated Gas subindustry, Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Asset Turnover, along with its competitors' market caps and Asset Turnover 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.


Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Asset Turnover Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Asset Turnover distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Asset Turnover falls into.



Piedmont Natural Gas Co Asset Turnover Calculation

Asset Turnover measures how quickly a company turns over its asset through sales.

Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Asset Turnover for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2015 is calculated as

Asset Turnover
=Revenue/Average Total Assets
=Revenue (A: Oct. 2015 )/( (Total Assets (A: Oct. 2014 )+Total Assets (A: Oct. 2015 ))/ count )
=1371.718/( (4774.307+5110.75)/ 2 )
=1371.718/4942.5285
=0.28

Piedmont Natural Gas Co's Asset Turnover for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2016 is calculated as

Asset Turnover
=Revenue/Average Total Assets
=Revenue (Q: Jul. 2016 )/( (Total Assets (Q: Apr. 2016 )+Total Assets (Q: Jul. 2016 ))/ count )
=157.806/( (5464.26+5574.708)/ 2 )
=157.806/5519.484
=0.03

* 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.

Companies with low profit margins tend to have high Asset Turnover, while those with high profit margins have low Asset Turnover. Companies in the retail industry tend to have a very high turnover ratio.


Piedmont Natural Gas Co  (NYSE:PNY) Asset Turnover Explanation

Asset Turnover is linked to ROE % through Du Pont Formula.

Piedmont Natural Gas Co's annulized ROE % for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2016 is

ROE %**(Q: Jul. 2016 )
=Net Income/Total Stockholders Equity
=-26.92/1536.744
=(Net Income / Revenue)*(Revenue / Total Assets)*(Total Assets / Total Stockholders Equity)
=(-26.92 / 631.224)*(631.224 / 5519.484)*(5519.484/ 1536.744)
=Net Margin %*Asset Turnover*Equity Multiplier
=-4.26 %*0.1144*3.5917
=ROA %*Equity Multiplier
=-0.49 %*3.5917
=-1.75 %

Note: The Net Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Jul. 2016) net income data. The Revenue data used here is four times the quarterly (Jul. 2016) revenue data.

* 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.

** The ROE % used above is for Du Pont Analysis only. It is different from the defined ROE % page on our website, as here it uses Net Income instead of Net Income attributable to Common Stockholders in the calculation.

It is also linked to ROA % through Du Pont Formula:

Piedmont Natural Gas Co's annulized ROA % for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2016 is

ROA %(Q: Jul. 2016 )
=Net Income/Total Assets
=-26.92/5519.484
=(Net Income / Revenue)*(Revenue / Total Assets)
=(-26.92 / 631.224)*(631.224 / 5519.484)
=Net Margin %*Asset Turnover
=-4.26 %*0.1144
=-0.49 %

Note: The Net Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Jul. 2016) net income data. The Revenue data used here is four times the quarterly (Jul. 2016) revenue data.

* 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.


Be Aware

In the article Joining The Dark Side: Pirates, Spies and Short Sellers, James Montier reported that In their US sample covering the period 1968-2003, Cooper et al find that firms with low asset growth outperformed firms with high asset growth by an astounding 20% p.a. equally weighted. Even when controlling for market, size and style, low asset growth firms outperformed high asset growth firms by 13% p.a. Therefore a company with fast asset growth may underperform.

Therefore, it is a good sign if a company's Asset Turnover is consistent or even increases. If a company's asset grows faster than sales, its Asset Turnover will decline, which can be a warning sign.


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Piedmont Natural Gas Co (Piedmont Natural Gas Co) Business Description

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Piedmont Natural Gas Co Inc was incorporated in New York in 1950 and began operations in 1951. In 1994, it merged into a newly formed North Carolina corporation with the same name for the purpose of changing its state of incorporation to North Carolina. The Company is an energy services company whose business is distribution of natural gas to residential, commercial, industrial and power generation clients in portions of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including customers served by municipalities who are its wholesale customers. The Company is invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, regulated interstate natural gas transportation and storage and regulated intrastate natural gas transportation. It provides service from resource centers in Anderson, Greenville and Spartanburg in South Carolina and Charlotte, Salisbury, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, Burlington, Hickory, Indian Trail, Spruce Pine, Reidsville, Fayetteville, New Bern, Wilmington, Tarboro, Elizabeth City, Rockingham and Goldsboro in North Carolina. In North Carolina, it also provides natural gas service to Greenville, Rocky Mount and Wilson. In Tennessee, its service area is the metropolitan area of Nashville, including wholesale natural gas service to Gallatin and Smyrna. The Company has three reportable business segments, regulated utility, regulated non-utility activities and unregulated non-utility activities. The regulated utility segment includes operating a safe and reliable natural gas distribution system and the ability to recover the costs and expenses of the business in the rates charged to customers. The regulated non-utility activities segment consists of equity method investments in regulated energy-related joint ventures that are held by the Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries. The unregulated non-utility activities segment consists of its equity method investment in an unregulated energy-related joint venture that is held by a wholly-owned subsidiary. The regulated utility competes with other energy products, such as electricity and propane, in the residential and commercial customer markets. Natural gas for power generation competes with other fuel sources for the generation of electricity, including coal, nuclear and renewable resources. Additionally, as with industrial customers, the Company competes with other pipeline providers to serve the power generation plants.
Executives
Frank H Yoho officer: Senior Vice President 5430 LBJ FREEWAY, SUITE 1800, DALLAS TX 75240
Thomas E Skains director, officer: Chairman, President and CEO 214 N TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE NC 28202
Phillip D Wright director 17988 EDISON AVE., CHESTERFIELD MO 63005
Holding Frank B Jr director 4300 SIX FORKS ROAD, RALEIGH NC 27609
Vicki W Mcelreath director PO BOX 33068, CHARLOTTE NC 28233
Minor M Shaw director PO BOX 6721, C/O MICCO CORP, GREENVILLE SC 29606
John W Harris director PO BOX 26532, RICHMOND VA 23261
Kim R Cocklin officer: Vice President C/O ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION, PO BOX 650205, DALLAS TX 75256

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