If a company dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout of QEP Midstream Partners LP is 0.795, which seems too high.
During the past 4 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of QEP Midstream Partners LP was 1.46. The lowest was 0.26. And the median was 0.94.
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Competitive Comparison of QEP Midstream Partners LP's Dividend Yield %
For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, QEP Midstream 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.
QEP Midstream Partners LP's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, QEP Midstream Partners LP's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where QEP Midstream Partners LP's Dividend Yield % falls into.
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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QEP Midstream Partners LP (FRA:1QM) Business Description
QEP Midstream Partners LP provides gathering, compression and transportation services to producers and users of natural gas and crude oil. Its assets consist of ownership interests in four gathering systems and two FERC-regulated pipelines. Its assets are located in the Green River Basin located in Wyoming and Colorado, the Uinta Basin located in eastern Utah, and the portion of the Williston Basin located in North Dakota. The company derives revenues from the fee-based agreements.
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