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Green Plains Partners LP is an oil & gas midstream business based in the US. Green Plains Partners shares (GPP) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars.
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- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
- Search for Green Plains Partners. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: GPP. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Green Plains Partners reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Green Plains Partners, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Green Plains Partners. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.
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Green Plains Partners share price
Use our graph to track the performance of GPP stocks over time.Green Plains Partners shares at a glance
Information last updated 2021-02-23.
| 52-week range | USD$3.2512 - USD$13.558 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | USD$9.5909 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$8.3098 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$13 |
| PE ratio | 5.6602 |
| Dividend yield | USD$0.48 (4.84%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$1.742 |
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Is Green Plains Partners under- or over-valued?
Valuing Green Plains Partners stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Green Plains Partners's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Green Plains Partners's P/E ratio
Green Plains Partners's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 6x. In other words, Green Plains Partners shares trade at around 6x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Green Plains Partners's PEG ratio
Green Plains Partners's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.49. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Green Plains Partners's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Green Plains Partners's EBITDA
Green Plains Partners's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$53.3 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Green Plains Partners's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Green Plains Partners financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$83.3 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 59.04% |
| Gross profit TTM | USD$57.2 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 29.16% |
| Return on equity TTM | 0% |
| Profit margin | 48.38% |
| Book value | $-3.136 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$228.8 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Green Plains Partners shares
There are currently 24,419 Green Plains Partners shares held short by investors – that's known as Green Plains Partners's "short interest". This figure is 16.7% down from 29,317 last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Green Plains Partners shares can be evaluated.
Green Plains Partners's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Green Plains Partners's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Green Plains Partners shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Green Plains Partners shares traded daily (recently around 69768.571428571). Green Plains Partners's SIR currently stands at 0.35. In other words for every 100,000 Green Plains Partners shares traded daily on the market, roughly 350 shares are currently held short.
However Green Plains Partners's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Green Plains Partners shares, or, against the total number of tradable Green Plains Partners shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Green Plains Partners's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Green Plains Partners shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0021% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Green Plains Partners shares, roughly 2 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Green Plains Partners.
Find out more about how you can short Green Plains Partners stock.
Green Plains Partners share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 27.49% of net profits
Recently Green Plains Partners has paid out, on average, around 27.49% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 4.84% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Green Plains Partners shareholders could enjoy a 4.84% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Green Plains Partners's case, that would currently equate to about $0.48 per share.
While Green Plains Partners's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Green Plains Partners may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Green Plains Partners's most recent dividend payout was on 12 February 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 4 February 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
Green Plains Partners share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Green Plains Partners's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.2512 up to $13.558. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Green Plains Partners's is 0.7182. This would suggest that Green Plains Partners's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Green Plains Partners overview
Green Plains Partners LP provides fuel storage and transportation services in the United States. It acquires, owns, develops, and operates ethanol and fuel storage facilities, terminals, transportation assets, and other related assets and businesses. The company owns or leases 32 ethanol storage facilities and approximately 49 acres of land; and 7 fuel terminals in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. It also owns and operates fleet of 19 trucks and tankers for transportation of ethanol and other products. Green Plains Holdings LLC serves as the general partner of the company. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Green Plains Partners LP is a subsidiary of Green Plains Inc.
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