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Suburban Propane Partners LP is an utilities-regulated gas business based in the US. Suburban Propane Partners shares (SPH) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Suburban Propane Partners employs 3,131 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.5 billion.
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| Latest market close | $16.18 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $13.01 - $17.40 |
| 50-day moving average | $16.29 |
| 200-day moving average | $15.86 |
| Wall St. target price | $18.00 |
| PE ratio | 5.5971 |
| Dividend yield | $1.3 (8.64%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.78 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $16.18 from 2022-10-04
| 1 week (2022-09-29) | 6.10% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2022-09-06) | -3.35% |
| 3 months (2022-07-06) | 4.39% |
| 6 months (2022-04-06) | -2.18% |
| 1 year (2021-10-06) | 5.00% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2020-10-06) | -4.32% |
| 3 years (2019-10-04) | 23.47 |
| 5 years (2017-10-06) | 26.29 |
Valuing Suburban Propane Partners stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Suburban Propane Partners's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Suburban Propane 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, Suburban Propane 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.
Suburban Propane Partners's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.2448. 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 Suburban Propane 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.
Suburban Propane Partners's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $311.7 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Suburban Propane Partners's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.5 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 16.67% |
| Gross profit TTM | $391.9 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 7.37% |
| Return on equity TTM | 34.81% |
| Profit margin | 12.06% |
| Book value | $8.99 |
| Market capitalisation | $980.1 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 45.61% of net profits
Recently Suburban Propane Partners has paid out, on average, around 45.61% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 8.64% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Suburban Propane Partners shareholders could enjoy a 8.64% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Suburban Propane Partners's case, that would currently equate to about $1.3 per share.
While Suburban Propane Partners's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Suburban Propane Partners may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Suburban Propane Partners's most recent dividend payout was on 9 August 2022. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 1 August 2022 (the "ex-dividend date").
Suburban Propane Partners's shares were split on a 10:1 basis on 15 June 1999. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 10 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Suburban Propane Partners shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 90% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Suburban Propane Partners shares which in turn could have impacted Suburban Propane Partners's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Suburban Propane Partners's shares have ranged in value from as little as $13.014 up to $17.4046. 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 (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Suburban Propane Partners's is 0.646. This would suggest that Suburban Propane Partners's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Suburban Propane Partners, L. P. , through its subsidiaries, engages in the retail marketing and distribution of propane, fuel oil, and refined fuels. The company operates in four segments: Propane, Fuel Oil and Refined Fuels, Natural Gas and Electricity, and All Other. The Propane segment is involved in the retail distribution of propane to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers, as well as in the wholesale distribution to industrial end users. It offers propane primarily for space heating, water heating, cooking, and clothes drying in the residential and commercial markets; for use as a motor fuel in internal combustion engines to power over-the-road vehicles, forklifts, and stationary engines, as well as to fire furnaces, as a cutting gas to the industrial customers, and in other process applications; and for tobacco curing, crop drying, poultry brooding, and weed control in the agricultural markets. The Fuel Oil and Refined Fuels segment engages in the retail distribution of fuel oil, diesel, kerosene, and gasoline to residential and commercial customers for use primarily as a source of heat in homes and buildings.
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