How to buy Western Midstream Partners stock

Western Midstream Partners, LP is an oil & gas midstream business based in the US. Western Midstream Partners shares (WES) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

How to buy shares in Western Midstream Partners

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2. 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.
3. Search for Western Midstream Partners. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: WES. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Western Midstream Partners reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. 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 Western Midstream Partners, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Western Midstream 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.

Western Midstream Partners share price

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Western Midstream Partners shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-23.

52-week range	USD$2.5541 - USD$17.15
50-day moving average	USD$15.7826
200-day moving average	USD$11.7787
Wall St. target price	USD$18.2
PE ratio	13.7407
Dividend yield	USD$1.555 (9.72%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.211

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Western Midstream Partners financials

Revenue TTM	USD$2.8 billion
Operating margin TTM	43.82%
Gross profit TTM	USD$1.7 billion
Return on assets TTM	6.54%
Return on equity TTM	17.68%
Profit margin	18.95%
Book value	$6.426
Market capitalisation	USD$6.9 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Western Midstream Partners shares

There are currently 2.8 million Western Midstream Partners shares held short by investors – that's known as Western Midstream Partners's "short interest". This figure is 20.7% down from 3.6 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Western Midstream Partners shares can be evaluated.

Western Midstream Partners's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Western Midstream Partners's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Western Midstream Partners shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Western Midstream Partners shares traded daily (recently around 1.4 million). Western Midstream Partners's SIR currently stands at 1.96. In other words for every 100,000 Western Midstream Partners shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1960 shares are currently held short.

However Western Midstream Partners's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Western Midstream Partners shares, or, against the total number of tradable Western Midstream Partners shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Western Midstream Partners's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Western Midstream Partners shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0164% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Western Midstream Partners shares, roughly 16 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 Western Midstream Partners.

Find out more about how you can short Western Midstream Partners stock.

Have Western Midstream Partners's shares ever split?

Western Midstream Partners's shares were split on a 10:9 basis on 26 November 2014. So if you had owned 9 shares 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 Western Midstream Partners shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 10% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Western Midstream Partners shares which in turn could have impacted Western Midstream Partners's share price.

Western Midstream Partners share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Western Midstream Partners's shares have ranged in value from as little as $2.5541 up to $17.15. 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 Western Midstream Partners's is 3.8559. This would suggest that Western Midstream Partners's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

Western Midstream Partners overview

Western Midstream Partners, LP, together with its subsidiaries, engages in gathering, processing, compressing, treating, stabilizing, and transporting natural gas, condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and crude oil primarily in the United States. It is also involved in gathering and disposing of produced water; and buying and selling of natural gas, NGLs, and condensate. Western Midstream Holdings, LLC operates as the general partner of the company. The company was formerly known as Western Gas Equity Partners, LP and changed its name to Western Midstream Partners, LP in February 2019. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas. Western Midstream Partners, LP is a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Western Midstream Partners is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 51.704% of Western Midstream Partners shares are held by insiders and 36.381% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Western Midstream Partners?

  Western Midstream Partners's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Western Midstream Partners based?

  Western Midstream Partners's address is: 9950 Woodloch Forest Drive, The Woodlands, TX, United States, 77380

• What is Western Midstream Partners's ISIN number?

  Western Midstream Partners's international securities identification number is: US9586691035

• What is Western Midstream Partners's CUSIP number?

  Western Midstream Partners's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 958254104