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ONEOK Partners L.P

Dividend Yield: 5.40%

ONEOK Partners L.P (NYSE:OKS) shares currently have a dividend yield of 5.40%.

ONEOK Partners, L.P. engages in the gathering, processing, storage, and transportation of natural gas in the United States. It operates in three segments: Natural Gas Gathering and Processing, Natural Gas Pipelines, and Natural Gas Liquids. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.22. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate ONEOK Partners L.P a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 9 rate it a hold.

The average volume for ONEOK Partners L.P has been 494,800 shares per day over the past 30 days. ONEOK Partners L.P has a market cap of $7.7 billion and is part of the energy industry. Shares are down 3.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.

TheStreet Ratings rates ONEOK Partners L.P as a buy. Among the primary strengths of the company is its reasonable valuation levels, considering its current price compared to earnings, book value and other measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat weak growth in earnings per share.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

• OKS, with its decline in revenue, slightly underperformed the industry average of 3.0%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 7.0%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.

• The share price of ONEOK PARTNERS -LP has not done very well: it is down 6.07% and has underperformed the S&P 500, in part reflecting the company's sharply declining earnings per share when compared to the year-earlier quarter. Turning toward the future, the fact that the stock has come down in price over the past year should not necessarily be interpreted as a negative; it is one of the factors that makes this stock an attractive investment.

• The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, ONEOK PARTNERS -LP has underperformed in comparison with the industry average, but has exceeded that of the S&P 500.

• The gross profit margin for ONEOK PARTNERS -LP is currently extremely low, coming in at 9.50%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 7.21% trails that of the industry average.

• You can view the full ONEOK Partners L.P Ratings Report.

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