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El Paso Pipeline Partners LP (FRA:3EP1) Gross Margin % : 0.00% (As of Sep. 2014)


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What is El Paso Pipeline Partners LP Gross Margin %?

Gross Margin % is calculated as gross profit divided by its revenue. El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Profit for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €273 Mil. El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €273 Mil. Therefore, El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 0.00%. If there's no value for Cost of Goods Sold, then Gross Margin % is not calculated.


The historical rank and industry rank for El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin % or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:3EP1' s Gross Margin % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 100   Med: 100   Max: 100
Current: 100


During the past 11 years, the highest Gross Margin % of El Paso Pipeline Partners LP was 100.00%. The lowest was 100.00%. And the median was 100.00%.

FRA:3EP1's Gross Margin % is not ranked
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 27.82 vs FRA:3EP1: 100.00

El Paso Pipeline Partners LP had a gross margin of N/A% for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 => No sustainable competitive advantage

The 5-Year average Growth Rate of Gross Margin for El Paso Pipeline Partners LP was 0.00% per year.


El Paso Pipeline Partners LP Gross Margin % Historical Data

The historical data trend for El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin % can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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El Paso Pipeline Partners LP Gross Margin % Chart

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Competitive Comparison of El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin %

For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin %, along with its competitors' market caps and Gross Margin % 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.


El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin % falls into.



El Paso Pipeline Partners LP Gross Margin % Calculation

Gross Margin is the percentage of Gross Profit out of sales or Revenue. (Note that if there's no value for Cost of Goods Sold, then Gross Margin % is not calculated.)

El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Gross Margin % (A: Dec. 2013 )=Gross Profit (A: Dec. 2013 ) / Revenue (A: Dec. 2013 )
=1098.7 / 1098.65
=(Revenue - Cost of Goods Sold) / Revenue
=(1098.65 - 0) / 1098.65
=N/A %

El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Gross Margin for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as


Gross Margin % (Q: Sep. 2014 )=Gross Profit (Q: Sep. 2014 ) / Revenue (Q: Sep. 2014 )
=273.2 / 273.152
=(Revenue - Cost of Goods Sold) / Revenue
=(273.152 - 0) / 273.152
=N/A %

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

A positive Gross Profit is only the first step for a company to make a net profit. The gross profit needs to be big enough to also cover related labor, equipment, rental, marketing/advertising, research and development and a lot of other costs in selling the products.


El Paso Pipeline Partners LP  (FRA:3EP1) Gross Margin % Explanation

Warren Buffett believes that firms with excellent long term economics tend to have consistently higher margins.

Durable competitive advantage creates a high Gross Margin % because of the freedom to price in excess of cost. Companies can be categorized by their Gross Margin %

1. Greater than 40% = Durable competitive advantage
2. Less than 40% = Competition eroding margins
3. Less than 20% = no sustainable competitive advantage
Consistency of Gross Margin is key

El Paso Pipeline Partners LP had a gross margin of N/A% for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 => No sustainable competitive advantage


Be Aware

If a company loses its competitive advantages, usually its gross margin declines well before its sales declines. Watching Gross Margin % and Operating Margin % closely helps avoid value trap situations.


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El Paso Pipeline Partners LP (FRA:3EP1) Business Description

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El Paso Pipeline Partners LP is a Delaware Master Limited Partner formed in 2007. The Company owns and operates interstate natural gas transportation and terminaling facilities. The pipelines that the company owns are WIC, SLNG, Elba Express, SNG, CIG, SLC and CPG. WIC and CIG are interstate pipeline systems serving the Rocky Mountain region. CPG is an interstate pipeline that serves the Rocky Mountain and Midwest regions. SLNG owns the Elba Island LNG storage and regasification terminal near Savannah, Georgia. Elba Express and SNG are interstate pipeline systems serving the southeastern region of the U.S. SNG is comprised of pipelines extending from natural gas supply basins in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to market areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, including the metropolitan areas of Atlanta and Birmingham. SNG owns pipeline facilities serving southeastern markets in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. CIG is comprised of pipelines that deliver natural gas from production areas in the Rocky Mountains and the Anadarko Basin directly to customers in Colorado, Wyoming and indirectly to the Midwest, Southwest, California and Pacific Northwest. CIG also owns interests in five storage facilities located in Colorado and Kansas and one natural gas processing plant located in Wyoming. WIC is comprised of a mainline system that extends from western Wyoming to northeast Colorado (the Cheyenne Hub) and several lateral pipeline systems that extend from various interconnections along the WIC mainline into western Colorado, northeast Wyoming and eastern Utah. WIC owns interstate natural gas transportation systems providing takeaway capacity from the mature Overthrust, Piceance, Uinta, Powder River and Green River Basins. CPG is a pipeline system that extends from Cheyenne Hub in Weld County, Colorado and extends southerly to a variety of delivery points in the vicinity of the Greensburg Hub in Kiowa County, Kansas. CPG provides pipeline takeaway capacity from the natural gas basins in the Central Rocky Mountain area to the major natural gas markets in the Mid-Continent region. Elba Express owns the Elba Express pipeline that is capable of transporting natural gas supplies in a northerly direction from the Elba Island LNG terminal to markets in the southeastern and eastern U.S. or transporting natural gas in a southerly direction from interconnections with Transcontinental pipeline to markets located on Elba Express or to interconnections between Elba Express and SNG, Carolina Gas Transmission and SLNG. SLNG owns the Elba Island LNG receiving terminal, located near Savannah, Georgia. The Elba Island LNG terminal is one of nine land-based terminal facilities in the U.S. capable of providing domestic storage and vaporization services to international producers of LNG. The Company faces competition from other existing and proposed pipelines and LNG facilities, as well as from a

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