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El Paso Pipeline Partners LP (FRA:3EP1) PB Ratio : 3.38 (As of May. 06, 2024)


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What is El Paso Pipeline Partners LP PB Ratio?

The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-05-06), El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's share price is €34.01. El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €10.07. Hence, El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's PB Ratio of today is 3.38.

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

FRA:3EP1' s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.18   Med: 3.75   Max: 4.76
Current: 3.4

During the past 11 years, El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's highest PB Ratio was 4.76. The lowest was 1.18. And the median was 3.75.

FRA:3EP1's PB Ratio is not ranked
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 1.23 vs FRA:3EP1: 3.40

During the past 12 months, El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 43.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 3.40% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 7.80% per year.

During the past 11 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of El Paso Pipeline Partners LP was 13.80% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was 1.70% per year.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


El Paso Pipeline Partners LP PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's PB Ratio 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 PB Ratio Chart

El Paso Pipeline Partners LP Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 2.78 - - 3.70

El Paso Pipeline Partners LP Quarterly Data
Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14
PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.42 3.70 3.45 2.65 0.89

Competitive Comparison of El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's PB Ratio

For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio 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 PB Ratio Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's PB Ratio falls into.



El Paso Pipeline Partners LP PB Ratio Calculation

The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.

El Paso Pipeline Partners LP's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Sep. 2014)
=34.01/10.073
=3.38

* 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.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.


El Paso Pipeline Partners LP  (FRA:3EP1) PB Ratio Explanation

Unlike valuation ratios relative to the earning power such as PE Ratio, PE Ratio without NRI, PS Ratio, Price-to-Operating-Cash-Flow , or Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, the PB Ratio measures the valuation of the stock relative to the underlying asset of the company.

The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.


Be Aware

Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.


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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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