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Williams Partners LP (Williams Partners LP) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $574 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2018)


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What is Williams Partners LP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Williams Partners LP's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2018 was $136 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2018 was $574 Mil.


Williams Partners LP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Williams Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense 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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Williams Partners LP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Williams Partners LP Annual Data
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Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Williams Partners LP Quarterly Data
Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18
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Competitive Comparison of Williams Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Williams Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense 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.


Williams Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Williams Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Williams Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Williams Partners LP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $574 Mil.

* 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.


Williams Partners LP  (NYSE:WPZ) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.


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Williams Partners LP (Williams Partners LP) Business Description

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Williams Partners is a large pipeline company that owns and operates the large Transco and Northwest pipeline systems and associated natural gas gathering and processing and storage assets. It also owns a 60% stake in Discovery, which owns offshore natural gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico. Williams Companies, a publicly traded C-Corporation, owns a 74% interest in Williams Partners. The partnership owns the underlying assets while the corporation holds the stake in the limited partnership.

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