USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) Posts Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.06 EPS

USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday. The oil and gas company reported $0.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.24 by ($0.06), Zacks reports. USA Compression Partners had a negative return on equity of 47.53% and a net margin of 9.36%.

USA Compression Partners Stock Up 1.8 %

NYSE:USAC opened at $29.30 on Tuesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.43 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 51.40 and a beta of 1.34. USA Compression Partners has a twelve month low of $21.06 and a twelve month high of $30.10. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $24.39 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $23.21.

USA Compression Partners Dividend Announcement

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, February 7th. Shareholders of record on Monday, January 27th were paid a $0.525 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Monday, January 27th. This represents a $2.10 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 7.17%. USA Compression Partners’s dividend payout ratio is 368.43%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts recently commented on USAC shares. Mizuho upped their price objective on shares of USA Compression Partners from $24.00 to $26.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Monday, February 3rd. Royal Bank of Canada reaffirmed a “sector perform” rating and set a $27.00 price target on shares of USA Compression Partners in a research report on Friday, November 22nd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, USA Compression Partners presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $26.50.

USA Compression Partners Company Profile

USA Compression Partners, LP provides compression services under term contracts with customers in the natural gas and crude oil industries in the United States. The company engineers, designs, operates, services, and repairs its compression units; and maintains related support inventory and equipment.