Dominion Energy Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:DM) currently has an A verage Broker Rating of 2.67. This number is based on the 6 sell-side firms polled by Zacks. The ABR rank within the industry stands at 58. Analysts on a consensus basis are expecting that the stock will reach $17.57 within the year.  The ABR is provided by Zacks which simplfies analyst ratings into an integer based number. They use a one to five scale where they translate brokerage firm Buy/Sell/Hold recommendations into an average broker rating. A low number in the 1-2 range typically indicates a Buy, 3 represents a Hold and 4-5 represents a consensus Sell rating. 

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Most recently Dominion Energy Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:DM) posted quarterly earnings of $0.3 which compared to the sell-side estimates of 0.39. The stock’s 12-month trailing earnings per share stands at $1.4. Shares have moved $-7.49 over the past month and more recently, $-5.97 over the past week heading into the earnings announcement. There are 2 analyst projections that were taken into consideration from respected brokerage firms.

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Buy Ratings
1 analysts rate Dominion Energy Midstream Partners, LP a Buy or Strong Buy, which is 16.67% of all the analyst ratings.

Earnings
Research analysts are predicting that Dominion Energy Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:DM) will report earnings of $0.26 per share when the firm issues their next quarterly report. This is the consensus earnings per share number according to data from Zack’s Research.

Dominion Energy Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:DM) closed the last session at $17.16 and sees an average of 1509129 shares trade hands in each session. The 52-week low of the stock stands at $12.8 while the current level stands at 23.07% of the 52-week High-Low range. Looking further out we can see that the stock has moved -7.14% over the past 12 weeks and -4.88% year to date.

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