Master limited partnership
USA Compression Partners, LP (USAC)
USA Compression Partners, LP trades as USAC on NYSE. This page collects what it has actually paid — every recorded payment, the calendar-year totals, the forward and trailing 12-month yields side by side against the last price, and the dates already declared.
Price as of Aug 25, 2026 (9 hours ago) · supplied by fmp. Quotes may be delayed. Verify with your broker before acting on anything here.
The two yields above are different measurements and are not interchangeable. The forward yield annualises the last regular payment; the trailing 12-month yield counts the cash actually paid over the last 365 days. Neither is an interest rate, a bond's yield to maturity or an index effective yield, and none of those may be compared with these as like for like. See how we compute these numbers.
Our stored payment history for USAC begins in 2013. There is no current run of increases to report: either the most recent complete calendar year did not pay more than the year before it, or there is no earlier complete year in our history to compare it with.
A yield is just a payment divided by a price, so it moves every day even when the payment does not. The forward number is an estimate of the next twelve months; the trailing number is what was actually paid over the last twelve. Ex-date is the cut-off: own the shares before it and the next payment is yours, buy on or after it and the seller keeps it.
What USAC is
USA Compression Partners, LP, a growth-focused Delaware limited partnership, is a leading provider of natural gas compression services, notably possessing the industry's largest compression fleet by horsepower. The company delivers vital compression solutions to a broad spectrum of clients, including oil companies, independent producers, processors, gatherers, and transporters of natural gas and crude oil, while also managing its own operational stations. Its core business centers on supplying natural gas compression for critical infrastructure, such as centralized natural gas gathering networks and processing plants. Established in 1998, the firm maintains its corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas.
USAC is a master limited partnership. You hold units, not shares, and you are a limited partner rather than a shareholder. The partnership pays no entity-level tax; it passes income and deductions through to unitholders, who receive a Schedule K-1 each year instead of a 1099.
A large part of a typical MLP distribution is treated as return of capital that lowers your cost basis and is recaptured when you sell. K-1s arrive late, can require state filings, and units held inside a retirement account can generate unrelated business taxable income. Read how MLPs work.
Figures on this page are computed by Income Investing from the payment history and last price stored in our own database; the payment records come from fmp and the price from fmp, last recomputed Aug 25, 2026. They describe what has been paid, not what will be paid. Yield, payout ratio, our data sources and our methodology are explained elsewhere on the site.
Payment history
Each row is one payment as recorded by our data provider, newest first. The final column compares it with the nearest payment about a year earlier.
The table lists the 24 most recent recorded distributions for USAC, newest first, with ex-dates running from Oct 23, 2020 to Jul 27, 2026. The latest is $0.5250 per share in USD, ex-date Jul 27, 2026, pay date Aug 07, 2026. Measured against the nearest payment about a year earlier, 0 are higher, 0 lower and 24 unchanged; the remaining 0 have no comparable payment in the record. None is flagged as a special or one-off payment. Payment records supplied by fmp.
How to read this table: one row is one payment, newest at the top, and the amount is what a single share received on that one date. It is not an annual figure — the yearly ones are in the tiles above and in the totals further down. A row marked Special is a one-off the issuer chose to make rather than part of the regular schedule, which is why it is left out of the year-on-year comparison and out of those yearly totals. Whether the amount repeats for several rows or moves every time is a fact about the structure rather than a sign of health: a company usually resets its dividend once a year, while a fund's distribution can change with every payment.
| Ex-dateOwn it before this day and this payment is yours. | Pay date | Amount per shareWhat one share received on that date, before tax. | Cadence tagged by provider | Type | vs. a year earlier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2026 | Aug 07, 2026 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Apr 27, 2026 | May 08, 2026 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Feb 06, 2026 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Nov 07, 2025 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Aug 08, 2025 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Apr 28, 2025 | May 09, 2025 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jan 27, 2025 | Feb 07, 2025 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Oct 21, 2024 | Nov 01, 2024 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jul 22, 2024 | Aug 02, 2024 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Apr 19, 2024 | May 03, 2024 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jan 19, 2024 | Feb 02, 2024 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Oct 20, 2023 | Nov 03, 2023 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Aug 04, 2023 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Apr 21, 2023 | May 05, 2023 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jan 20, 2023 | Feb 03, 2023 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Nov 04, 2022 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Aug 05, 2022 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Apr 22, 2022 | May 06, 2022 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jan 21, 2022 | Feb 04, 2022 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Nov 05, 2021 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jul 23, 2021 | Aug 06, 2021 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Apr 23, 2021 | May 07, 2021 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jan 22, 2021 | Feb 05, 2021 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Oct 23, 2020 | Nov 06, 2020 | $0.5250 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
The cadence column is the tag our provider attached to that individual payment (fmp), not the security's established schedule. The two can disagree, which is why the cadence shown in the tiles above is only accepted after three consecutive payments were tagged the same way.
A blank comparison means there was no comparable payment within sixty days of the same point a year earlier — a new payer, a changed cadence, or a gap in the record. Special and one-off payments are labelled and are excluded from the comparison.
Distributions by calendar year
Calendar-year totals, bucketed by ex-dividend date: every regular distribution whose ex-dividend date fell in that year, for the last ten complete years on record. These are amounts actually paid, never a forward estimate, and they are not the issuer's own annual distribution figure.
The chart covers 10 complete calendar years for USAC, 2016 to 2025, per share, in USD. Each bar totals the regular distributions with an ex-dividend date in that calendar year. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, which is not necessarily the issuer's own distribution year. Our stored payment history for USAC begins in 2013. The total went from $2.10 in 2016 to $2.10 in 2025 — essentially unchanged. Within that span 1 year was higher than the year before and 0 lower. The three most recent years shown are 2023 $2.10, 2024 $2.10 and 2025 $2.10. The current year is still in progress and is left out, and special or one-off payments are excluded. This is a record of what was paid, not a projection. Every year shown holds the 4 distributions a quarterly cadence implies, so no year on this chart is short or long because a payment shifted across a year end.
Each bar, and each row underneath it, is one calendar year of regular payments added together for a single share. Read left to right and you are reading whether the payment has grown, held or been cut — a record of what was paid, never a forecast of what will be. One thing to watch for: a year here is decided by the date the payment went ex, so when that date slips across a year end one year holds an extra payment and its neighbour is one short while the payment itself never moved. Any year where that has happened is drawn as a dashed bar and marked with an asterisk, and it is the usual reason these totals differ from the annual figure the issuer itself publishes.
| Year | Paid per share that yearEvery regular payment dated in that year, added up, for one share. | Payments in the yearA count that differs from the usual one means a payment moved across a year end. | Change on the year before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $2.10 | 4 | +1.20% |
| 2017 | $2.10 | 4 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | $2.10 | 4 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | $2.10 | 4 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | $2.10 | 4 | 0.00% |
| 2021 | $2.10 | 4 | 0.00% |
| 2022 | $2.10 | 4 | 0.00% |
| 2023 | $2.10 | 4 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | $2.10 | 4 | 0.00% |
| 2025 | $2.10 | 4 | 0.00% |
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The eight closest master limited partnership entries by trailing 12-month yield, in the same sector. A research screen, not a recommendation.
These are not the best-paying securities of this kind, and no ranking is meant by the order. They are the ones whose trailing 12-month yield sits nearest to this one, in the same structure and usually the same sector, so that this security can be seen in company rather than on its own. Every figure here is backward-looking cash that has already been paid. A row that sits well away from the rest is a question to take to that security's own page, not an answer.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Every row in this table is on the same basis — cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days, divided by that security's last price — so the column can be read down. Forward estimates are deliberately not used here, because they exist for some securities and not others and a mixed column would invite a comparison that does not hold. A dash means no payment was recorded in the last 365 days, or no price is on file. Open a security to see both of its yields.