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.

$26.76 $0.32 (+1.21%)
52-week range $21.85 – $30.55
Master limited partnership NYSEEnergyOil & Gas Equipment & Services

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.

Forward yield 7.85% Last regular payment annualised, divided by the last price. An estimate of the next twelve months — not money that has been paid.
Trailing 12-month yield 7.85% Cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days ($2.10) divided by the last price. Backward-looking, and not comparable with a bond's yield to maturity or an index yield.
Forward annual payment $2.10 Forward estimate: the last regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year. It is an estimate of the next twelve months, not cash that has been paid.
Pays Quarterly Cadence of the regular payment, accepted only after three consecutive payments were reported at the same frequency.
Next ex-date First day the shares trade without the next payment attached.
Next pay date When the declared payment reaches holders.
Growth streak 0 yr No current run of increases: the most recent complete calendar year did not pay more than the year before it. Our stored payment history for this security begins in 2013.
Years paying 13 Complete calendar years with a payment in our stored history, which begins in 2013. The issuer may have paid for longer than we hold.
Payout ratio 189% Not meaningful for this structure — GAAP earnings do not describe what it pays out.
Income score 55 0-100 research screen, not a recommendation.

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

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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.

Company description supplied by the issuer and relayed by our market-data provider, not written by Income Investing. See data sources.

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.

Recorded payments for USAC. Amounts are per share as declared, in USD.
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.

2016: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2016 2017: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2017 2018: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2018 2019: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2019 2020: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2020 2021: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2021 2022: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2022 2023: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2023 2024: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2024 2025: $2.1000 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.10 2025
Bar height is the total per share of the regular distributions whose ex-dividend date fell in that calendar year, in USD. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, not by the issuer's own distribution year and not by the date the cash arrived. These are a trailing record — never the forward estimate shown in the tiles above.
Complete calendar years only, bucketed by ex-dividend date — the current year is still in progress and is left out.
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%
What can go wrong
MLP distributions are partnership cash flow, not dividends. Most of the payment is typically treated as return of capital that lowers your cost basis and is recaptured as income when you sell, holders receive a Schedule K-1 instead of a 1099, state filings can be required where the partnership operates, and units held in a retirement account can generate unrelated business taxable income. Distribution coverage depends on commodity volumes, contract terms and the partnership's own access to capital.

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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.

Questions about USAC

Does USAC pay a distribution, and how often?
Yes. The regular payment cadence recorded for USAC is quarterly. The annual figure works out at $2.10 per share. Forward estimate: the last regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year. It is an estimate of the next twelve months, not cash that has been paid. The last ex-date in our history is Jul 27, 2026.
What is the yield on USAC, and is it forward or trailing?
There are two, and they measure different things. The forward yield is 7.85%: the last regular payment annualised to $2.10 a year and divided by the last price of $26.76. That is an estimate of the next twelve months. The trailing 12-month yield is 7.85%: the $2.10 per share actually paid over the last 365 days, divided by the same price. Neither number is a bond's yield to maturity, an index effective yield or an interest rate, and none of those should be compared with these as like for like. Yield also moves inversely with price, so it rises when the market marks the security down — a high number is a question, not an answer.
When is the next USAC ex-dividend date?
No future ex-date has been declared or collected for USAC yet. The last one on record was Jul 27, 2026.
Why is there no meaningful payout ratio for USAC?
A payout ratio compares a dividend to accounting earnings. For a master limited partnership the payment is not funded out of GAAP net income — REITs and BDCs pay out of taxable income under distribution rules, funds pass through whatever the portfolio produced, and partnerships distribute cash flow. Analysts use structure-specific measures instead, such as funds from operations for REITs or net investment income for BDCs.
Is the USAC distribution the same as interest?
No. A distribution is whatever the vehicle chooses or is required to pass through in that period. It can contain dividends, interest, realised gains, option premium and return of capital, and only the year-end tax form shows the split. Return of capital is your own money coming back: it is not taxed on receipt, but it lowers your cost basis and therefore raises the gain you are taxed on later.
Has the USAC payment grown?
Over the complete calendar years in our history, the total went from $2.10 in 2016 to $2.10 in 2025. The chart on this page shows every year in between, including any cuts. Those totals bucket each payment by its ex-dividend date, so a year can hold more or fewer payments than the cadence implies when a payment shifts across a year end. Past payment history describes what happened, not what will happen.
How to read this page
Nothing on this page is investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold or sell USAC. Figures are drawn from third-party market data and our own calculations, may be delayed or wrong, and can change without notice. Confirm every number with the issuer and with your own broker, tax adviser and financial adviser before acting.

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