Institutional investors purchased a net $1.1 million shares of WES during the quarter ended December 2012. This may signal that the smart money is gaining interest in this company as the 38.70% of shares outstanding that institutional investors hold is actually below the Oil & Gas Pipelines industry average.
| Individual stakeholders | 48.40% |
| Other institutional | 24.62% |
| Mutual fund holders | 14.09% |