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Stock Evaluator: The Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB)

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The Williams Companies, Inc. WMB

$73.24 -1.89 -2.52%
August 19, 2026 4:00:02 PM EST November 10, 2021 Volume: 5,424,805
After Hours: $120.37   0.15  |  0.12% November 10, 2021 7:59 PM EST Volume: 72,713
USD NYSE | DELAYED PRICE
SECTOR INDUSTRY
Energy Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

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COMPANY SUMMARY
The Williams Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy infrastructure company primarily in the United States. It operates through Transmission, Power & Gulf, Northeast G&P, West, and Gas & NGL Marketing Services segments. The Transmission, Power & Gulf segment comprises Transco, NWP, and Mountain West interstate natural gas pipelines, and their related natural gas storage facilities, as well as natural gas gathering and processing; and crude oil production handling and transportation assets in the Gulf Coast region. The Northeast G&P segment engages in the midstream gathering, processing, and fractionation activities in the Marcellus Shale region primarily in Pennsylvania and New York, and the Utica Shale region of eastern Ohio. The West segment consists of gas gathering, processing, and treating operations in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado and Wyoming, the Barnett Shale region of north-central Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas, the Haynesville Shale region of northwest Louisiana, the Mid-Continent region that includes the Anadarko and Permian basins, and the DJ Basin of Colorado; and operates natural gas liquid (NGL) fractionation and storage assets in central Kansas near Conway. The Gas & NGL Marketing Services segment provides wholesale marketing, trading, storage, and transportation of natural gas for natural gas utilities, municipalities, power generators, and producers; asset management services; and transports and markets NGLs. The company owns and operates approximately 32,000 miles of pipelines. The Williams Companies, Inc. was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Commentary & Analysis

Financial Summary

Share Statistics WMB Industry
Median		 Percentile
(All Stocks)
Market Cap (Mil) $89,584.8 $2,866.8 96%
Shares Out (Mil) 1,225.0 114.5 95%
Institutional Ownership 99.5% 85.9% 89%
Float (Mil) 1,215.8 100.3 93%
Beta 0.61 0.35 36%
Avg Daily Volume (000s) 5,311 495 93%
Price Change
(52-week)		 29.6% 86.4% 68%
Growth WMB Industry
Median		 Percentile
(All Stocks)
Sales (5yr) 8.9% 12.6% 54%
Net Income (5yr) 65.5% 19.1% 96%
EPS (5yr) 66.0% 19.5% 97
Dividends (5yr) 4.6% 0.0% 90%
Cash Flow (5yr) 14.9% 1.1% 72%
Estimates Qtrly Current
Fiscal
Year		 Next
Fiscal
Year
# of Estimates 7 8 8
Current EPS $0.521 $2.460 $2.621
Month Ago EPS $0.549 $2.423 $2.570
# Rev Up 0 1 1
# Rev Down 2 0 0
Three Months Ago EPS $0.555 $2.418 $2.571
Year/Year Chg (22.9%) 15.0% 42.1%
Financials WMB Industry
Median		 Percentile
(All Stocks)
Sales (TTM) (Mil) $12,323 $1,329 86%
Net Income (TTM) (Mil) $3,073 $119 94%
EPS (TTM) $2.512 $0.900 75%
Operating Cash Flow (TTM) (Mil) $5,994 $511 96%
Net Cash Flow (TTM) (Mil) ($700) $8 4%
Long-Term Debt (Q1) (Mil) $28,121 $751 97%
Enterprise Value (Q1) (Mil) $120,272 $3,698 97%
Valuation WMB Industry
Median		 Percentile
(All Stocks)
P/B 6.81 1.87 84%
P/E 29.2 13.2 68%
Dividend Yield 2.9% 2.1% 84%
PEG (5yr hist) 0.4 0.5 21%
Ratios WMB Industry
Median		 Percentile
(All Stocks)
Gross Margin 63.6% 47.9% 76%
Net Margin 24.9% 9.9% 83%
ROA 5.3% 5.0% 73%
ROE 24.0% 11.5% 83%
Liabilities to Assets 74.6% 48.7% 70%
F-Score 6 6 67%

Passing Stock Screens

As of 8/19/2026, from a list of 60 stock screening strategies, WMB meetings the criteria of 1 screen:
Stock Screen
FACTOR STRATEGY

P/E Relative Screen

Factors: Value, Earnings Estimates
A screen that looks at the relationship of a stock's price-earnings ratio to that of the industry and market. 
Performance Since Inception: 13.7%
+/- S&P 500: +6.2

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