Williams Companies is an oil & gas midstream business based in the US. Williams Companies shares (WMB) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Williams Companies employs 5,601 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $10.2 billion.
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| Latest market close | $41.82 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $31.30 - $45.10 |
| 50-day moving average | $41.89 |
| 200-day moving average | $37.55 |
| Wall St. target price | $43.85 |
| PE ratio | 17.1393 |
| Dividend yield | $1.818 (4.54%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.44 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $41.82 from 2024-07-25
| 1 week (2024-07-19) | -4.95% |
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| 1 month (2024-06-26) | -1.11% |
| 3 months (2024-04-26) | 6.52% |
| 6 months (2024-01-26) | 19.93% |
| 1 year (2023-07-26) | 22.75% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-07-26) | 24.69% |
| 3 years (2021-07-26) | 63.42% |
| 5 years (2019-07-26) | 92.59% |
Valuing Williams Companies stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Williams Companies's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Williams Companies's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 17x. In other words, Williams Companies shares trade at around 17x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Williams Companies's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 9.1386. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Williams Companies's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Williams Companies's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $6 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Williams Companies's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $10.2 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 36.8% |
| Gross profit TTM | $6.1 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 4.76% |
| Return on equity TTM | 21.23% |
| Profit margin | 28.4% |
| Book value | $10.18 |
| Market Capitalization | $51 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 92.25% of net profits
Recently Williams Companies has paid out, on average, around 92.25% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 4.54% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Williams Companies shareholders could enjoy a 4.54% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Williams Companies's case, that would currently equate to about $1.818 per share.
Williams Companies's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
Williams Companies's most recent dividend payout was on 23 June 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 6 June 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Williams Companies's shares were split on a 10000:8152 basis on 2 January 2012. So if you had owned 8152 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 10000 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Williams Companies shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 18.5% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Williams Companies shares which in turn could have impacted Williams Companies's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Williams Companies's shares have ranged in value from as little as $31.304 up to $45.1. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Williams Companies's is 1.08. This would suggest that Williams Companies's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
The Williams Companies, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy infrastructure company primarily in the United States. It operates through Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, Northeast G&P, West, and Gas & NGL Marketing Services segments. The Transmission & Gulf of Mexico segment comprises natural gas pipelines; Transco, Northwest pipeline, MountainWest, and related natural gas storage facilities; and 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 facilities 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.
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