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

About Williams Companies, Inc. (The)

Williams Companies, Inc. (The) is led by CEO Chad J. Zamarin, employs 5,829 people, headquartered in Tulsa, US, publicly traded since 1981.

Williams Companies, Inc. (The) (WMB) stock trades at $72.67 with a market capitalization of $88.89B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27.48, price-to-book of 6.43, price-to-sales of 6.94. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $56.19 and $80.08, and currently trades 9.3% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 3.03%.

On profitability, Williams Companies, Inc. (The) generates a return on equity (ROE) of 23.86% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 9.10%, an operating margin of 36.83%, a net profit margin of 25.18%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Williams Companies, Inc. (The) reported annual revenue of $11.9B, net profit of $2.6B, revenue has compounded at 9.1% a year over the last five years, profit at 65.5% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.33 — a leveraged balance sheet worth monitoring, a current ratio of 0.83, total assets of $58.6B, $63.0M in cash and equivalents.

WMB has a beta of 0.62 (less volatile than the overall market).