The Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) Stock

About The Williams Companies, Inc.

The Williams Companies, Inc., alongside its subsidiaries, operates as a prominent energy infrastructure entity, primarily conducting business throughout the United States. The company’s operations are organized into four key segments: Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, Northeast G&P, West, and Gas & NGL Marketing Services. The Transmission & Gulf of Mexico division manages crucial natural gas pipelines such as Transco and Northwest, in addition to natural gas gathering and processing, and crude oil production handling and transportation assets situated in the Gulf Coast. This segment also oversees various petrochemical and feedstock pipelines. Focusing on midstream activities, the Northeast G&P segment handles gathering, processing, and fractionation within the Marcellus Shale region, predominantly in Pennsylvania and New York, and the Utica Shale region of eastern Ohio. The West segment delivers gas gathering, processing, and treating services across the Rocky Mountain areas of Colorado and Wyoming, the Barnett Shale in north-central Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, the Haynesville Shale in northwest Louisiana, and the expansive Mid-Continent region (including the Anadarko, Arkoma, and Permian basins). This segment also operates natural gas liquid (NGL) fractionation and storage facilities located near Conway in central Kansas. The Gas & NGL Marketing Services segment provides comprehensive wholesale marketing, trading, storage, and transportation of natural gas to utilities, municipalities, power generators, and producers, while also offering risk and asset management and NGL marketing services. The company possesses and operates an extensive network, including 30,000 miles of pipelines, 29 processing facilities, 7 fractionation facilities, and an approximate NGL storage capacity of 23 million barrels. The Williams Companies, Inc. was established in 1908 and maintains its headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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

The Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) stock trades at $70.13 with a market capitalization of $85.77B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 34.18, price-to-book of 7.46, price-to-sales of 7.99. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $55.82 and $80.08, and currently trades 12.4% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.63%.

On profitability, The Williams Companies, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 19.66%, above the typical market average, return on capital employed of 29.35%, an operating margin of 36.83%, a net profit margin of 23.82%.

In its most recent fiscal year, The Williams Companies, Inc. 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 an average daily trading volume of 7,060,031 shares, a beta of 0.60 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.williams.com