# Williams Companies Inc. (WMB) stock analysis and sentiment

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Last analyzed: Aug 29, 2026

Williams Companies Inc. (WMB) last closed at $73.73, in the upper half of its 52-week range of $56.09–$80.08. Composite market sentiment across 1 analysis is positive (+29 on a −100 to +100 scale), as of Aug 29, 2026.

## What the data says

Williams closed at $73.73, in the upper half of a 52-week range that runs from $56.09 to $80.08. That spread is roughly a quarter of the stock's value from low to high, a relatively contained band for an energy name, and the current price sits about 8% below the top of it while remaining well clear of the bottom — the shape of a stock that has spent the year grinding upward rather than swinging between extremes.

At a market capitalization near $90 billion, the market prices Williams at about 29 times trailing earnings and 28 times forward estimates, and at roughly 6.9 times book value — multiples that are high relative to the company's own reported earnings and well above what a stock growing revenue at about 8% would earn on growth alone. What the figures do show is a genuinely profitable business: a net margin near 25% means about a quarter of revenue reaches the bottom line, which is characteristic of fee-based pipeline infrastructure rather than commodity production. A beta of 0.62 indicates the shares have historically moved with only about six-tenths of the market's amplitude, and the 2.83% dividend yield accounts for a meaningful part of what holders receive.

The recent news flow is notably light on company-specific developments. Most items are sector-level: comparisons of energy and midstream ETFs such as MLPX, XOP, and the Vanguard and Global X funds, monthly net asset value disclosures from the Kayne Anderson Energy Infrastructure Fund, and a regional gas industry conference. Where Williams appears, it is generally inside broader dividend-stock roundups rather than as the subject of the story. In other words, the coverage over the past several months has tracked the midstream and energy-income theme as a whole, with no discrete company events driving the headlines.

## About Williams Companies Inc.

The Williams Companies is an energy infrastructure company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, founded in 1908. It owns and operates roughly 32,000 miles of pipeline, handling natural gas gathering, processing, transmission, and storage across much of the United States. Its best-known asset is the Transco pipeline, which runs from the Gulf Coast to the New York City area; the company also operates the Northwest Pipeline and Mountain West systems.

The business is organized into five segments. Transmission, Power & Gulf covers the interstate pipelines and associated storage, along with gathering, processing, and crude oil production handling in the Gulf Coast region. Northeast G&P handles gathering, processing, and fractionation in the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania and New York and the Utica Shale of eastern Ohio. West spans gathering and processing in the Rocky Mountains, the Barnett, Eagle Ford, and Haynesville shales, the Mid-Continent region including the Anadarko and Permian basins, and the DJ Basin, plus NGL fractionation and storage near Conway, Kansas. Gas & NGL Marketing Services provides wholesale marketing, trading, storage, and transportation of natural gas for utilities, municipalities, power generators, and producers, along with asset management and NGL marketing.

## Company profile

- Symbol: WMB
- Exchange: NYSE
- Security type: Stock
- Sector: Energy
- Industry: Oil & Gas Midstream
- Composite sentiment: positive (29 on a -100 to +100 scale)

## Key statistics

| Metric | Value |
| --- | ---: |
| Market capitalization | $90.18B |
| Enterprise value | $122.99B |
| Trailing P/E | 29.37 |
| Forward P/E | 28.13 |
| Price to book | 6.85 |
| Price to sales | 7.32 |
| Dividend yield | 2.83% |
| Beta | 0.62 |
| Net margin | 24.94% |
| Revenue growth | 7.80% |
| Earnings growth | 51.20% |
| 52-week high | $80.08 |
| 52-week low | $56.09 |
| Average volume | 6.91M |

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## Frequently asked questions

### What is the current market sentiment for WMB?

As of Aug 29, 2026, Williams Companies Inc. (WMB) carries positive (+29 on a −100 to +100 scale) composite sentiment. The score fuses recent news tone, analyst recommendations, technical posture, insider and congressional activity, and market attention into a single figure. The full breakdown of each component is in the report.

### How has WMB stock been performing?

Williams Companies Inc. last closed at $73.73, in the upper half of its 52-week range of $56.09–$80.08.

### What is WMB's market cap and valuation?

Williams Companies Inc. has a market capitalization of about $90.18B, a trailing P/E of 29.4, a dividend yield of 2.83%.

### What sector is WMB in, and who are its competitors?

Williams Companies Inc. operates in the Energy sector, specifically Oil & Gas Midstream. Comparable companies include EPD, ET, KMI, TRGP, MPLX.

### Where can I find a full analysis of WMB?

The full WMB report covers the bull and bear cases, technical signals with entry, stop and target levels, complete financial statements, earnings history, insider and congressional trades, and the conditions that would invalidate the thesis. It requires a free account.

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