Currently, there are 1.22B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.22B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -8.15% and 5.72% over the past three months. WMB shares are trading 34.79% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 6.60% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $40.41 and touched a high of $63.45 over the same period. WMB has an average intraday trading volume of 7.91 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -3.73%, -3.04%, and 2.60% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Williams Cos Inc (NYSE: WMB) shares accounts for 88.17% of the company’s 1.22B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $70.44B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.70. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 30.95, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.86. The company has a PEG of 2.47 and a Quick Ratio of 0.36 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.20. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.38% over the week and 2.49% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 12.55%, and 12.09% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 12.54% over the next five years, compared to 21.10% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the WMB, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. TD Cowen stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on July 07, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $67. Scotiabank was of a view on January 10, 2025 that the stock is Sector Perform, while BofA Securities gave the stock Buy rating on October 17, 2024, issuing a price target of $55. Morgan Stanley on their part issued Overweight rating on October 04, 2024.
