Williams Companies Inc
Williams Companies Inc (WMB) is listed on NYSE and classified in Oil & Gas Midstream, part of the Energy sector. It is headquartered in Tulsa, United States and has 5,987 employees. The company is worth $86.39B and trades at 28.9x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 14.7x. Revenue was $11.95B in fiscal 2025, up 13.8% from the year before. Net income was $2.62B. The share price is 11.8% below its 52-week high of $80.08. It pays a dividend yielding 2.97%, and has raised its annual dividend for 8 years in a row in our records. 7 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $194.93M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $135.7K of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +166.1% over 5Y.
today you would have $3,161.16▲ +216.1%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $60.11 | $54.12 | $34.83 | $32.90 | $26.04 | $20.05 | $23.72 | $22.05 | $30.49 | $31.14 | $25.70 | $44.94 | $38.57 | $32.74 | $26.92 | $20.15 | $17.18 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 3.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 14.7 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 23.9 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Sector median of 8.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 5.8% a year against a 7.3% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Energy, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EEni Spa | $59.53 | 20.6x | 1.7x | 4.10% | 10.90% | $85.24B |
| EOGEOG Resources Inc | $157.96 | 12.3x | 2.6x | 2.58% | 22.51% | $82.85B |
| SUSuncor Energy Inc | $77.41 | 14.6x | 2.6x | 2.20% | 19.25% | $91.4B |
| EPDEnterprise Products Partners L.p | $36.52 |
| $11.80 |
| $29.17 |
| P/E | 23.9x | 28.1x | 29.7x | 13.4x | 19.7x | 21.0x | 117.9x | 33.9x | — | 11.6x | — | — | 15.4x | 62.2x | 23.9x | 42.7x | — | 35.1x | 6.0x | 22.0x |
| P/S | 3.1x | 6.1x | 6.3x | 3.9x | 3.7x | 3.0x | 3.2x | 3.5x | 3.1x | 3.1x | 3.4x | 2.6x | 4.4x | 3.8x | 3.0x | 2.0x | 2.2x | 2.3x | 0.7x | 2.1x |
| P/B | 3.1x | 5.7x | 5.3x | 3.4x | 3.5x | 2.8x | 2.1x | 2.2x | 1.8x | 2.6x | 5.5x | 3.1x | 3.8x | 5.4x | 4.7x | 12.3x | 2.1x | 1.5x | 1.0x | 2.8x |
| EPS | $2.14 | $1.82 | $2.60 | $1.67 | $1.24 | $0.17 | $0.70 | -$0.16 | $2.62 | -$0.57 | -$0.76 | $2.92 | $0.62 | $1.37 | $0.63 | -$1.86 | $0.49 | $1.96 | $1.33 |
| Dividend yield | 3.94% | 3.33% | 3.51% | 5.14% | 5.17% | 6.30% | 7.98% | 6.41% | 6.17% | 3.94% | 5.39% | 9.53% | 4.36% | 3.73% | 3.66% | 2.35% | 1.96% | 2.09% | 2.97% | 1.09% |
| Payout | 93.46% | 93.46% | 104.40% | 68.92% | 101.80% | 132.26% | 941.18% | 217.14% | — | 45.80% | — | — | 67.05% | 231.77% | 87.37% | 100.28% | — | 73.20% | 17.92% | 23.93% |
| Profit margin | 10.36% | 21.91% | 21.18% | 29.15% | 18.69% | 14.27% | 2.73% | 10.36% | -1.78% | 27.07% | -5.65% | -7.76% | 27.68% | 6.27% | 11.47% | 4.74% | -16.53% | 5.40% | 11.93% | 9.67% |
| ROE | 13.28% | 20.44% | 17.89% | 25.63% | 17.84% | 13.28% | 1.79% | 6.36% | -1.06% | 22.51% | -9.13% | -9.29% | 24.09% | 8.84% | 18.08% | 29.01% | -16.13% | 3.37% | 16.80% | 12.68% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-1.7% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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