Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Monday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.850-2.100 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 2.080. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Williams Companies also updated its FY 2024 guidance to 1.650-1.860 EPS.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of research analysts recently weighed in on WMB shares. Royal Bank of Canada raised their target price on shares of Williams Companies from $40.00 to $44.00 and gave the company an outperform rating in a report on Thursday, June 13th. UBS Group upped their target price on shares of Williams Companies from $43.00 to $47.00 and gave the company a buy rating in a research report on Friday, April 12th. Argus raised Williams Companies from a hold rating to a buy rating in a research note on Thursday, June 20th. Scotiabank raised their price objective on Williams Companies from $40.00 to $43.00 and gave the company a sector perform rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 17th. Finally, Morgan Stanley boosted their target price on Williams Companies from $45.00 to $48.00 and gave the company an equal weight rating in a research report on Monday, June 10th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating and seven have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of Hold and an average target price of $42.08.

Williams Companies Trading Down 2.3 %

WMB stock traded down $0.96 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $41.24. The company had a trading volume of 7,766,237 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,597,200. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $42.18 and a 200 day moving average of $38.96. The company has a market capitalization of $50.26 billion, a PE ratio of 17.29, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 6.62 and a beta of 1.05. Williams Companies has a 12 month low of $32.49 and a 12 month high of $45.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.62, a current ratio of 0.52 and a quick ratio of 0.48.

Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, August 5th. The pipeline company reported $0.43 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.38 by $0.05. Williams Companies had a return on equity of 16.27% and a net margin of 27.29%. The firm had revenue of $2.34 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.46 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.42 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was down 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities analysts predict that Williams Companies will post 1.85 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Williams Companies Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, September 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 13th will be given a $0.475 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, September 13th. This represents a $1.90 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.61%. Williams Companies’s payout ratio is presently 79.83%.

Insider Activity

In other news, SVP Debbie L. Pickle sold 38,200 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $39.61, for a total value of $1,513,102.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president now directly owns 60,410 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,392,840.10. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Insiders own 0.44% of the company’s stock.

About Williams Companies

The Williams Companies, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy infrastructure company primarily in the United States. It operates through Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, Northeast G&P, West, and Gas & NGL Marketing Services segments. The Transmission & Gulf of Mexico segment comprises natural gas pipelines; Transco, Northwest pipeline, MountainWest, and related natural gas storage facilities; and natural gas gathering and processing, and crude oil production handling and transportation assets in the Gulf Coast region.