Danske Bank A S Buys Shares of 55,628 Williams Companies, Inc. (The) $WMB

Danske Bank A S purchased a new position in shares of Williams Companies, Inc. (The) (NYSE:WMB) in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor purchased 55,628 shares of the pipeline company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,135,000.

Other large investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. Main Street Group LTD bought a new position in Williams Companies in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Allied Private Wealth LLC bought a new stake in Williams Companies during the 2nd quarter worth $28,000. Bayforest Capital Ltd bought a new stake in Williams Companies during the 2nd quarter worth $28,000. Frazier Financial Advisors LLC increased its holdings in Williams Companies by 59.4% in the 1st quarter. Frazier Financial Advisors LLC now owns 416 shares of the pipeline company’s stock worth $30,000 after purchasing an additional 155 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Motiv8 Investments LLC bought a new position in Williams Companies in the fourth quarter valued at about $27,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 86.44% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at Williams Companies

In other Williams Companies news, SVP Terrance Lane Wilson sold 13,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, August 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $74.87, for a total value of $973,310.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president owned 268,159 shares in the company, valued at $20,077,064.33. This represents a 4.62% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 17,000 shares of company stock valued at $1,262,930. 0.47% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Key Stories Impacting Williams Companies

Here are the key news stories impacting Williams Companies this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Morgan Stanley raised its price target for Williams Companies to $103, signaling substantial potential upside from recent trading levels and providing a constructive counterpoint to the earnings estimate cuts. Morgan Stanley Increases Williams Companies Price Target to $103
• Neutral Sentiment: The company’s latest reported quarter was solid: Williams earned $0.50 per share, matching consensus, while revenue of $3.05 billion exceeded expectations and increased 9.8% year over year. Its fee-based pipeline operations provide relatively stable cash flows.
• Negative Sentiment: US Capital Advisors lowered its EPS forecasts across several periods, including fourth-quarter 2026 EPS to $0.57 from $0.60, first-quarter 2027 EPS to $0.55 from $0.59, second-quarter 2027 EPS to $0.40 from $0.48, and third-quarter 2027 EPS to $0.50 from $0.55.
• Negative Sentiment: The firm also reduced its full-year 2027 EPS estimate to $2.07 from $2.28 and its 2028 forecast to $2.67 from $2.86. These revisions suggest analysts see weaker near- to medium-term earnings growth than previously expected and are likely the main reason the stock has decreased.

Williams Companies Trading Down 1.4%

Shares of WMB stock opened at $70.71 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.83, a quick ratio of 0.43 and a current ratio of 0.48. The company has a market capitalization of $86.49 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.17, a PEG ratio of 1.48 and a beta of 0.58. Williams Companies, Inc. has a 52-week low of $56.08 and a 52-week high of $80.07. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $73.38 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $73.13.

Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) last announced its earnings results on Monday, August 3rd. The pipeline company reported $0.50 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.50. The firm had revenue of $3.05 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.83 billion. Williams Companies had a return on equity of 18.49% and a net margin of 25.17%.The company’s revenue was up 9.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.46 EPS. Williams Companies has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.350-2.350 EPS. Research analysts anticipate that Williams Companies, Inc. will post 2.48 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Williams Companies Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, September 28th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 11th will be given a $0.525 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, September 11th. This represents a $2.10 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.0%. Williams Companies’s payout ratio is currently 83.67%.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research analysts have recently issued reports on WMB shares. Barclays upped their price objective on Williams Companies from $73.00 to $75.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 8th. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on shares of Williams Companies from $99.00 to $103.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Wells Fargo & Company raised their target price on Williams Companies from $89.00 to $90.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 5th. UBS Group reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Williams Companies in a research note on Tuesday, July 14th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus upped their target price on Williams Companies from $78.00 to $83.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifteen have issued a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $85.60.

Williams Companies Profile

Williams Companies, Inc (NYSE: WMB) is a U.S.-based energy infrastructure company focused on the midstream segment of the natural gas value chain. The company develops, owns and operates assets that gather, process, transport and store natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs). Its operations support the movement of gas from production areas to end users including utilities, power generators, industrial customers and export facilities.

Williams’s product and service offering includes interstate and intrastate pipeline transmission, gas-gathering systems, processing facilities that remove impurities and separate NGLs, storage services and fractionation and transportation of NGL products.