Williams Companies, Inc. (The) $WMB Shares Purchased by Drucker Wealth 3.0 LLC

Drucker Wealth 3.0 LLC boosted its position in shares of Williams Companies, Inc. (The) (NYSE:WMB) by 93.5% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 28,797 shares of the pipeline company’s stock after buying an additional 13,917 shares during the period. Drucker Wealth 3.0 LLC’s holdings in Williams Companies were worth $1,824,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in WMB. NEOS Investment Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Williams Companies by 45.4% in the third quarter. NEOS Investment Management LLC now owns 165,469 shares of the pipeline company’s stock valued at $10,482,000 after acquiring an additional 51,633 shares during the period. Wealthcare Advisory Partners LLC raised its position in Williams Companies by 4.9% in the 3rd quarter. Wealthcare Advisory Partners LLC now owns 6,753 shares of the pipeline company’s stock valued at $428,000 after purchasing an additional 316 shares during the last quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC raised its position in Williams Companies by 21.6% in the 3rd quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 11,009 shares of the pipeline company’s stock valued at $697,000 after purchasing an additional 1,956 shares during the last quarter. Glenview Trust Co boosted its stake in Williams Companies by 7.8% during the 3rd quarter. Glenview Trust Co now owns 11,729 shares of the pipeline company’s stock worth $743,000 after purchasing an additional 847 shares during the period. Finally, Texas Yale Capital Corp. grew its position in Williams Companies by 0.8% during the 3rd quarter. Texas Yale Capital Corp. now owns 71,902 shares of the pipeline company’s stock worth $4,555,000 after purchasing an additional 585 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 86.44% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have recently commented on WMB shares. Mizuho raised shares of Williams Companies to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Monday, October 27th. Scotiabank raised Williams Companies from a “sector perform” rating to a “sector outperform” rating and upped their price objective for the company from $66.00 to $84.00 in a research note on Friday, February 13th. Stifel Nicolaus increased their price objective on Williams Companies from $69.00 to $78.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “buy (b)” rating on shares of Williams Companies in a report on Monday, December 29th. Finally, Tudor Pickering raised Williams Companies from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Monday, December 1st. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirteen have issued a Buy rating and four have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Williams Companies has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $75.36.

Williams Companies Stock Performance

Shares of WMB stock opened at $71.87 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 0.53, a quick ratio of 0.48 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.83. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $63.10 and a 200-day simple moving average of $60.99. The company has a market cap of $87.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.58, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.30 and a beta of 0.65. Williams Companies, Inc. has a 12-month low of $51.58 and a 12-month high of $73.04.

Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 10th. The pipeline company reported $0.55 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.57 by ($0.02). Williams Companies had a net margin of 21.90% and a return on equity of 17.32%. The business had revenue of $3.20 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $3.10 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.47 earnings per share. Williams Companies has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.200-2.380 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that Williams Companies, Inc. will post 2.08 EPS for the current year.

Williams Companies Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.525 per share. This is a boost from Williams Companies’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.50. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 13th. This represents a $2.10 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.9%. Williams Companies’s dividend payout ratio is currently 93.46%.

Key Stories Impacting Williams Companies

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

• Positive Sentiment: UBS raised its price target on WMB from $78 to $89 and reiterated a Buy rating, implying ~23.8% upside from the current price — a strong bullish signal that can attract buyers. Benzinga UBS Raise
• Positive Sentiment: Jefferies raised its price target from $78 to $81 and kept a Buy rating, implying ~12.7% upside — another analyst endorsement supporting further upside. Benzinga Jefferies Raise
• Positive Sentiment: Scotiabank upgraded WMB (coverage note) — additional brokerage upgrades increase the probability of fresh buying interest. AmericanBankingNews Upgrade
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst/Investor Day: WMB is guiding to a 10%+ CAGR in adjusted EBITDA through 2030 driven by power and transmission projects, and announced another behind‑the‑meter power project — a strategic growth thrust that supports higher longer‑term earnings power. ETF Trends Analyst Day
• Neutral Sentiment: Seeking Alpha published the investor-day slideshow — useful for investors wanting detail, but informational rather than market-moving by itself. Seeking Alpha Slideshow
• Neutral Sentiment: Media recap: InsiderMonkey noted WMB’s recent 8% weekly surge (Feb 6–13), highlighting recent momentum — reinforces that some of today’s move could be profit‑taking after that run. InsiderMonkey Recap
• Negative Sentiment: Intraday weakness and below-average volume: shares are retreating today after recent gains (volume ~6.8M vs. avg ~8.2M), suggesting short-term profit‑taking or absence of conviction despite the positive analyst headlines.

Insider Activity

In related news, SVP Terrance Lane Wilson sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $66.39, for a total transaction of $132,780.00. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 293,545 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $19,488,452.55. The trade was a 0.68% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. 0.44% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Williams Companies Company 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.