Key Focus for Williams Investors – What You Need to Know

By Blake Campbell • Monday, June 24 15:12 • Permanent Link

Shares of Oil & Gas Transportation and Processing company Williams jumped 2.3% today. With many investors piling into WMB without a second thought, it may be a good idea to take a closer look at the stock. Here are some quick facts to get you started:

Williams has moved 35.4% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 26.2%
WMB has an average analyst rating of buy and is 2.72% away from its mean target price of $41.89 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.44
Williams has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 17.6 while the S&P 500 average is 27.65
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.06 and its forward P/E ratio is 20.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 4.23 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.59
Williams is part of the Utilities sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.35 and an average P/B of 2.27
WMB has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -31.8% and gross profit margins of 0.6%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.39 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
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. The Northeast G&P segment engages in the midstream gathering, processing, and fractionation activities in the Marcellus Shale region primarily in Pennsylvania and New York, and the Utica Shale region of eastern Ohio. The West segment consists of gas gathering, processing, and treating operations in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado and Wyoming, the Barnett Shale region of north-central Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas, the Haynesville Shale region of northwest Louisiana, the Mid-Continent region that includes the Anadarko and Permian basins, and the DJ Basin of Colorado; and operates natural gas liquid (NGL) fractionation and storage facilities in central Kansas near Conway. The Gas & NGL Marketing Services segment provides wholesale marketing, trading, storage, and transportation of natural gas for natural gas utilities, municipalities, power generators, and producers; asset management services; and transports and markets NGLs. The company owns and operates 33,000 miles of pipelines. The Williams Companies, Inc. was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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