UBS Group Issues Positive Forecast for Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) Stock Price

Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) had its price objective raised by UBS Group from $78.00 to $89.00 in a report published on Tuesday morning,Benzinga reports. UBS Group currently has a buy rating on the pipeline company’s stock.

Several other equities research analysts also recently issued reports on the stock. TD Cowen raised their price objective on shares of Williams Companies from $69.00 to $70.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 6th. BMO Capital Markets lowered their target price on Williams Companies from $72.00 to $70.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, November 5th. Mizuho upgraded Williams Companies to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Monday, October 27th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “buy (b)” rating on shares of Williams Companies in a report on Monday, December 29th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company lifted their target price on Williams Companies from $71.00 to $80.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 11th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirteen have given a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $75.36.

Williams Companies Price Performance

NYSE:WMB opened at $71.87 on Tuesday. Williams Companies has a one year low of $51.58 and a one year high of $73.04. The company has a market cap of $87.77 billion, a P/E ratio of 33.58, a P/E/G ratio of 1.30 and a beta of 0.65. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $63.10 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $60.99. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.83, a current ratio of 0.53 and a quick ratio of 0.48.

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

Williams Companies Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 30th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 13th will be given a dividend of $0.525 per share. This is an increase from Williams Companies’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.50. This represents a $2.10 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.9%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 13th. Williams Companies’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 93.46%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, SVP Terrance Lane Wilson sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, February 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $66.39, for a total transaction of $132,780.00. Following the completion of the transaction, 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 position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. 0.44% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. grew its position in Williams Companies by 3.1% during the third quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 4,540,556 shares of the pipeline company’s stock valued at $287,644,000 after buying an additional 134,777 shares during the period. World Investment Advisors boosted its stake in Williams Companies by 185.6% in the third quarter. World Investment Advisors now owns 43,069 shares of the pipeline company’s stock valued at $2,728,000 after acquiring an additional 27,987 shares during the last quarter. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. grew its position in shares of Williams Companies by 9.5% during the 3rd quarter. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. now owns 184,123 shares of the pipeline company’s stock valued at $11,664,000 after acquiring an additional 16,027 shares during the period. Compass Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Williams Companies by 75.9% during the 3rd quarter. Compass Wealth Management LLC now owns 125,290 shares of the pipeline company’s stock worth $7,937,000 after purchasing an additional 54,057 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Nordea Investment Management AB raised its holdings in shares of Williams Companies by 11.3% in the 3rd quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 1,740,024 shares of the pipeline company’s stock worth $110,126,000 after purchasing an additional 176,880 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 86.44% of the company’s stock.

Key Williams Companies News

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.

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.