Rational Advisors Inc. Sells 29,400 Shares of Williams Companies, Inc. (The) $WMB

Rational Advisors Inc. lessened its holdings in Williams Companies, Inc. (The) (NYSE:WMB) by 90.3% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 3,141 shares of the pipeline company’s stock after selling 29,400 shares during the quarter. Rational Advisors Inc.’s holdings in Williams Companies were worth $234,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Main Street Group LTD bought a new position in shares of Williams Companies during the 1st quarter worth about $26,000. Motiv8 Investments LLC bought a new stake in Williams Companies in the fourth quarter valued at about $27,000. Allied Private Wealth LLC acquired a new position in Williams Companies in the second quarter worth about $28,000. Bayforest Capital Ltd bought a new position in Williams Companies during the second quarter worth about $28,000. Finally, Clearstead Trust LLC boosted its holdings in Williams Companies by 62.2% during the fourth quarter. Clearstead Trust LLC now owns 485 shares of the pipeline company’s stock valued at $29,000 after purchasing an additional 186 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 86.44% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages recently commented on WMB. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price target on Williams Companies from $88.00 to $89.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 1st. The Goldman Sachs Group reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $82.00 target price on shares of Williams Companies in a research report on Tuesday, July 14th. Wall Street Zen lowered shares of Williams Companies from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Saturday, August 8th. TD Cowen boosted their target price on Williams Companies from $81.00 to $87.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce raised their price target on Williams Companies from $83.00 to $85.00 and gave the company an “outperformer” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifteen have assigned a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $85.60.

Insider Transactions at Williams Companies

In other Williams Companies news, SVP Terrance Lane Wilson sold 13,000 shares of the 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 transaction, the senior vice president directly owned 268,159 shares in the company, valued at approximately $20,077,064.33. This trade represents a 4.62% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 17,000 shares of company stock worth $1,262,930. 0.47% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Williams Companies Trading Down 0.6%

WMB opened at $73.75 on Friday. Williams Companies, Inc. has a 1-year low of $56.08 and a 1-year high of $80.07. The stock has a market capitalization of $90.21 billion, a PE ratio of 29.38, a PEG ratio of 1.54 and a beta of 0.58. The company has a current ratio of 0.48, a quick ratio of 0.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.83. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $73.46 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $73.33.

Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) last announced its earnings results on Monday, August 3rd. The pipeline company reported $0.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.50. Williams Companies had a net margin of 25.17% and a return on equity of 18.49%. The company had revenue of $3.05 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.83 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.46 earnings per share. Williams Companies’s quarterly revenue was up 9.8% on a year-over-year basis. Williams Companies has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.350-2.350 EPS. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that Williams Companies, Inc. will post 2.45 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Williams Companies Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, September 28th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 11th will be issued a dividend of $0.525 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, September 11th. This represents a $2.10 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.8%. Williams Companies’s dividend payout ratio is currently 83.67%.

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.