With 6.82 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 7.2 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas Midstream company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $56.35 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $54.85. The 52-week range on WMB shows that it touched its highest point at $61.46 and its lowest point at $32.65 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $59.29. With its current market cap of 67.45 billion, WMB has annualized dividend of $1.90 while the current yield stands at 3.43%. WMB paid its most recent dividend on 1734048000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741910400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.08.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of WMB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -6.54%, but this was up by 2.54% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 5.39% while six-month performance rose 28.88%. The stock gained 58.68% in the past year, while it has gained 2.24% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WMB yields 2.35 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.06. For the next quarter, that number is 0.46. This implies an EPS growth rate of -0.54% for this year and 8.66% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.22 billion WMB shares are outstanding with a float of 1.21 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 17.3 million, which was 141.99999 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Alan S. Armstrong as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. John D. Porter CPA serves as its Senior VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.88414 of WMB’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, WMB reported revenue of $2653000000.0 and operating income of $838000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1582000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.58.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for WMB since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With WMB analysts setting a high price target of 74.0 and a low target of 40.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 56.555. Based on these targets, WMB could surge 33.74% to reach the target high and fall by -27.71% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 2.21% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.96131 being high and $1.76621 being low. For WMB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.8997. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.56 and the low estimate is $0.4. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.51.