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Williams Companies, Inc. (The)

WMB · NYSE

Analyst Consensus

Buy

22 analysts

$72

Current

—

Low

$84

Average

—

High

Average target implies +17.41% versus the current price.

Analyst Ratings Synthesis

Consensus is Buy across 22 analysts, with a mean price target of $84. The supplied data do not provide low or high targets, so target clustering, the width of the range, and the identities of the most and least bullish analysts cannot be established. No attributable analyst rating or price-target revisions were supplied during the week. The substantive disagreement visible in the evidence is between Williams’s year-over-year financial growth and its second-quarter miss: Zacks reported revenue and EPS surprises of negative 1.00% and negative 3.85%, while the fiscal-year figures show higher revenue and net income. The evidence does not identify how individual analysts weigh the Momentum Midstream acquisition or the quarterly shortfall.

Rating Actions

No individual rating actions have been captured for WMByet. Consensus figures above come from Nasdaq's aggregate feed.

Rating actions are extracted from published reporting. Each row links to its source.

Research Reports

Links to freely available third-party research. Outlook labels are our classification of each article's stance, not a rating of our own.

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Symbol: WMB
Type: Stock
Sector: Utilities
Industry: Natural Gas Distribution
Exchange: NYSE

Williams (NYSE: WMB) is a trusted energy industry leader committed to safely, reliably and responsibly meeting growing energy demand. We use our infrastructure to deliver one third of the nation's natural gas to where it's needed most, supplying the energy used to heat our homes, cook our food and generate low-carbon electricity. For over a century, we've been driven by a passion for doing things the right way. Today, our team of problem solvers is leading the charge into the clean energy future. Learn more at www.williams.com.

Key Issues

Bullish view

Buying Momentum Midstream for up to $5.5 billion could expand Williams’s midstream platform and add assets that support future earnings growth.

Bearish view

The transaction’s size creates execution and financing risk, while the supplied evidence does not disclose Momentum’s financial contribution or expected synergies.

Analyst Consensus

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Buy

22 analysts

$72

Current

—

Low

$84

Average

—

High

Average target implies +17.41% versus the current price.

Earnings History

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Williams Companies, Inc. (The)

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