The Williams Companies, Inc.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $73.73, The Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) is priced for +10.6% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed June 28, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
- Capital is being deployed into contracted power: a 7.3-billion-dollar 2026 growth-capital midpoint and roughly 5.1 billion dollars committed to gas-fired and hybrid plants for data centers, including the 682-megawatt, 12.5-year Neo project and a 400-megawatt Meta-affiliated plant. - The base business set Q1 2026 records: adjusted EBITDA up 13 percent to 2.254 billion dollars and adjusted EPS up 22 percent, anchored by the Transco pipeline and roughly 188 Bcf of storage capacity (FY2025 10-K, a
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1,763 institutional managers reported holding WMB in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 84% of the company; the top 10 hold 42%. 208 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 23.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (4.1 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
WMB's share count grew 0.6% over the past five years even with $139.00M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 16 years running, raised 6 years straight; the current rate is $2.00 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $6.49B in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at WMB over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 25 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
WMB's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-03 | +1.0% | -3.1% |
| 2023-11-02 | +4.0% | +0.1% |
| 2024-02-22 | +0.4% | +13.0% |
| 2024-05-07 | +1.1% | +8.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
WMB's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-21 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-08-03 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-07-13 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-01 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-20 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: June 28, 2026
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