WMB — The Williams Companies, Inc.
Energy · Oil & Gas Midstream
About The Williams Companies, Inc.
The Williams Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy infrastructure company primarily in the United States. It operates through Transmission, Power & Gulf, Northeast G&P, West, and Gas & NGL Marketing Services segments. The Transmission, Power & Gulf segment comprises Transco, NWP, and Mountain West interstate natural gas pipelines, and their related natural gas storage facilities, as well as natural gas gathering and processing; and crude oil production handling and transportation assets in the Gulf Coast region. The Northeast G&P segment engages in the midstream gathering, processing, and fractionation activities in the Marcellus Shale region primarily in Pennsylvania and New York, and the Utica Shale region of eastern Ohio. The West segment consists of gas gathering, processing, and treating operations in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado and Wyoming, the Barnett Shale region of north-central Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas, the Haynesville Shale region of northwest Louisiana, the Mid-Continent region that includes the Anadarko and Permian basins, and the DJ Basin of Colorado; and operates natural gas liquid (NGL) fractionation and storage assets in central Kansas near Conway. The Gas & NGL Marketing Services segment provides wholesale marketing, trading, storage, and transportation of natural gas for natural gas utilities, municipalities, power generators, and producers; asset management services; and transports and markets NGLs. The company owns and operates approximately 32,000 miles of pipelines. The Williams Companies, Inc. was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The midstream & LNG industry
Midstream companies own the infrastructure between the wellhead and the customer — pipelines, gathering and processing plants, storage, and export terminals. Most earn fees on volumes moved under long-term contracts, so their cash flow is steadier than the producers they serve, and much of it is paid out as high dividends or distributions (several names here are partnerships with special tax treatment). Cheniere (LNG) is the standout business model: it liquefies US natural gas and ships it abroad under decade-long contracts — a toll road on the global gas trade. The read here is contract quality and payout coverage, not the daily oil price: these are income vehicles first, commodity plays second. Williams runs Transco, the workhorse pipeline moving gas up the US East Coast.
Key data · delayed ~15 min, as of 1 August 2026
| Ticker | WMB |
| Company | The Williams Companies, Inc. |
| Price | $71.54 |
| Market cap | $87.5B |
| Sector / industry | Energy / Oil & Gas Midstream |
| Analyst mean target | $84 (22 analysts, strong_buy) |
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