Williams Companies (WMB) – Investment Analysts’ Weekly Ratings Changes

A number of research firms have changed their ratings and price targets for Williams Companies (NYSE: WMB):

• 8/18/2026 – Williams Companies had its price target raised by Morgan Stanley from $99.00 to $103.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
• 8/12/2026 – Williams Companies had its price target raised by Truist Financial Corporation from $84.00 to $88.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 8/10/2026 – Williams Companies had its price target raised by Royal Bank Of Canada from $83.00 to $87.00. They now have an “outperform” rating on the stock.
• 8/8/2026 – Williams Companies was downgraded by Wall Street Zen from “hold” to “sell”.
• 8/5/2026 – Williams Companies had its price target raised by Wells Fargo & Company from $89.00 to $90.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
• 7/18/2026 – Williams Companies was upgraded by Wall Street Zen from “sell” to “hold”.
• 7/14/2026 – Williams Companies had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by UBS Group AG.
• 7/14/2026 – Williams Companies had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.. They now have a $82.00 price target on the stock.
• 7/14/2026 – Williams Companies had its price target raised by Morgan Stanley from $98.00 to $99.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
• 7/8/2026 – Williams Companies had its price target raised by Barclays PLC from $73.00 to $75.00. They now have an “equal weight” rating on the stock.
• 7/4/2026 – Williams Companies was downgraded by Wall Street Zen from “hold” to “sell”.
• 7/1/2026 – Williams Companies had its price target raised by JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $88.00 to $89.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
• 7/1/2026 – Williams Companies had its price target lowered by Jefferies Financial Group Inc. from $87.00 to $85.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.

Williams Companies Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, September 28th. Investors of record on Friday, September 11th will be paid 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 3.0%. Williams Companies’s payout ratio is currently 83.67%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, SVP Terrance Lane Wilson sold 13,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $74.87, for a total transaction of $973,310.00. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 268,159 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $20,077,064.33. This represents a 4.62% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 17,000 shares of company stock worth $1,262,930. Corporate insiders own 0.47% of the company’s stock.

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.