How The Williams Companies, Inc. stacks up

WMB · against 31 other Energy companies of similar size

Profitability

70/ 100

Above the middle of the pack.

Ranked #16 of 32 · scores higher than 52% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

5 peers with a profitability score of 70–79, including WMB · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 70?

Weighted metrics compared with all Energy companies.

Mainly thanks to its operating margin, which is stronger than most Energy peers.

Return on invested capital is close to the peer norm. Return on invested capital: 8.4% vs peer median 9.3%
Return on assets is close to the peer norm. Return on assets: 5.1% vs peer median 4.4%
a wider operating margin: stronger than 89% of peers. Operating margin: 38.2% vs peer median 11.7%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = WMB, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	WMB	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 31 reported	8.4%	13.4%	30%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 32 reported	38.2%	18.0%	90%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 32 reported	5.1%	6.2%	32%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 32 reported	21.5%	16.6%	68%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 32 reported	63.6%	40.0%	87%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around WMB

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	CNOOC Limited0883.HK · Hong Kong	1.14T HKD (≈$146.3B)	93	79
2	China Shenhua Energy Company Limited1088.HK · Hong Kong	934.4B HKD (≈$119.6B)	92	58
3	Canadian Natural Resources LimitedCNQ · US-listed	110.5B USD	90	61
3	EOG Resources, Inc.EOG · US-listed	81.4B USD	90	78
5	MPLX LPMPLX · US-listed	58.3B USD	88	51
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12	Marathon Petroleum CorporationMPC · US-listed	120.0B USD	78	62
13	Cenovus Energy Inc.CVE · US-listed	56.7B USD	77	57
14	ConocoPhillipsCOP · US-listed	173.5B USD	71	65
14	Targa Resources Corp.TRGP · US-listed	64.0B USD	71	37
16	The Williams Companies, Inc.WMB · US-listed	88.6B USD	70	40
17	Occidental Petroleum CorporationOXY · US-listed	60.4B USD	67	77
18	Phillips 66PSX · US-listed	109.0B USD	64	58
19	Imperial Oil LimitedIMO · US-listed	66.8B USD	60	49
20	Devon Energy CorporationDVN · US-listed	52.4B USD	59	57

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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