Williams Companies is an energy company, providing infrastructure that delivers natural gas products to fuel the clean energy economy. Co.'s segments are: Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, which includes Co.'s subsidiary, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC, an interstate natural gas pipeline that extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the eastern seaboard; Northeast G&P, which is comprised of Co.'s midstream gathering, processing, and fractionation businesses; West, which is comprised of Co.'s gas gathering, processing, and treating operations in the Rocky Mountain region; and Gas and NGL Marketing Services, which includes Co.'s NGL and natural gas marketing and trading operations. The WMB YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the WMB YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether WMB YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the WMB YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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