Williams Companies and Energy Transfer Equity have announced a merger transaction valued at more than $37 billion in cash and stock, including debt.
Paul Ausick Many companies are still hiking dividends and announcing large share buyback plans. These are the two top methods of returning capital to shareholders.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Apple, Bank of America, BP, First Solar, Fitbit, Seagate, SunEdison and Western Digital.
Is this another David versus Goliath story? Spectra Energy reportedly is preparing an offer to acquire much larger Williams Companies.
This past week brought some very big calls from Wall Street analysts in the oil patch and energy sector.
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Annaly Capital Management, Gap, Google, Johnson Controls, Symantec, Williams Companies and Yelp.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Boeing, EMC, Hertz, Qualcomm, SanDisk, Twitter and XOMA.
24/7 Wall St. has examined some of the top stocks in the S&P 500 in June, and added some background information and color.
Facebook and Williams Companies were among S&P 500 stocks that made significant moves this past week.
Williams Companies has picked up two downgrades from analysts following its rejection of a buyout offer from peer Energy Transfer Equity.
Paul Ausick One part of the rejected $53 billion offer for Williams Companies from natural gas pipeline MLP Energy Transfer Equity that may turn out worse for investors than the rejection itself is the…
ThinkstockBarely a month after announcing a major acquisition of its own, The Williams Companies Inc. (NYSE: WMB) has rejected an all-equity buyout made from Energy Transfer Equity LP (NYSE: ETE) valued at…
Independent oil and gas producer Hess says it had sold a 50% stake it its midstream assets in the Bakken shale play to Global Infrastructure Partners.
Energy infrastructure giant Williams Companies will acquire all the outstanding common units of Williams Partners in an all-stock-for-unit transaction.
What stood out in this weekend's review of the top analyst calls was that large-cap oil and gas stocks with above market returns were being called for.
