The Williams Companies WMB, a leading energy infrastructure firm in North America, has been riding high in the past year. The stock has surged more than 61% during this period, outperforming the S&P 500 and its midstream competitors like TC Energy TRP and Kinder Morgan KMI.

Buying $1000 In WMB: If an investor had bought $1000 of WMB stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $2,871.43 today based on a price of $56.28 for WMB at the time of writing.

Williams said it plans to spend ~$1.6B to provide onsite natural gas and power generation infrastructure for an unnamed company.