WSM · NYSE · CIK 0000719955
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
No equity stake in another company appears in Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s filings. That is the sourced answer, not a hole in the research.
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. - Profile
- Sector
- Consumer DiscretionaryGICS
- Industry
- Retail-Home Furniture, Furnishings & Equipment StoresSIC 5700
- Listed on
- NYSE
- Employees
- 19,800stated 2026
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Financial year ends
- 31 January
Source
Address, industry classification, listing and incorporation come from Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s own SEC filer record, so the industry is the SEC's dry classification rather than a marketing label. The website was checked for this site against the company's own pages. The headcount is the figure the sources below state for 2026. The description was written for this site in August 2026 from Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal year ended February 1, 2026 and Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (Wikipedia), not taken from any single article.
Share price
WSM
Description
Williams-Sonoma is a multi brand home retailer selling cookware, furniture and home furnishings through e-commerce sites, direct mail catalogs, retail stores and a business to business channel. Its brands are Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn (the largest), Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Williams Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, Mark and Graham and GreenRow. Net revenues for the fiscal year ended 1 February 2026 were $7.81 billion, up 1.2 percent on the prior year, with about 65 percent generated by e-commerce and about 35 percent by stores, and diluted earnings per share of $8.84. At year end the company ran 506 stores, 473 of them in the United States, Washington DC and Puerto Rico, plus 90 franchised locations in Mexico, South Korea, India and the Philippines. The business began in 1956 when Chuck Williams opened a store in Sonoma, California to sell French cookware, and it employed about 19,800 associates at the close of fiscal 2025.
Who owns Williams-Sonoma, Inc..
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The full register, from 13F filings
The Register tab above is hand research: a dozen holders, each traced to the filing it came from. This asks the same question of the whole market for the quarter ended 31-mar-2026, where 915 managers reported a position. Broad where the research is deep, and shallow in the ways a 13F always is.
915 managers reported a position, together holding 111.7m shares, or 94.9% of the company. The 40 largest are listed. Percentages are of the 117.7m shares outstanding at 17 May 2026, the count in force when this quarter was measured rather than the count today.
Built from 13F filings, which report US listed, long, US custodied positions only. A register from this source is a floor rather than a level: a holder's true position can be far larger, as BlackRock's ASML stake shows at 1.28m shares in a 13F against 26.3m in its 13G/A. Holdings held through derivatives, outside US custody, or below a manager's reporting obligation do not appear. Where a holder is marked as a family, its total sums several separate filing entities and describes something no single filing describes; the constituent entities and their share counts are listed so the total can be checked. That roll-up can legitimately exceed the family's own Schedule 13G, because a 13G is filed by one legal entity: Vanguard reports Alphabet through ten advisory entities, and The Vanguard Group Inc itself reported zero after its January 2026 disaggregation.
What a reader needs to know to read these numbers
- STOCK SPLIT: confirmed from the 10-Q for the quarter ended 28 Jul 2024 (filed 23 Aug 2024): 'On July 9, 2024, the Company effected a 2-for-1 stock split of its common stock through a stock dividend.' Cross-checked against SEC XBRL dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding history, which jumps from 64,308,083 (19 May 2024, pre-split) to 126,339,342 (18 Aug 2024, post-split), roughly doubling. No further split has occurred since: the share count only declines steadily afterward (126.3m -> 117.7m) from buybacks, with no further doubling. Every share count in this file (company.shares_outstanding and every register row) is on the POST-split basis.
- shares_outstanding = 117,746,611 as of 17 May 2026, taken from the cover page (dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding) of the 10-Q for the quarter ended 3 May 2026 (filed 22 May 2026, accession 0000719955-26-000131). This is the newest filing on EDGAR as of this research (19 Aug 2026): no later 10-Q or 10-K exists (WSM's fiscal year ends late Jan/early Feb, and the 10-K for FY2025 (period 1 Feb 2026) was filed 26 Mar 2026, older than the 22 May 2026 10-Q).
- HOLDINGS SIDE IS EMPTY. Searched the newest 10-K (period 1 Feb 2026, filed 26 Mar 2026, accession 0000719955-26-000059) for 'equity method', 'unconsolidated', 'joint venture', 'non-marketable', 'minority interest': zero hits on every term. 'equity securities' only matched the ITEM 5 heading (issuer purchases of equity securities), not an investment. Searched the newest 10-Q (period 3 May 2026) for the same terms: zero hits on 'equity method', 'unconsolidated', 'joint venture', 'non-marketable', 'minority interest'. 'investments in'/'investment in' matched only capex language (technology, retail stores, supply chain), not equity stakes. Checked Exhibit 21.1 of the 10-K (list of subsidiaries): it is a bare name list with columns for Subsidiary Name and Jurisdiction/Date of Incorporation only, no ownership-percentage column, and every entry (Williams-Sonoma Stores Inc, Williams-Sonoma Direct Inc, Williams-Sonoma DTC Inc, Williams-Sonoma Singapore Pte Ltd) is a wholly-owned operating subsidiary, not a JV or minority stake. This is a genuine negative, consistent with the brief's warning that a bare Exhibit 21 name list with no percentage column is evidence of absence rather than evidence of looking in the wrong place.
- FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS ARE NOT HOLDINGS: both the 10-K and 10-Q describe 'unaffiliated franchisees' operating stores in Mexico, South Korea, India and the Philippines (90 franchised locations) under 'multi-year franchise agreements'. Per the brief, a franchise agreement is a commercial contract, not an equity stake, and none is included in holdings.
- REGISTER SELF-GATE, computed on the final file exactly as the chart computes it (raw shares summed, aggregate container reduced by its rolls_up_into member's shares, no other reduction): 10 rows. Vanguard 15,130,289 + BlackRock 11,394,517 + Aristotle 11,057,269 + Blackhill 7,684,278 + State Street 5,906,785 + Geode 3,815,020 + FMR 1,616,247 + T. Rowe Price Associates 280,355 + officers/directors aggregate reduced to its residual (1,359,055 - 992,294 = 366,761) + Laura Alber 992,294 (full value, a member row) = 58,243,815 shares. 58,243,815 / 117,746,611 = 49.46% of the company. This sits above the 25-45% band the brief describes as typical but below the 55% hard ceiling; it is plausible here because Williams-Sonoma has bought back a very large fraction of its float (shares outstanding fell from roughly 126m immediately after the July 2024 split to 117.7m by May 2026), concentrating institutional ownership among a small number of large holders. Every register row's implied price per share (value_usd / shares) is internally consistent across holders at approximately $233.06-$235.23 (all valued at the 30 Jun 2026 13F reporting date), which cross-checks that no row mixes units or a stale share basis.
- CAPITAL GROUP: checked the three complex-defining registrants, Capital World Investors (CIK 0001422849), Capital International Investors (CIK 0001562230) and Capital Research Global Investors (CIK 0001422848), against their own fresh Q2 2026 13F-HR information tables (CUSIP 969904101 and the 'WILLIAMS-SONOMA' fragment, per the filer's own spelling). All three hold NOTHING in Williams-Sonoma as of 30 Jun 2026; no row was written for any of them. Did not sweep beyond these three: the chunk-prompt notes TransDigm's Capital Group family ran to six registrants, so a wider Capital Group family for WSM cannot be ruled out and is listed in unknowns.
- T. ROWE PRICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. (CIK 0001897612), the separate registrant the chunk-prompt specifically flags, was checked against its own Q2 2026 13F-HR (CUSIP 969904101 and 'WILLIAMS-SONOMA' fragment): holds NOTHING in Williams-Sonoma as of 30 Jun 2026. No row was written.
- company.market_cap_usd ($28.42bn) and its implied price (~$241.39, previous close $240.42) were read from stockanalysis.com/stocks/WSM/ on 19 Aug 2026 (basis: aggregator). $28.42bn / $241.39 implies about 117.7m shares outstanding, cross-checking closely against the SEC-filed shares_outstanding of 117,746,611.
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Recorded rather than filled in. Each of these is a place where a number could have been invented and was not.
- Whether Vanguard's family for WSM includes an 8th reporting entity beyond the 7 found in this project's own data/registers/WSM.json snapshot (the chunk-prompt notes the family is 'seven or eight' at other companies). Not independently verified beyond the snapshot's entity list.
- Whether Capital Group holds WSM through any registrant beyond the three checked (Capital World Investors, Capital International Investors, Capital Research Global Investors). Searched EDGAR company search for other 'Capital International ...' and 'Capital Research ...' registrants but could not confirm a further 13F-filing complex member with confidence in the time available; the three checked all report zero WSM shares.
- value_usd for the officers/directors insider rows: the DEF 14A beneficial ownership table gives only share counts, not dollar values, so both insider rows carry value_usd: null rather than an estimate.
- Exact filing date of the Schedule 13G underlying the DEF 14A's Blackhill Capital and Aristotle Capital Management figures (the proxy states the source but the exact 13G filing date was not captured for those two footnotes, unlike State Street's, which is dated 10 Nov 2025).