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  • Last Close 163.07
  • Sector Consumer Defensive
  • Industry Discount Stores
  • Investment Style Large Blend
  • Day Range 162.35  –  163.54
  • Year Range 128.07  –  165.85
  • Market Cap 439.0479 Bil
  • Volume / Avg 1.7 Mil /  5.3 Mil
  • Price / Sales 0.70
  • Price / Book 5.52
  • Forward Div Yield 1.47%
  • Trailing Div Yield 1.39%

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Walmart Earnings: Low Prices Resonate With Consumers as the Retailer Posts Strong Top-Line Growth

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Analyst Note

| Noah Rohr |

Wide-moat Walmart delivered solid second-quarter results, posting robust growth in comparable sales and operating profit, as the retailer's low-price value proposition continues to resonate with consumers. In response, management raised its fiscal 2024 adjusted earnings per share guidance by a mid-single-digit percentage to a range of $6.36-$6.46. Given Walmart’s dominant position in high-frequency categories such as grocery, we believe the retailer is well positioned to navigate an uncertain economic environment. We maintained our fair value estimate of $145 per share.

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Company Profile WMT

Business Description

Walmart serves as the preeminent retailer in the United States, with its strategy predicated on superior operating efficiency and offering the lowest priced goods to consumers to drive robust store traffic and product turnover. Walmart augmented its low-price business strategy by offering a convenient one-stop shopping destination with the opening of its first supercenter in 1988.Today, Walmart operates over 4,700 stores in the United States (5,300 including Sam’s Club) and over 10,000 stores globally. Walmart generated over $420 billion in domestic namesake sales last year, with Sam’s Club contributing another $84 billion to the firm’s top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $100 billion in sales. The company serves around 240 million customers globally.

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702 S.W. 8th Street
Bentonville, AR, 72716
Sector Consumer Defensive
Industry Discount Stores
Employees 2,100,000

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Competitors & Peers WMT

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Walmart Inc

XNYS: WMT

Amazon.com Inc

XNAS: AMZN

Costco Wholesale Corp

XNAS: COST

The Kroger Co

XNYS: KR
Price
163.16127.65556.3845.34
Currency
USDUSDUSDUSD
Change
+$0.09 (0.06%) −$3.62 (2.76%) −$2.25 (0.40%) −$0.37 (0.81%)
Market Cap
439.05 Bil1.32 Tril246.47 Bil32.62 Bil
Industry
Discount Stores Internet Retail Discount Stores Grocery Stores
Sector
Consumer Defensive
Consumer Cyclical
Consumer Defensive
Consumer Defensive

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FAQs for Walmart Inc Stock

Yes. WMT has a forward dividend yield of 1.40%. See WMT’s full dividends and stock split history on the Dividend tab.
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WMT’s market cap is 439.05 Bil.
Market capitalization is calculated by taking a company’s share price and multiplying it by the total number of shares. It’s often used to measure a company’s size. In the Morningstar Style Box, large-cap names account for the largest 70% of U.S. stocks, mid-cap names account for the largest 70–90%, and small-cap names are the remaining 10% of companies.

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WMT’s stock style is Large Core.
Style is an investment factor that has a meaningful impact on investment risk and returns. Style is calculated by combining value and growth scores, which are first individually calculated.

High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks. These are established companies that reliably pay dividends.

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WMT’s price/sales is 0.70.
Price/sales represents the amount an investor is willing to pay for a dollar generated from a particular company’s sales or revenues.

WMT’s price/forward earnings is 31.48.
Forward P/E gives some indication of how cheap or expensive a stock is compared with consensus earnings estimates. The lower the Forward P/E, the cheaper the stock.

WMT’s price/book is 5.52.
Price/book ratio can tell investors approximately how much they’re paying for a company’s assets, based on historical, rather than current, valuations. Historical valuations generally do not reflect a company’s current market value. Value investors frequently look for companies that have low price/book ratios.

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WMT’s beta can be found in Trading Information at the top of this page.
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