Walmart Stock Today
| WMT Stock | USD 80.94 0.51 0.63% |
Performance15 of 100
| Odds Of DistressLess than 3
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Walmart is selling for under 80.94 as of the 4th of October 2024; that is 0.63 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's last reported lowest price was 79.88. Walmart has a very small chance of experiencing financial distress in the next few years and had a good performance during the last 90 days. Note, on September 6, 2024, Representative John James of US Congress acquired under $15k worth of Walmart's common stock.
Business Domain Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail | IPO Date 25th of August 1972 | Category Consumer Defensive | Classification Consumer Staples |
Walmart Inc. engages in the operation of retail, wholesale, and other units worldwide. The company was founded in 1945 and is based in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart operates under Discount Stores classification in the United States and is traded on New York Stock Exchange. The company has 8.04 B outstanding shares of which 44.37 M shares are at this time shorted by investors with about 2.47 days to cover. More on Walmart
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ESG Sustainability
Environmental | Governance | Social |
| CEO | John Furner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thematic Ideas | Showing 3 out of 5 themes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Old Names | [West Mountain Environmental Corp., Walmart Inc] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business Concentration | Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail, Consumer Defensive, Dow Jones Industrial, NYSE Composite, SP 500 Index, SP 100 Index, SP 100, Dow Jones Composite, NYSE 100 Index, SP RETAIL SELECT, ARCA Institutional, BETTERINVESTING 100 INDEX, BTRINVSTNG 100 INDEX, ARCA Major Markets, Macroaxis Index, Giant Impact, Robots And Drones, Dividend Beast, Impulse, Consumer Staples, Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail, Discount Stores, Consumer Defensive (View all Sectors) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Debt LevelsWalmart can leverage the use of borrowed funds to amplify returns from an investment. In general, analyzing the relationship between debt to total assets helps investors to understand Walmart's financial leverage. It provides some insight into what part of Walmart's total assets is financed by creditors.
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Walmart (WMT) is traded on New York Stock Exchange in USA. It is located in 702 South West 8th Street, Bentonville, AR, United States, 72716 and employs 2,100,000 people. Walmart is listed under Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail category by Fama And French industry classification. The company currently falls under 'Mega-Cap' category with a total capitalization of 646.52 B. Walmart runs under Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail sector within Consumer Staples industry. The entity has 8.04 B outstanding shares of which 44.37 M shares are at this time shorted by investors with about 2.47 days to cover.
Walmart has about 8.88 B in cash with 35.73 B of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 4.27.
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Ownership AllocationWalmart retains a total of 8.04 Billion outstanding shares. Walmart owns significant amount of outstanding shares owned by insiders. An insider is usually defined as a CEO, other corporate executive, director, or institutional investor who own at least 10% of the company's outstanding shares. Please note that on September 6, 2024, Representative John James of US Congress acquired under $15k worth of Walmart's common stock.
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Walmart Stock Institutional Holders
| Instituion | Recorded On | Shares | |
| Northern Trust Corp | 2024-06-30 | 40 M | |
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins Co | 2024-06-30 | 39.2 M | |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 2024-06-30 | 36.3 M | |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 2024-06-30 | 33.7 M | |
| Jpmorgan Chase & Co | 2024-06-30 | 33.6 M | |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 2024-06-30 | 30.9 M | |
| Nuveen Asset Management, Llc | 2024-06-30 | 29.6 M | |
| Bank Of New York Mellon Corp | 2024-06-30 | 28.7 M | |
| Royal Bank Of Canada | 2024-06-30 | 27.1 M | |
| Vanguard Group Inc | 2024-06-30 | 413 M | |
| Blackrock Inc | 2024-06-30 | 296.9 M |
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Walmart Corporate Directors
| Sarah Friar | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Randall Stephenson | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Steven Reinemund | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Cesar Conde | Independent Director | Profile |
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