In recent trading session, Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) saw 24.89 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.51. Company’s recent per share price level of $73.12 trading at $4.46 or 6.50% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $588.14B. That most recent trading price of WMT’s stock is at a premium of 2.45% from its 52-week high price of $71.33 and is indicating a premium of 31.82% from its 52-week low price of $49.85. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 18.8 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 16.15 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Walmart Inc (WMT), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.49. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 31 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 30 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.65 in the current quarter.
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Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) trade information
Upright in the green today for gaining 6.50%, in the last five days WMT remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 08/15/24 when the stock touched $73.12 price level, adding 1.77% to its value on the day. Walmart Inc’s shares saw a change of 39.14% in year-to-date performance and have moved 8.07% in past 5-day. Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) showed a performance of 2.94% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 37.36 million shares which calculate 2.85 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 76 to the stock, which implies a rise of 3.79% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 28 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 190. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 61.71% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 61.71% for stock’s current value.
Walmart Inc (WMT) estimates and forecasts
Statistics highlight that Walmart Inc is scoring comparatively higher than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company added 30.11% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 9.46% while that of industry is 5.00. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 13.70% from the last financial year’s standing.
27 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 168.53B for the same. And 27 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 167.05B in the next quarter.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 20.49% during past 5 years. In 2024, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 10.21% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 8.17%.
WMT Dividends
Walmart Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Aug-15 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 1.35%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.98 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 1.56%.
Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 46.33% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 35.30 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 65.77%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 35.30% institutions for Walmart Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at WMT for having 411.75 million shares of worth $24.77 billion. And as of 2024-03-31, it was holding 5.1129 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 293.91 million shares on 2024-03-31. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 3.6497 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $17.68 billion.
On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2024, the former fund manager was holding 139.59 shares of worth $10.21 billion or 1.74% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 107.87 shares on Mar 31, 2024, making its stake of worth around $7.89 billion in the company or a holder of 1.34% of company’s stock.
