In the last trading session, 11.04 million Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.54. With the company’s per share price at $92.50 changed hands at $0.62 or 0.67% during last session, the market valuation stood at $748.56B. WMT’s last price was a premium, traded about 0.27% off its 52-week high of $92.25. The share price had its 52-week low at $49.85, which suggests the last value was 46.11% up since then. When we look at Walmart Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 20.7 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 15.57 million.

Analysts gave the Walmart Inc (WMT) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.41. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 31 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended WMT as a Hold, 30 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.

Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) trade information

Instantly WMT was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 4.65%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 76.02%, with the 5-day performance at 4.65% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) is 13.65% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 31.7 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.59 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 90, meaning bulls need a downside of -2.78% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, WMT’s forecast low is 28 with 190 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -105.41% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 69.73% for it to hit the projected low.

Walmart Inc (WMT) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Walmart Inc share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 40.66% over the past 6 months, a 11.26% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 4.40%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 20.49%. The 2024 estimates are for Walmart Inc earnings to increase by 11.75%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 9.00% per year.

WMT Dividends

Walmart Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January. The 1.29% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 1.19. It is important to note, however, that the 1.29% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 1.52 per year.

Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 46.38% of Walmart Inc shares while 35.56% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 66.32%. There are 35.56% institutions holding the Walmart Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 5.1282% of the shares, roughly 412.97 million WMT shares worth $27.96 billion.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 3.687% or 296.91 million shares worth $20.1 billion as of 2024-06-30.