In the latest trading session, 2.29 million Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.70. With the company’s most recent per share price at $86.36 changing hands around $0.77 or 0.90% at last look, the market valuation stands at $692.35B. WMT’s current price is a discount, trading about -21.93% off its 52-week high of $105.30. The share price had its 52-week low at $58.56, which suggests the last value was 32.19% up since then. When we look at Walmart Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 28.18 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 19.75 million.
Analysts gave the Walmart Inc (WMT) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.38. 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 is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 1.36%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -4.41%, with the 5-day performance at 1.36% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) is -16.78% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 40.33 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.08 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 96, meaning bulls need an upside of 10.04% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, WMT’s forecast low is 90 with 113 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -30.85% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -4.21% for it to hit the projected low.
Walmart Inc (WMT) estimates and forecasts
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 6.82%. The 2025 estimates are for Walmart Inc earnings to increase by 4.92%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 9.83% per year.
WMT Dividends
Walmart Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-19. The 0.96% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.83. It is important to note, however, that the 0.96% 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 1.45 per year.
Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 45.62% of Walmart Inc shares while 35.84% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 65.90%. There are 35.84% 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.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. With 138.48 shares estimated at $11.92 billion under it, the former controlled 1.72% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 1.46% of the shares, roughly 117.5 shares worth around $10.11 billion.
