In today’s recent session, 7.37 million shares of the Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) have been traded, and its beta is 0.69. Most recently the company’s share price was $85.36, and it changed around $0.6 or 0.70% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $684.28B. WMT at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $105.30, offering almost -23.36% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $58.56, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 31.4% since then. We note from Walmart Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 25.98 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 19.66 million.
Walmart Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.40. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 43 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 13 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 4 recommended WMT as a Hold, whereas 25 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Walmart Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 0.59 for the current quarter.
Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) trade information
Instantly WMT has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 0.70% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 87.65 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 2.61%. The company’s shares are currently down -5.53% year-to-date, but still down -1.13% over the last five days. On the other hand, Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) is -12.63% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 37.56 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.38 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $97, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 12.0% from its current value. Analyst projections state that WMT is forecast to be at a low of $90 and a high of $113.
Walmart Inc (WMT) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 4.20%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 21 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 164.8B in revenue for the current quarter. 21 analysts expect Walmart Inc to make 173.69B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 159.94B and 167.77B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 3.04%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 3.53%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 6.82%. Walmart Inc earnings are expected to increase by 4.76% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 9.79% per year for the next five years.
WMT Dividends
Walmart Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-19. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 1.00 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.86. It is important to note, however, that the 1.00% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 1.45 per year.
Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 45.62% of Walmart Inc shares, and 35.87% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 65.95%. Walmart Inc stock is held by 4655.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 5.1282% of the shares, which is about 412.97 million shares worth $27.96 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 3.6911% or 296.91 million shares worth $20.1 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024. The former held 138.48 shares worth $11.82 billion, making up 1.73% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 117.5 shares worth around $10.03 billion, which represents about 1.47% of the total shares outstanding.
