During the last session, Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT)’s traded shares were 11.3 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.70. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $98.83, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.28% or $0.28. The 52-week high for the WMT share is $105.30, that puts it down -6.55 from that peak though still a striking 39.86% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $59.44. The company’s market capitalization is $790.73B, and the average trade volume was 23.29 million shares over the past three months.
Walmart Inc (WMT) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.43. WMT has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 31 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 30 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) trade information
Walmart Inc (WMT) registered a 0.28% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.28% in intraday trading to $98.83, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 1.62%, and it has moved by 17.89% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 65.21%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $99, which implies an increase of 0.17% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $93 and $113 respectively. As a result, WMT is trading at a discount of -14.34% off the target high and 5.9% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 6.82%. While earnings are projected to return 3.76% in 2025, the next five years will return 9.44% per annum.
WMT Dividends
Walmart Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Walmart Inc is 0.86, with the dividend yield indicating at 0.87 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
The next largest institutional holding, with 296.91 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 3.6911% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $20.1 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Walmart Inc (WMT) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 138.48 shares. This amounts to just over 1.73 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $13.69 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 117.5, or about 1.47% of the stock, which is worth about $11.61 billion.
