Currently, there are 8.03B common shares owned by the public and among those 4.36B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -9.78% and 12.73% over the past three months. WMT shares are trading 4.90% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 61.69% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $57.60 and touched a high of $105.30 over the same period. WMT has an average intraday trading volume of 17.21 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -5.62%, -0.92%, and 18.32% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) shares accounts for 35.52% of the company’s 8.03B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $761.40B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.54. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 39.38, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.41. The company has a PEG of 3.99 and a Quick Ratio of 0.24 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.66. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.23% over the week and 1.82% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Walmart Inc (WMT) will achieve an EPS of 0.59 for the current quarter, 0.71 for the next quarter and 2.96 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.57 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.57. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.6 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 5.50%, and 11.38% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 9.88% over the next five years, compared to 6.86% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the WMT, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. KeyBanc Capital Markets stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on December 11, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $96-$100. DZ Bank coverage for the Walmart Inc (WMT) stock in a research note released on November 21, 2024 offered a Hold rating with a price target of $91. Telsey Advisory Group was of a view on November 20, 2024 that the stock is Outperform, while Bernstein gave the stock Outperform rating on October 22, 2024, issuing a price target of $95. Oppenheimer on their part issued Outperform rating on October 14, 2024.
