Currently, there are 8.02B 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 -4.51% and -7.66% over the past three months. WMT shares are trading -7.22% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 40.89% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $58.56 and touched a high of $105.30 over the same period. WMT has an average intraday trading volume of 21.13 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 -2.67%, -10.47%, and -0.15% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) shares accounts for 35.61% of the company’s 8.02B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $672.05B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.71. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 34.82, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.41. The company has a PEG of 3.56 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 4.46% over the week and 2.94% 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 2.95 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 4.39%, and 12.29% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 9.79% over the next five years, compared to 6.82% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the WMT, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. DZ Bank stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on February 25, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $110. KeyBanc Capital Markets coverage for the Walmart Inc (WMT) stock in a research note released on December 11, 2024 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $100. DZ Bank was of a view on November 21, 2024 that the stock is Hold, while Telsey Advisory Group gave the stock Outperform rating on November 20, 2024, issuing a price target of $92- $100. Bernstein on their part issued Outperform rating on October 22, 2024.
