Walmart (WMT)

• Market cap: $729B
• 1 day: -0.81%
• 5 days: -0.35%
• 1 month: -4.30%
• 3 months: 13.08%
• 6 months: 30.43%
• Year to date: 0.88%
• 1 year: 68.32%
• 5 years: 134.42%
• 10 years: 214.48%
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Variety Stores

About: Walmart serves as the preeminent retailer in the United States, with its strategy predicated on superior operating efficiency and offering the lowest priced goods to consumers to drive robust store traffic and product turnover. Walmart augmented its low-price business strategy by offering a convenient one-stop shopping destination with the opening of its first supercenter in 1988.Today, Walmart operates over 4,600 stores in the United States (5,200 including Sam's Club) and over 10,000 locations globally. Walmart generated over $440 billion in domestic namesake sales in fiscal 2024, with Sam's Club contributing another $86 billion to the company's top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $115 billion in sales. The retailer serves around 240 million customers globally each week.

Employees: 2,100,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

199% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 278 | Existing positions closed: 93

27% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 148 [Q2] → 188 (+40) [Q3]

23% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $5.09B | Put options by funds: $4.14B

21% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $198B [Q2] → $238B (+$40.5B) [Q3]

4% more funds holding

Funds holding: 3,248 [Q2] → 3,389 (+141) [Q3]

5% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 1,416 | Existing positions reduced: 1,347

1.66% less ownership

Funds ownership: 36.02% [Q2] → 34.36% (-1.66%) [Q3]

Research analyst outlook

20 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $93 2% upside
• Avg. target: $100 10% upside
• High target: $115 27% upside

20 analyst ratings

• positive: 19 95%
• neutral: 1 5%
• negative: 0 0%

Wells Fargo Edward Kelly 61% 1-year accuracy 20 / 33 met price target	10% upside $100	Overweight Maintained	10 Jan 2025
Barclays Seth Sigman 68% 1-year accuracy 32 / 47 met price target	8% upside $98	Overweight Maintained	9 Jan 2025
Jefferies Corey Tarlowe 46% 1-year accuracy 11 / 24 met price target	22% upside $111	Buy Maintained	17 Dec 2024
Tigress Financial Ivan Feinseth 59% 1-year accuracy 41 / 69 met price target	27% upside $115	Buy Maintained	13 Dec 2024
Keybanc Bradley Thomas 65% 1-year accuracy 11 / 17 met price target	10% upside $100	Overweight Maintained	11 Dec 2024