A new trading day began on Monday, with Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) stock price down -0.73% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $84.83. WMT’s price has ranged from $49.85 to $85.54 over the past 52 weeks.
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Consumer Defensive Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 4.75% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 10.44%. With a float of $4.35 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $8.05 billion.
The firm has a total of 2100000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 24.63%, operating margin of 4.25%, and the pretax margin is 3.26%.
Walmart Inc (WMT) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Discount Stores Industry. The insider ownership of Walmart Inc is 45.84%, while institutional ownership is 35.18%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 01 ’24, was worth 246,368. In this transaction Executive Vice President of this company sold 3,000 shares at a rate of $82.12, taking the stock ownership to the 378,165 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 24 ’24, when Company’s President and CEO sold 29,124 for $82.79, making the entire transaction worth $2,411,298. This insider now owns 3,843,929 shares in total.
Walmart Inc (WMT) Recent Fiscal highlights
In its latest quarterly report, released on 7/31/2024, the company reported earnings of 0.47 per share, which was $0.1 higher than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.65 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 10.44% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.00% during the next five years compared to 20.49% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Walmart Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.22. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.03. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 57.14.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.92, a number that is poised to hit 0.53 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.73 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Walmart Inc (WMT)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Walmart Inc, WMT], we can find that recorded value of 13.62 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 16.75 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 71.22%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.23.
During the past 100 days, Walmart Inc’s (WMT) raw stochastic average was set at 93.00%, which indicates a significant increase from 69.21% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 12.81% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 18.01% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $80.66, while its 200-day Moving Average is $68.22. Now, the first resistance to watch is $85.04. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $85.87. The third major resistance level sits at $86.33. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $83.75, it is likely to go to the next support level at $83.29. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $82.46.
Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 684.81 billion, the company has a total of 8,038,251K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 648,125 M while annual income is 15,511 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 169,335 M while its latest quarter income was 4,501 M.
