A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) stock price down -2.68% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $97.59. WMT’s price has ranged from $58.40 to $105.30 over the past 52 weeks.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Consumer Defensive sector was 5.39%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 5.04%. With a float of $4.36 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $8.03 billion.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 2100000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 24.85%, operating margin of 4.31%, and the pretax margin is 3.86%.
Walmart Inc (WMT) Insider Activity
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 45.75%, while institutional ownership is 35.55%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 03 ’25, was worth 3,730,109. In this transaction Executive Vice President of this company sold 38,000 shares at a rate of $98.16, taking the stock ownership to the 219,281 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 27 ’25, when Company’s President and CEO sold 29,124 for $96.95, making the entire transaction worth $2,823,586. This insider now owns 3,558,247 shares in total.
Walmart Inc (WMT) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.71 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.04% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.88% during the next five years compared to 6.86% 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 0.24. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.12. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 60.26.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.41, a number that is poised to hit 0.59 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.96 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Walmart Inc (WMT)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 18.02 million, its volume of 20.91 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 44.88%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.39.
During the past 100 days, Walmart Inc’s (WMT) raw stochastic average was set at 60.62%, which indicates a significant increase from 21.62% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 39.14% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 21.99% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $95.93, while its 200-day Moving Average is $81.37. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $96.53 in the near term. At $98.08, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $99.12. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $93.94, it is likely to go to the next support level at $92.90. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $91.35.
Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 762.93 billion, the company has a total of 8,033,386K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 680,985 M while annual income is 19,436 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 180,554 M while its latest quarter income was 5,254 M.
