WMT (WMT) Stock

About WMT

WMT is led by CEO John R. Furner, employs 2,100,000 people, headquartered in Bentonville, US, publicly traded since 1972.

WMT stock trades at $105.97 with a market capitalization of $843.28B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 37.67, price-to-book of 8.45, price-to-sales of 1.13. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $95.60 and $135.16, and currently trades 21.6% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.95%.

On profitability, WMT generates a return on equity (ROE) of 22.74% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 18.11%, an operating margin of 4.16%, a net profit margin of 3.00%.

In its most recent fiscal year, WMT reported annual revenue of $713.2B, net profit of $21.9B, revenue has compounded at 5.0% a year over the last five years, profit at 10.1% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75, a current ratio of 0.77, total assets of $284.7B, $10.7B in cash and equivalents.

WMT has a beta of 0.60 (less volatile than the overall market).