Walmart, Berkshire Hathaway, and Costco Wholesale are the three Grocery stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Grocery stocks are the inventory of food, beverage and household items that grocery retailers keep on hand to sell to consumers. They include perishable goods such as produce, meat and dairy as well as non-perishables like canned foods, grains and cleaning supplies. In a financial context, “grocery stocks” can also refer to the publicly traded shares of companies operating in the grocery-retail sector. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Grocery stocks within the last several days.
Walmart (WMT)
Walmart Inc. engages in the operation of retail, wholesale, other units, and eCommerce worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam's Club. It operates supercenters, supermarkets, hypermarkets, warehouse clubs, cash and carry stores, and discount stores under Walmart and Walmart Neighborhood Market brands; membership-only warehouse clubs; ecommerce websites, such as walmart.com.mx, walmart.ca, flipkart.com, PhonePe and other sites; and mobile commerce applications.
Walmart stock traded down $0.43 during trading on Friday, reaching $94.40. The company had a trading volume of 10,408,468 shares, compared to its average volume of 17,865,172. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.40, a quick ratio of 0.23 and a current ratio of 0.82. Walmart has a 12-month low of $65.95 and a 12-month high of $105.30. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $95.54 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $94.04. The firm has a market capitalization of $755.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 39.17, a PEG ratio of 4.42 and a beta of 0.69.
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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.
BRK.B traded down $3.72 during trading on Friday, hitting $486.62. 1,896,464 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,369,709. Berkshire Hathaway has a 1 year low of $403.33 and a 1 year high of $542.07. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $511.68 and a 200 day moving average price of $491.19. The firm has a market cap of $1.05 trillion, a P/E ratio of 9.83, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.45 and a beta of 0.85.
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Costco Wholesale (COST)
Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The company offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories.
COST traded down $13.18 during trading on Friday, hitting $989.53. 925,082 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,058,452. The company has a current ratio of 0.98, a quick ratio of 0.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. Costco Wholesale has a 1 year low of $793.00 and a 1 year high of $1,078.24. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $998.80 and a 200 day moving average price of $980.70. The firm has a market cap of $438.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 58.09, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 6.15 and a beta of 1.00.
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