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Retail Stocks To Keep An Eye On - March 8th

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Key Points

  • Amazon (AMZN), Costco (COST), and Walmart (WMT) are MarketBeat's retail stocks to watch after having the highest dollar trading volume among retail stocks in the past several days.
  • Retail stocks typically attract individual traders and can show greater sensitivity to social‑media and sentiment‑driven moves, smaller trade sizes, and sometimes higher short‑term volatility.
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Amazon.com, Costco Wholesale, and Walmart are the three Retail stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Retail stocks are shares bought and sold by individual, non‑institutional investors through personal brokerage accounts, as opposed to trades made by institutions like mutual funds or pension funds. The term also commonly refers to stocks that attract heavy participation from these individual traders and can therefore show smaller trade sizes, greater sensitivity to social‑media and sentiment-driven moves, and sometimes higher short‑term volatility. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Retail stocks within the last several days.

Amazon.com (AMZN)

Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products, advertising, and subscriptions service through online and physical stores in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, Echo, Ring, Blink, and eero; and develops and produces media content.

Read Our Latest Research Report on AMZN

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on COST

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on WMT

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