Retail Stocks To Research - October 15th

Key Points

• Amazon, Alibaba, Walmart, Costco, and PNC Financial Services are the top retail stocks to watch, reflecting the highest dollar trading volume recently.
• Amazon is positioning itself as a potential grocery disruptor, indicating significant changes in its retail strategy.
• The retail sector is sensitive to economic cycles, consumer spending trends, and inventory issues, making it crucial for investors to stay informed.

Amazon.com, Alibaba Group, Walmart, Costco Wholesale, and The PNC Financial Services Group are the five Retail stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Retail stocks are shares of companies whose primary business is selling goods or services directly to consumers (for example, department stores, e‑commerce platforms, grocery chains, and specialty retailers). For investors, these stocks tend to be closely tied to consumer spending, trends and seasonality, making them sensitive to economic cycles, margins and inventory issues. The term is also sometimes used informally to describe securities favored or traded mainly by individual (retail) investors, which can lead to sentiment-driven 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.

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Alibaba Group (BABA)

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through seven segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others.

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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.

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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.

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The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC)

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. operates as a diversified financial services company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Retail Banking, Corporate & Institutional Banking, and Asset Management Group segments. The company's Retail Banking segment offers checking, savings, and money market accounts, as well as time deposit; residential mortgages, home equity loans and lines of credit, auto loans, credit cards, education loans, and personal and small business loans and lines of credit; and brokerage, insurance, and investment and cash management services.

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