NYSE:WMT - Walmart Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Walmart trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WMT."

Walmart announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 21st. Investors of record on Friday, December 7th will be given a dividend of $0.52 per share on Wednesday, January 2nd. This represents a $2.08 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.15%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 6th. View Walmart's Dividend History.

Walmart announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Wednesday, October 11th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase $20,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 15th. The retailer reported $1.08 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.02 by $0.06. The retailer had revenue of $124.89 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $124.86 billion. Walmart had a net margin of 1.01% and a return on equity of 18.36%. View Walmart's Earnings History.

Walmart is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 19th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Walmart.

Walmart issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 15th. The company provided EPS guidance of $4.75-4.85 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $4.79. Walmart also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $4.75-4.85 EPS.

32 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Walmart's shares. Their forecasts range from $80.00 to $120.00. On average, they expect Walmart's share price to reach $104.1333 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Walmart.

32 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Walmart in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 16 hold ratings and 15 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Walmart.

Press coverage about WMT stock has been trending positive on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Walmart earned a coverage optimism score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the retailer a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future.

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Walmart's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (3.04%), FMR LLC (0.71%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.47%), AQR Capital Management LLC (0.41%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.39%) and Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.34%). Company insiders that own Walmart stock include Alice L Walton, C Douglas Mcmillon, Daniel J Bartlett, David Cheesewright, David Chojnowski, Gregory S Foran, Jacqueline P Canney, Jeffrey J Gearhart, Jim C Walton, John R Furner, Judith J Mckenna, M Brett Biggs, Rosalind G Brewer and S Robson Walton. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Walmart.

WMT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Bridgeway Capital Management Inc., Equity Investment Corp, Pzena Investment Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Vantage Investment Partners LLC, Allianz Asset Management GmbH and Bessemer Group Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Walmart company stock in the last year include Alice L Walton, Daniel J Bartlett, David Chojnowski, Jacqueline P Canney, Jeffrey J Gearhart, Jim C Walton, John R Furner, Judith J Mckenna, M Brett Biggs and S Robson Walton. View Insider Buying and Selling for Walmart.

WMT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AQR Capital Management LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, FIL Ltd, TIAA CREF Investment Management LLC, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Levin Capital Strategies L.P. and ING Groep NV. View Insider Buying and Selling for Walmart.

Shares of WMT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WMT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $96.78.

Walmart has a market capitalization of $289.40 billion and generates $500.34 billion in revenue each year. The retailer earns $9.86 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.42 on an earnings per share basis. Walmart employs 2,300,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Walmart is http://www.stock.walmart.com.

Walmart's mailing address is 702 SOUTHWEST 8TH ST, BENTONVILLE AR, 72716. The retailer can be reached via phone at 479-273-4000 or via email at [email protected]