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NYSE:WMT

Walmart - WMT Competitors

$147.34
+1.67 (+1.15%)
(As of 03/31/2023 12:11 PM ET)
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Today's Range
$146.47
$148.44
50-Day Range
$136.97
$147.33
52-Week Range
$117.27
$160.77
Volume
2.81 million shs
Average Volume
6.48 million shs
Market Capitalization
$397.18 billion
P/E Ratio
34.43
Dividend Yield
1.55%
Price Target
$162.44

WMT vs. COST, HD, BABA, MCD, LOW, SBUX, AMZN, PSMT, TGT, and DG

Should you be buying Walmart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walmart include Costco Wholesale (COST), Home Depot (HD), Alibaba Group (BABA), McDonald's (MCD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Starbucks (SBUX), Amazon.com (AMZN), PriceSmart (PSMT), Target (TGT), and Dollar General (DG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.

Walmart vs.

Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) and Walmart (NYSE:WMT) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

66.0% of Costco Wholesale shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.3% of Walmart shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Costco Wholesale shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.1% of Walmart shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Costco Wholesale has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walmart has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Costco Wholesale received 332 more outperform votes than Walmart when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.62% of users gave Costco Wholesale an outperform vote while only 60.24% of users gave Walmart an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Costco WholesaleOutperform Votes
1729
72.62%
Underperform Votes
652
27.38%
WalmartOutperform Votes
1397
60.24%
Underperform Votes
922
39.76%

Walmart has higher revenue and earnings than Costco Wholesale. Walmart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Costco Wholesale, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Costco Wholesale$226.95 billion0.96$5.84 billion$13.6136.11
Walmart$611.29 billion0.64$11.68 billion$4.2834.04

Costco Wholesale presently has a consensus price target of $550.16, suggesting a potential upside of 11.94%. Walmart has a consensus price target of $163.06, suggesting a potential upside of 11.94%. Given Walmart's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Walmart is more favorable than Costco Wholesale.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Costco Wholesale
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.76
Walmart
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
23 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.73

Costco Wholesale pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Walmart pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Costco Wholesale pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Walmart pays out 53.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Costco Wholesale has raised its dividend for 18 consecutive years and Walmart has raised its dividend for 51 consecutive years. Walmart is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Costco Wholesale has a net margin of 2.58% compared to Walmart's net margin of 1.91%. Costco Wholesale's return on equity of 28.66% beat Walmart's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Costco Wholesale 2.58% 28.66% 9.39%
Walmart 1.91% 20.45% 6.96%

In the previous week, Walmart had 1 more articles in the media than Costco Wholesale. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Walmart and 34 mentions for Costco Wholesale. Costco Wholesale's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Walmart's score of -0.15 indicating that Costco Wholesale is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Costco Wholesale
13 Very Positive mention(s)
9 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Walmart
10 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Costco Wholesale beats Walmart on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding WMT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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WMT vs. The Competition

MetricWalmartVariety stores IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$387.12B$57.80B$16.23B$14.27B
Dividend Yield1.59%2.96%171.09%3.87%
P/E Ratio34.0422.6832.2519.20
Price / Sales0.641.0912.0810.71
Price / Cash13.7619.0035.7324.37
Price / Book4.695.534.826.80
Net Income$11.68B$1.96B$543.87M$866.28M
7 Day Performance2.73%1.55%2.19%2.91%
1 Month Performance2.49%-1.94%-4.47%-4.83%
1 Year Performance-2.18%2.84%-11.77%-12.88%

Walmart Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
COST
Costco Wholesale
2.8847 of 5 stars
$490.87
+0.8%
$550.16
+12.1%
-14.7%$217.69B$226.95B36.07304,000Analyst Report
Short Interest ↑
HD
Home Depot
2.6453 of 5 stars
$283.36
+0.9%
$331.45
+17.0%
-7.5%$287.60B$157.40B16.99518,100Short Interest ↑
BABA
Alibaba Group
2.4238 of 5 stars
$99.92
+1.5%
$148.13
+48.3%
-11.3%$264.60B$134.57B54.90254,941Analyst Report
Options Volume
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
MCD
McDonald's
2.4706 of 5 stars
$277.44
+0.6%
$290.15
+4.6%
+11.5%$202.95B$23.18B33.23150,000Analyst Report
LOW
Lowe's Companies
3.1801 of 5 stars
$191.94
+0.9%
$225.00
+17.2%
-8.0%$119.14B$97.06B19.17340,000Dividend Announcement
Analyst Upgrade
SBUX
Starbucks
2.6304 of 5 stars
$100.62
+1.9%
$108.74
+8.1%
+11.3%$115.64B$32.25B35.06402,000Analyst Report
Analyst Revision
AMZN
Amazon.com
2.9181 of 5 stars
$100.25
+3.1%
$144.72
+44.4%
-38.7%$1.03T$513.98B-374.051,541,000
PSMT
PriceSmart
1.9993 of 5 stars
$69.29
-1.2%
$77.00
+11.1%
-11.7%$2.15B$4.07B20.0810,600Short Interest ↑
TGT
Target
2.8363 of 5 stars
$158.11
-1.0%
$181.69
+14.9%
-27.8%$72.79B$109.12B26.44440,000Negative News
DG
Dollar General
3.0207 of 5 stars
$207.14
-0.5%
$248.75
+20.1%
-8.7%$46.31B$37.84B19.40163,000Analyst Revision
This page (NYSE:WMT) was last updated on 3/31/2023 by MarketBeat.com Staff