Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) is 8.12% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $58.18 and a high of $105.30 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The WMT stock was last observed hovering at around $93.67 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 4.02%.
Currently trading at $97.69, the stock is -2.68% and 2.06% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 29.29 million and changing 4.29% at the moment leaves the stock 21.42% off its SMA200. WMT registered 67.08% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 29.25%.
The stock witnessed a 3.09% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 12.06%, and is -5.87% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.94% over the week and 1.97% over the month.
Walmart Inc (WMT) has around 2100000 employees, a market worth around $784.78B and $680.99B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 40.58 and Fwd P/E is 33.04. Profit margin for the company is 2.85%. Distance from 52-week low is 67.91% and -7.23% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (13.58%).
with sales reaching $164.8B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 5.16% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 3.91% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 3.04% in year-over-year returns.
Walmart Inc (WMT) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 8.03B, and float is at 4.36B with Short Float at 0.83%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 412.97 million shares valued at $27.96 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 5.1282% of the WMT Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 296.91 million shares valued at $20.1 billion to account for 3.687 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 187.48 million shares representing 2.328% and valued at over $12.69 billion, while GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC holds 1.0534 of the shares totaling 84.83 million with a market value of $5.73 billion.
Walmart Inc (WMT) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Nicholas Christopher James, the company’s Executive Vice President. SEC filings show that Nicholas Christopher James sold 17,600 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 21 ’25 at a price of $94.42 per share for a total of $1.66 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.35 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Feb 18 ’25, Bartlett Daniel J (Executive Vice President) disposed off 1,600 shares at an average price of $103.99 for $0.17 million. The insider now directly holds 423,597 shares of Walmart Inc (WMT).
