$154.48
Walmart Inc (WMT) is a multi-national retail chain that owns more than 10,000 stores in 26 countries. It is the world's largest company by revenue. Walmart also own Sam's Club retail warehouses. Its business model is centered around selling a variety of combined grocery and merchandise at low prices.
How to buy shares in Walmart
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- Open your account. Provide your personal information and sign up.
- Confirm your payment details. You'll need to fund your account with a bank transfer, debit card or credit card.
- Search the platform for stock code: WMT in this case.
- Research stocks. The platform should provide the latest information available.
- Buy your stocks. Place a market order or limit order with your preferred number of shares. It's that simple.
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Is it a good time to buy Walmart stock?
Only you can make the decision on the time to leap... but here's some supporting information and analysis.
Share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Walmart's shares have ranged in value from as little as $134.5433 up to $169.94. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Walmart's is 0.532. This would suggest that Walmart's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Historical closes compared with the last close of $154.4801
1 week (2023-11-28) | -2.62% |
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1 month (2023-11-05) | -6.18% |
3 months (2023-09-05) | -4.33% |
6 months (2023-06-05) | 1.88% |
1 year (2022-12-05) | 3.43% |
2 years (2021-12-05) | 15.88% |
3 years (2020-12-05) | 8.67% |
5 years (2018-12-05) | 76.48% |
The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.
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Is Walmart under- or over-valued?
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Walmart P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA
Walmart's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 26x. In other words, Walmart stocks trade at around 26x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 10, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Walmart's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.7064. Higher PEG ratios such as this can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value given the current rate of growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Walmart's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Walmart's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $37.7 billion ($51.1 billion CAD).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Walmart's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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