Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -0.88% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $84.88.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $85.63, falling within a range of $84.7302 and $85.83. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.537 whereas the PE ratio is 35.26 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $105.30, and the low was $58.56. On the whole, WMT has fluctuated by -12.30% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Walmart Inc currently standing at about $680.47 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-19. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.86, with its dividend yield at 1.01%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 702.68B, with a low estimate of 162.39B and a high estimate of 167.28B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 164.67B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that WMT’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 3.60, with the price of WMT currently trading nearly -3.78% and -10.07% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 36.38, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.83% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.40%. Furthermore, Walmart Inc (WMT)’s beta value is 0.70, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.07.
A comparison of Walmart Inc (WMT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. WMT showed an intraday change of -0.88% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 40.27%%.
Data on historical trading for Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 23.9 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 20.02 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 8.02 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 45.59% of Walmart Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 35.61% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 37.56 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 1.38. According to the data, the short interest in Walmart Inc (WMT) stood at 88.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 38.2 million. The stock has fallen by -6.05% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the WMT stock heading into the next quarter.
