Walmart Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation
| WMT Stock | USD 90.44 2.05 2.32% |
Considering the 90-day investment horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Walmart is 'Buy'. A buy or sell recommendation provided by Macroaxis is an automated directive regarding whether to purchase or sell Walmart given historical horizon and risk tolerance towards Walmart. When Macroaxis issues a 'buy' or 'sell' recommendation for Walmart, the advice is generated through an automated system that utilizes algorithms and statistical models.
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Time Horizon
Risk Tolerance
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Buy
Market Performance | Solid | Details | |
Volatility | Very steady | Details | |
Hype Condition | Low key | Details | |
Current Valuation | Overvalued | Details | |
Odds Of Distress | Very Small | Details | |
Economic Sensitivity | Barely shadows the market | Details | |
Investor Sentiment | Alarmed | Details | |
Analyst Consensus | Strong Buy | Details | |
Financial Strenth (F Score) | Healthy | Details | |
Financial Leverage | Not Rated | Details | |
Reporting Quality (M-Score) | Unlikely Manipulator | Details |
Walmart Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions
| Walmart is unlikely to experience financial distress in the next 2 years | |
| Walmart has 60.44 B in debt with debt to equity (D/E) ratio of 0.81, which is OK given its current industry classification. Walmart has a current ratio of 0.85, suggesting that it has not enough short term capital to pay financial commitments when the payables are due. Note however, debt could still be an excellent tool for Walmart to invest in growth at high rates of return. | |
| About 46.0% of Walmart outstanding shares are owned by insiders | |
| Latest headline from fool.com: Walmarts Flywheel Keeps Spinning |
Walmart Returns Distribution Density
The distribution of Walmart's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Walmart's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Walmart daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Walmart price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Walmart returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Walmart.
| Mean Return | 0.28 | Value At Risk | -1.27 | Potential Upside | 1.69 | Standard Deviation | 1.01 |
Return Density |
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Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Walmart historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.
Walmart Stock Institutional Investors
The Walmart's institutional investors refer to entities that pool money to purchase Walmart's securities or originate loans. These institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds.
| Shares | Northern Trust Corp | 2024-09-30 | 40.1 M | State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins Co | 2024-09-30 | 39.2 M | Legal & General Group Plc | 2024-06-30 | 36.3 M | Ameriprise Financial Inc | 2024-06-30 | 33.7 M | Jpmorgan Chase & Co | 2024-06-30 | 33.6 M | Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 2024-09-30 | 31.2 M | Nuveen Asset Management, Llc | 2024-06-30 | 29.6 M | Bank Of New York Mellon Corp | 2024-06-30 | 28.7 M | Amvescap Plc. | 2024-06-30 | 27 M | Vanguard Group Inc | 2024-09-30 | 420.7 M | Blackrock Inc | 2024-06-30 | 296.9 M |
Walmart Cash Flow Accounts
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (projected) | ||
| Change To Inventory | (300M) | (2.4B) | (11.8B) | (528M) | 2.0B | 2.1B | |
| Change In Cash | 1.8B | 8.3B | (3.0B) | (5.7B) | 1.1B | 1.1B | |
| Free Cash Flow | 14.6B | 25.8B | 11.1B | 12.2B | 15.1B | 8.5B | |
| Depreciation | 11.0B | 11.2B | 10.7B | 10.9B | 11.9B | 6.3B | |
| Other Non Cash Items | 95M | (7.1B) | 6.9B | 3.6B | 6.6B | 6.9B | |
| Dividends Paid | 6.0B | 6.1B | 6.2B | 6.1B | 6.1B | 3.5B | |
| Capital Expenditures | 10.7B | 10.3B | 13.1B | 16.9B | 20.6B | 10.4B | |
| Net Income | 15.2B | 13.7B | 13.9B | 11.3B | 15.5B | 10.5B | |
| End Period Cash Flow | 9.5B | 17.8B | 14.8B | 9.1B | 9.9B | 6.1B | |
| Change Receivables | 154M | (1.1B) | (1.8B) | 240M | 216M | 226.8M | |
| Net Borrowings | (1.1B) | (5.7B) | (5.9B) | 2.3B | 2.1B | 2.2B | |
| Change To Netincome | 430M | 3.4B | 6.4B | 4.1B | 4.7B | 2.7B | |
| Investments | (9.1B) | (10.1B) | (6.0B) | (17.7B) | (21.3B) | (20.2B) |
Walmart Greeks
Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Walmart or Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Walmart's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Walmart stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α | Alpha over Dow Jones | 0.25 | |
β | Beta against Dow Jones | 0.12 | |
σ | Overall volatility | 1.02 | |
Ir | Information ratio | 0.14 |
Walmart Volatility Alert
Walmart has relatively low volatility with skewness of -0.23 and kurtosis of 0.69. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Walmart's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Walmart's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.Walmart Fundamentals Vs Peers
Comparing Walmart's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Walmart's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Walmart and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Walmart or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Walmart's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Walmart by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
| Better Than Average | Worse Than Average | Compare Walmart to competition |
| Fundamentals | Walmart | Peer Average |
| Return On Equity | 0.19 | -0.31 |
| Return On Asset | 0.0695 | -0.14 |
| Profit Margin | 0.02 % | (1.27) % |
| Operating Margin | 0.05 % | (5.51) % |
| Current Valuation | 778.68 B | 16.62 B |
| Shares Outstanding | 8.04 B | 571.82 M |
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 46.38 % | 10.09 % |
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 35.56 % | 39.21 % |
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 31.7 M | 4.71 M |
| Price To Earning | 47.07 X | 28.72 X |
| Price To Book | 8.25 X | 9.51 X |
| Price To Sales | 1.09 X | 11.42 X |
| Revenue | 648.12 B | 9.43 B |
| Gross Profit | 147.57 B | 27.38 B |
| EBITDA | 38.87 B | 3.9 B |
| Net Income | 15.51 B | 570.98 M |
| Cash And Equivalents | 8.88 B | 2.7 B |
| Cash Per Share | 4.27 X | 5.01 X |
| Total Debt | 60.44 B | 5.32 B |
| Debt To Equity | 0.81 % | 48.70 % |
| Current Ratio | 0.87 X | 2.16 X |
| Book Value Per Share | 10.41 X | 1.93 K |
| Cash Flow From Operations | 35.73 B | 971.22 M |
| Short Ratio | 2.59 X | 4.00 X |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.42 X | 3.12 X |
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 2.76 X | 4.89 X |
| Target Price | 95.44 | |
| Number Of Employees | 2.1 M | 18.84 K |
| Beta | 0.52 | -0.15 |
| Market Capitalization | 726.98 B | 19.03 B |
| Total Asset | 252.4 B | 29.47 B |
| Retained Earnings | 89.81 B | 9.33 B |
| Working Capital | (15.54 B) | 1.48 B |
Note: Disposition of tradable shares by Christopher Nicholas of Walmart at 76.03 subject to Rule 16b-3 [view details]
Walmart Market Momentum
Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Walmart . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.
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