About Walmart Inc.
Walmart Inc. (WMT) is a Consumer Cyclical company in the Retail-Variety Stores industry with a market capitalisation of $854.8B. The stock trades at 38.68x trailing earnings and yields 0.91%.
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Retail-Variety Stores
- Market cap
- $854.8B
- P/E ratio
- 38.68
- EPS (TTM)
- $2.73
- Revenue (TTM)
- $706.4B
- Free cash flow
- $14.9B
- Profit margin
- 3.1%
- Dividend yield
- 0.91%
- Shares outstanding
- 7.9B
Financial health: Fair7/10
6 strengths, 2 concerns. Weakest points: current ratio, net margin.
- Debt to equity: 0.38 (Strong, benchmark < 0.5) — Debt of 0.38x equity is conservative against the 0.5x benchmark. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Net debt vs cash flow: 1.8y (Strong, benchmark < 4 years) — Net debt of $27.4B is 1.8x annual free cash flow — about 2 years of cash flow to repay.
- Current ratio: 0.79 (Concern, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover only 0.79x short-term liabilities — below 1.0, meaning bills due this year exceed the assets on hand to pay them. It has been broadly flat over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 22.0% (Strong, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 22.0% on shareholder equity, comfortably past the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 25.2% (Watch, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 25.2% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, short of the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 3.1% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 3.1% of revenue into profit, well short of the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $14.9B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $14.9B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 4.7% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 4.7% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: 12.6% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed 12.6% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Payout ratio: 34.3% (Strong, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 34.3% of earnings as dividends, leaving room to keep paying.