WMT · NASDAQ · Discount Stores
Walmart Inc. is one of the world’s largest retail companies, operating across grocery, general merchandise, pharmacy, e-commerce, membership retail, advertising, marketplace services, and financial services.
Current price
$115.87
▲ +$3.59 (3.20%) today
ET&A View
Last reviewed 17 September 2026
ET&A likes the company but would prefer investors to build exposure gradually.
Walmart is evolving from a low-margin traditional retailer into a more diversified commerce platform in which e-commerce, marketplace, advertising and membership revenue increasingly complement its enormous physical retail…
Business Health
Is the business financially healthy?
Mostly healthy
Earnings and the balance sheet stand out. Watch margins.
Overall
Revenue
$735.8bn · ↑ +5% last year
Earnings
$22.1bn · ↑ +13% last year
Margins
Keeps 3% of sales as operating profit
Cash generation
$14.9bn spare cash a year · 2% of sales
Balance sheet
Debt ≈ 1.4 years of earnings
Dividend
0.9% yield · Pays out 35% of earnings · covered 2.9×
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Walmart is evolving from a low-margin traditional retailer into a more diversified commerce platform in which e-commerce, marketplace, advertising and membership revenue increasingly complement its enormous physical…
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Reported annual results, newest first · Market data. “Growth” is the change in sales on the year before.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Operating margin | Net income | EPS | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | $713.2bn | +4.7% | 4.2% | $21.9bn | $2.73 | $14.9bn |
| FY2025 | $681.0bn | +5.1% | 4.3% | $19.4bn | $2.41 | $12.7bn |
| FY2024 | $648.1bn | +6.0% | 4.2% | $15.5bn | $1.91 | $15.1bn |
| FY2023 | $611.3bn | — | 3.3% | $11.7bn | $1.42 | $12.0bn |
Long-term growth investors
Also suits: Investors who want a mix of growth and stability
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
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Walmart Inc. is one of the world’s largest retail companies, operating across grocery, general merchandise, pharmacy, e-commerce, membership retail, advertising, marketplace services, and financial services. The company serves hundreds of millions of customers through its physical stores, digital platforms, Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam’s Club, making it one of the most important consumer-facing businesses globally.
Walmart’s strength comes from its scale, low-price positioning, supply chain efficiency, store network, and growing digital ecosystem. Its business benefits from everyday consumer spending across essentials such as food, household goods, health products, and general merchandise, while its investments in e-commerce, delivery, advertising, data, automation, and membership services give it additional growth channels. This makes Walmart a major consumer staples and retail infrastructure company with defensive qualities and long-term exposure to digital retail transformation.
Discount Stores · USA
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As of 14 October 2026
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ET&A Score: ET&A's overall assessment of business quality, valuation, growth and risk, out of 10. It weighs business quality, financial strength, growth, valuation, risk, future prospects.
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The automatic, rules-based scores that feed our research. The ET&A Score blends these with our own analysis of the business and its value. How the framework works →
Unprofitable · Sound · Neutral
Context — not part of the score
Valuation and share-price swings describe the shares, not the company, so they are judged in the ET&A Score and View instead.
Based on the factors that could be measured (45% of the model).
Each area is scored from 0 to 10 on ET&A’s methodology scales — the same ones our research uses — then given a word: Excellent from 8.5, Strong from 7, Good from 5.5, Average from 4.5, Below Average from 3, Weak below 3. The overall answer is the average of the areas we could rate (at least three); the dividend isn’t part of it.
| Area | Based on | Score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue |
Rated on 3-year average revenue growth, on ET&A's growth scale. | 5.6 / 10 | Good |
| Earnings |
Rated on 3-year average earnings growth, on ET&A's growth scale. | 9.3 / 10 | Excellent |
| Margins |
The average of operating and net margin, each scored on ET&A's margin scales. A negative margin scores 1 (Weak). | 3.8 / 10 | Below Average |
| Cash generation |
Free cash flow as a share of sales, on ET&A's cash-generation scale. | 4.8 / 10 | Average |
| Balance sheet |
Net debt ÷ EBITDA — roughly how many years of operating earnings would repay the debt — on ET&A's leverage scale. | 7.1 / 10 | Strong |
| Dividend |
Dividend yield on ET&A's income scale. Not part of the overall health rating. | 2.8 / 10 | Weak |
| Overall | Average of the 5 rated areas | 6.1 / 10 | Good |
Where each band starts on the scales above. They are fixed and identical for every company we cover; they come straight from ET&A’s methodology, so a company is judged the same way here as in our research.
| Measure | Excellent | Strong | Good | Average | Below Average | Weak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrowthStructural Growth (Fundamental Conviction) | 18%+ | 10%+ | 5.0%+ | 1.7%+ | −2.5%+ | below −2.5% |
| Operating marginCompetitive Position (Fundamental Conviction) | 29%+ | 20%+ | 13%+ | 7.5%+ | 0%+ | below 0% (loss) |
| Net marginEarnings Durability (Fundamental Conviction) | 23%+ | 15%+ | 9.8%+ | 6.0%+ | 0%+ | below 0% (loss) |
| Free-cash-flow marginCapital Allocation (Fundamental Conviction) | 15%+ | 8.5%+ | 3.8%+ | 1.3%+ | −2.5%+ | below −2.5% |
| Net debt ÷ EBITDAStructural Risk (Fundamental Conviction) | net cash | ≤ 1.5× | ≤ 2.8× | ≤ 3.6× | ≤ 5.0× | above 5.0× |
| Return on equity (banks & insurers)Bank and insurer quality | 16%+ | 12%+ | 9.0%+ | 6.7%+ | 2.7%+ | below 2.7% |
| Equity ÷ assetsBank capital | 7.5%+ | 6.0%+ | 4.7%+ | 4.0%+ | any | — |
| Dividend yieldIncome factor (ET&A Quant Score) | 5.8%+ | 4.0%+ | 2.5%+ | 1.8%+ | 1.0%+ | below 1.0% |
Band floors: Excellent 8.5 · Strong 7 · Good 5.5 · Average 4.5 · Below Average 3 (scores out of 10). Utilities and property companies’ structural debt is scored 6.5, as in ET&A’s risk model.
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