Walmart Inc. (WMT) Rises 1.33%

Walmart Inc. is a America’s largest retailer by sales, Walmart operates over 11,500 stores under 56 banners, selling a variety of general merchandise and grocery items.

Among the biggest risers on the S&P 500 on Friday March 19 was Walmart Inc. ($WMT), popping some 1.33% to a price of $131.74 a share with some 19.01 million shares trading hands.

Starting the day trading at $130.13, Walmart Inc. reached an intraday high of $132.50 and hit intraday lows of $129.90. Shares gained $1.73 apiece by day’s end. Over the last 90 days, the stock’s average daily volume has been n/a of its 2.83 billion share total float. Today’s action puts the stock’s 50-day SMA at $n/a and 200-day SMA at $n/a with a 52-week range of $106.85 to $153.66.

America’s largest retailer by sales, Walmart operates over 11,500 stores under 56 banners, selling a variety of general merchandise and grocery items. Its home market accounted for 77% of sales in fiscal 2020, with Mexico and Central America (6%), the United Kingdom (6%), and Canada (4%) its largest external markets. In the United States, around 56% of sales come from grocery, 34% from general merchandise, and 10% from health and wellness items. The company operates several e-commerce properties apart from its eponymous site, including Flipkart and shoes.com (it also owns a roughly 10% stake in Chinese online retailer JD.com). Combined, e-commerce accounted for about 7% of fiscal 2020 sales.

Walmart Inc. has its corporate headquarters located in Bentonville, AR and employs 2.2 million people. Its market cap has now risen to $372.73 billion after today’s trading, its P/E ratio is now n/a, its P/S n/a, P/B 4.59, and P/FCF n/a.