The current trading zone is interesting to the point that investors should pay attention to the stock and anticipate a return of the underlying upward trend.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
● The company's MSCI ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.
Strengths
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
● The company sustains low margins.
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 40.22 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
● In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.
● The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
● The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
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Walmart Inc. is the world's leading distribution group. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- distribution in the United States and Porto Rico (81.9%): this activity is performed, at the end of January 2025, through the following names: Wal-Mart (83.7% of net sales; reduced-price retail distribution; 4,615 outlets, of which 3,559 supermarkets, 355 discount outlets, and 691 convenience stores), and Sam's Club (16.3%; 600 warehouses accessible to members only in the United States);
- international distribution (18.1%): 5,566 points of sales located in Mexico, Central America, China, Africa, Canada, Chile and India.
This super rating is the result of a weighted average of the rankings based on the following ratings: Valuation (Composite), EPS Revisions (4 months), and Visibility (Composite). We recommend that you carefully review the associated descriptions.
Investor
Investor
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Global
Global
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Quality
Quality
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ESG MSCI
ESG MSCI
The MSCI ESG score assesses a company’s environmental, social, and governance practices relative to its industry peers. Companies are rated from CCC (laggard) to AAA (leader). This rating helps investors incorporate sustainability risks and opportunities into their investment decisions.
