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Re: Walmart (WMT)

Postby winston » Tue May 22, 2018 9:56 am

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Blue-Chip Stocks That Aren’t Really Blue Chips: Walmart

Yeah, I’ll say it. Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT) is no longer a blue-chip stock. I’ve got a company whose net income has fallen from $14.7 billion in 2015 to $9.9 billion last year.

That’s an earnings decline, people.

Again, I’m not going to complain about the free cash flow of $18 billion, and ensure investors are happy with their piddling 2.4% yield.

But I’m not paying 25 times earnings for a company whose main competition is now Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and whose earnings have been cut by almost one-third in the past two years.

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Re: Walmart (WMT)

Postby winston » Sat May 26, 2018 9:06 pm

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Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) shares have dropped out of a three-month consolidation range to return to test the lows set earlier this month and threaten a drop back to levels last seen in October.

With it falling further away from its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, and down nearly 24% from its January high, shareholders have been frustrated by an intense competitive environment in retail and the reporting of weak same-store sales growth last quarter.

The company will next report results on Aug. 16 before the bell. Analysts are looking for earnings of $1.22 per share on revenues of $124.9 billion.

When the company last reported on May 17, earnings of $1.14 beat estimates by two cents on a 4.4% rise in revenues.

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Re: Walmart (WMT)

Postby winston » Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:52 pm

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Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT)

If you paid attention to the talking heads on CNBC, it would be easy to think that nobody shops in actual stores anymore and that everyone buys everything on Amazon. However, the death of retail has been greatly overstated.

Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) just had its best year since the early dot-com days and more growth could be in store for this Dow Jones mainstay.

Wal-Mart doesn't quite meet Amazon's online sales, but it's e-commerce efforts are nothing to pass over. Wal-Mart has gone all-in on e-commerce to keep up with up with online shopping trends.

The company recently purchased Jet.com and a number of other smaller shopping sites. It has added more online shopping and pick-up options and increased the number of SKUs for sale on Walmart.com. These efforts are working and online sales metrics are steadily improving for Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart also just announced a new scan and go smartphone app that will allow customers to skip checkout lines entirely. Customers can simply pay for their items on their phone before they leave without ever having to deal with a cashier or one of their automated checkout systems. This move will allow Wal-Mart to reduce its labor costs even further, expand their margins further and cut costs for consumers.

Some still think Wal-Mart is a stumbling retail giant unprepared for the e-commerce revolution, but Wal-Mart's recent retail efforts prove that is anything but the case. Wal-Mart is arguably the best retailer on the Dow 30.

About Walmart

Walmart Inc. engages in the retail and wholesale operations in various formats worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam's Club.

It operates supercenters, supermarkets, hypermarkets, warehouse clubs, cash and carry stores, discount stores, drugstores, and convenience stores; membership-only warehouse clubs; e-commerce Websites, such as walmart.com, jet.com, hayneedle.com, shoes.com, moosejaw.com, modcloth.com, bonobos.com, and samsclub.com; and mobile commerce and voice-activated commerce applications.

In addition, the company offers fuel and financial services and related products, including money orders, prepaid cards, wire and money transfers, check cashing, and bill payment, as well as consumer credit services.

It operates 11,700 stores and various e-commerce Websites under the 65 banners in 28 countries. The company was formerly known as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and changed its name to Walmart Inc. in February 2018. Walmart Inc. was founded in 1945 and is based in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Current Price: $84.30
Consensus Rating: Hold
Ratings Breakdown: 15 Buy Ratings, 17 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
Consensus Price Target: $96.2414 (14.2% Upside)

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Re: Walmart (WMT)

Postby winston » Wed Jul 04, 2018 3:47 pm

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Stocks at Risk: Wal-Mart (WMT)

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) shares are lurching lower, dropping to the lower end of a trading range going back to March as Congress works on a bill that could impose work requirements for food stamp recipients.

This is seen as a negative for discount retailers, ostensibly on a negative impact to the number of Americans getting food stamps.

The retailer is also vulnerable to an increase in the cost of imported goods.

The company will next report results on Aug. 16 before the bell. Analysts are looking for earnings of $1.22 per share on revenues of $124.8 billion.

When the company last reported on May 17, earnings of $1.14 beat estimates by two cents on a 4.4% rise in revenues.

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Re: Walmart (WMT)

Postby winston » Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:33 pm

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Subscription Service Stocks With Big Growth: Walmart (WMT)

Traditional retail giant Walmart (NYSE:WMT) isn’t a full-blown subscription service company. Yet. Walmart has dabbled in subscription service “boxes”, wherein Walmart customers pay a fee to get certain curated products delivered to them (see the Beauty Box). Outside of that, though, Walmart has strayed away from the subscription world.

Until now. Walmart is reportedly launching a subscription video streaming service to compete with the likes of Netflix. That is a huge pivot away from Walmart’s traditional line of business. But, it shows that Walmart is taking aggressive steps to be more and more like Amazon.

The big thing that separates Amazon is Prime. If Walmart builds a streaming service, that is a big step towards establishing a basis for a Walmart retail subscription service in the future.

Inevitably, I think this will happen over the next several years. As this transition plays out, Walmart’s numbers should get better alongside improving investor sentiment, a combination which should send WMT stock higher.

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Re: Walmart (WMT)

Postby winston » Thu Aug 09, 2018 11:13 am

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Charts: Walmart

In the last five months, shares of Walmart have made a rounding bottom pattern, hitting two low points — known as a double bottom among technicians — in the week of May 7 and the week of May 29.

Six weeks ago, shares headed higher, with Walmart's stock settling at $89.77 a share as of Tuesday's close.

Walmart's stock was already trading higher in a tight range, but since the start of July, it has rallied within an even tighter range.

That created two floors of support — at $87 and $88 — in addition to the third floor of $82, where the stock bottomed in May.

"According to Collins, this is a great way to define your risk," Cramer said. "If the stock goes below $87, roughly $3 bucks down from where it is, he'd become more cautious; if it breaks down below $82, he'd tell you to abandon the bull thesis and simply cut your losses."

But based on Walmart's latest rally and the Chande Trend Meter, a key indicator that distills a bunch of metrics into a single score, Collins said shares of Walmart are poised to rally.

In fact, if the stock surges past the $90.50 level, "he's betting it'll be smooth sailing all the way up to $103 bucks as it fills in the gap from the big late-February decline," Cramer said.

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Re: Walmart (WMT)

Postby winston » Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:23 am

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Earnings Reports to Watch: Walmart (WMT)

Earnings Report Date: Thursday, August 16 before market open

The country’s biggest retailer, Walmart (NYSE:WMT), likely will set the tone for the retail space with its fiscal Q3 report. (Most retailers end their fiscal years in January, putting their earnings reports a month behind those on a calendar year.) But the report is hugely important for Walmart itself.

After all, WMT still hasn’t recovered from a big Q4 miss that changed the narrative surrounding the stock. Heading into that report in February, it looked like a series of moves, including the acquisition of Jet.com, had made Walmart a legitimate rival to Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) in ‘omnichannel’ retailing. Q4 results undercut that argument. As a result, Walmart stock still trades 19% below January highs, and down about 15% from levels reached just before that release.

Another miss with Q1 numbers didn’t help the cause, either, but investors are starting to back WMT again. The stock touched a five-month high this week ahead of Thursday’s release.

If Walmart can show some good numbers, the bull case here can be resurrected. If not, investors probably start again worrying about competition from Amazon, Target (NYSE:TGT), and everyone else. In that scenario, WMT stock likely slides even further.

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Re: Walmart (WMT)

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Earnings Reports to Watch: Walmart (WMT)

Earnings Report Date: Thursday, August 16 before market open

The country’s biggest retailer, Walmart (NYSE:WMT), likely will set the tone for the retail space with its fiscal Q3 report. (Most retailers end their fiscal years in January, putting their earnings reports a month behind those on a calendar year.) But the report is hugely important for Walmart itself.

After all, WMT still hasn’t recovered from a big Q4 miss that changed the narrative surrounding the stock. Heading into that report in February, it looked like a series of moves, including the acquisition of Jet.com, had made Walmart a legitimate rival to Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) in ‘omnichannel’ retailing. Q4 results undercut that argument. As a result, Walmart stock still trades 19% below January highs, and down about 15% from levels reached just before that release.

Another miss with Q1 numbers didn’t help the cause, either, but investors are starting to back WMT again. The stock touched a five-month high this week ahead of Thursday’s release.

If Walmart can show some good numbers, the bull case here can be resurrected. If not, investors probably start again worrying about competition from Amazon, Target (NYSE:TGT), and everyone else. In that scenario, WMT stock likely slides even further.

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Re: Walmart (WMT)

Postby winston » Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:01 pm

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Walmart's (WMT) Japanese supermarket unit Seiyu, is drawing interest from Japan discount retailer Don Quijote Holdings, which said it would be interested in buying Seiyu if Walmart puts it up for sale.

The Nikkei business daily had reported last month that Walmart would sell Seiyu, but Walmart responded by saying it had not decided to sell.

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Re: Walmart (WMT)

Postby winston » Thu Aug 16, 2018 4:13 pm

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Stock Charts to Watch: Walmart (WMT)

The missing ingredient here is volume – there’s not much of it.

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