Walmart Inc
NYSE: WMT
$80.44
-$0.83 (-1.0%)
Closing Price on October 2, 2024
WMT Articles
Each January, 24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead. This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is likely to pass Exxon Mobil (NYSE:...
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It takes a recession to slow what has normally been runaway U.S. health care costs. The trend may be part of a road map to keep costs down. These costs have risen at close to double digits in some...
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It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% and the...
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After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name. A report from Bloomberg calls Best Buy a private...
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The long slow death march at Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is turning into a case study of what not do. Putting a hedge fund manager in charge of a huge retailer, and then letting the...
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Jon OggMost investors are likely glad that 2012 is here to have 2011 behind them. This is an election year and many investors are wondering whether the U.S. and its large companies can escape the...
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The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the whole picture is actually...
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As each new year replaces the prior year, 24/7 Wall St. looks at the individual targets on all 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average price targets from Wall Street analysts to come up with a peak price for...
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Customer service surveys cannot entirely distinguish between true, direct customer service on the one hand and brand perception and reputation of the company providing the service on the other. A...
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What Eddie Lampert put together in 2005 could be broken into pieces again, and that might be the only realistic way to “fix” Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD). Lampert engineered a merger of Sears...
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The numbers do not add up. Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) has over 4,000 full-line and specialty stores. Same-store sales for the eight weeks that ended December 25 were down 5.2%. That figure...
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Retailers were hoping to put a solid close to the holiday shopping season with plentiful day-after-Christmas sales aimed at wringing out shoppers’ last dollar. That was probably wishful thinking at...
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Investors walked away from several retail stocks late this year. Those companies probably will continue to falter in 2012 and 2013. Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Gap (NYSE: GPS) and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ:...
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