Walmart (XSWX:WMT) Forward Dividend Yield % : 1.84% (As of May. 11, 2024)

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What is Walmart Forward Dividend Yield %?

As of today (2024-05-11), the Forward Annual Dividend Yield of Walmart is 1.84%.

As of today (2024-05-11), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Walmart is 1.86%.

XSWX:WMT's Forward Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than
81.16% of 207 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 2.79 vs XSWX:WMT: 1.84

Walmart's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was CHF0.00.

During the past 12 months, Walmart's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 1.70% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 1.80% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 1.90% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 1.90% per year.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Walmart was 71.00% per year. The lowest was 1.80% per year. And the median was 16.70% per year.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

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Competitive Comparison of Walmart's Forward Dividend Yield %

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart's Forward Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Forward Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Walmart's Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Walmart's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Walmart's Forward Dividend Yield % falls into.

Walmart Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation

Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Walmart (XSWX:WMT) Forward Dividend Yield % Explanation

Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.

Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.

In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.

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Walmart (XSWX:WMT) Business Description

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Address

702 S.W. 8th Street, Bentonville, AR, USA, 72716

Website

https://stock.walmart.com

Walmart serves as the preeminent retailer in the United States, with its strategy predicated on superior operating efficiency and offering the lowest priced goods to consumers to drive robust store traffic and product turnover. Walmart augmented its low-price business strategy by offering a convenient one-stop shopping destination with the opening of its first supercenter in 1988.Today, Walmart operates over 4,700 stores in the United States (5,300 including Sam's Club) and over 10,000 stores globally. Walmart generated over $420 billion in domestic namesake sales last year, with Sam's Club contributing another $84 billion to the firm's top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $100 billion in sales. The company serves around 240 million customers globally each week.