Walmart (WBO:WMT) Cash-to-Debt : 0.16 (As of Oct. 2024)

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What is Walmart Cash-to-Debt?

Cash to Debt Ratio measures the financial strength of a company. It is calculated as a company's cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities divide by its debt. Walmart's cash to debt ratio for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was 0.16.

If Cash to Debt ratio is less than 1, the company cannot pay off its debt using the cash in hand. Here we can see, Walmart couldn't pay off its debt using the cash in hand for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024.

The historical rank and industry rank for Walmart's Cash-to-Debt or its related term are showing as below:

WBO:WMT' s Cash-to-Debt Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.11 Med: 0.16 Max: 0.38
Current: 0.16

During the past 13 years, Walmart's highest Cash to Debt Ratio was 0.38. The lowest was 0.11. And the median was 0.16.

WBO:WMT's Cash-to-Debt is ranked worse than
70.13% of 318 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 0.405 vs WBO:WMT: 0.16

Walmart Cash-to-Debt Historical Data

The historical data trend for Walmart's Cash-to-Debt can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Note: An indication of "No Debt" does not necessarily mean that the company has no debt obligations; it could be due to missing data in the quarterly or annual report. Use caution when interpreting this information.

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Walmart Cash-to-Debt Chart

Walmart Annual Data

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Jan24

Cash-to-Debt

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0.13

0.28

0.26

0.15

0.16

Walmart Quarterly Data
	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24	Apr24	Jul24	Oct24
Cash-to-Debt	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.17	0.16	0.15	0.14	0.16

Competitive Comparison of Walmart's Cash-to-Debt

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart's Cash-to-Debt, along with its competitors' market caps and Cash-to-Debt 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 Cash-to-Debt Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Walmart's Cash-to-Debt distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Walmart's Cash-to-Debt falls into.

Walmart Cash-to-Debt Calculation

This is the ratio of a company's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities to its debt. The debt includes the Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation. This ratio measures the financial strength of a company. This ratio is updated quarterly.

Walmart's Cash to Debt Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as:

Cash to Debt Ratio	=	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	/	Total Debt
	=	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	/	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)
	=	9057.906	/	(6000.966	+	50291.712)
	=	0.16

Walmart's Cash to Debt Ratio for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 is calculated as:

Cash to Debt Ratio	=	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	/	Total Debt
	=	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	/	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)
	=	9224.982	/	(8373.078	+	48312.504)
	=	0.16

Walmart (WBO:WMT) Cash-to-Debt Explanation

If Cash to Debt ratio is greater than 1, the company can pay off its debt using the cash in hand. If it is smaller than 1, it means the company has more debt than the cash in hands. In this case, it is important to look the the company's Interest Coverage. Ben Graham requires that a company must have an Interest Coverage of at least 5.

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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 4,600 stores in the United States (5,200 including Sam's Club) and over 10,000 locations globally. Walmart generated over $440 billion in domestic namesake sales in fiscal 2024, with Sam's Club contributing another $86 billion to the company's top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $115 billion in sales. The retailer serves around 240 million customers globally each week.