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Walmart (NEOE:WMT) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio : 7.46 (As of Sep. 23, 2024)


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What is Walmart Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio?

As of today (2024-09-23), Walmart's current share price is C$34.48. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2024 was C$4.62. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is 7.46.

The historical rank and industry rank for Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

NEOE:WMT' s Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.77   Med: 4.51   Max: 7.62
Current: 7.47

During the past years, Walmart's highest Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio was 7.62. The lowest was 2.77. And the median was 4.51.

NEOE:WMT's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio is ranked worse than
90.78% of 206 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 1.595 vs NEOE:WMT: 7.47

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio. The Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted book value per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Walmart's adjusted book value per share data for the three months ended in Jul. 2024 was C$4.579. Add all the adjusted book value per share for the past 10 years together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share, which is C$4.62 for the trailing ten years ended in Jul. 2024.

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Walmart Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio 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.

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Walmart Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Chart

Walmart Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.58 5.43 4.93 4.76 5.31

Walmart Quarterly Data
Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.18 5.26 5.31 5.62 6.49

Competitive Comparison of Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio 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 Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio falls into.



Walmart Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio takes the Book Value per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/B calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPB Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio.

Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share
=34.48/4.62
=7.46

* 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.

Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2024 is calculated as:

For example, Walmart's adjusted Book Value per Share data for the three months ended in Jul. 2024 was:

Adj_Book=Book Value per Share/CPI of Jul. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Jul. 2024)
=4.579/132.7078*132.7078
=4.579

Current CPI (Jul. 2024) = 132.7078.

Walmart Quarterly Data

Book Value per Share CPI Adj_Book
201410 2.911 100.176 3.856
201501 3.238 98.604 4.358
201504 3.101 99.824 4.123
201507 3.342 100.691 4.405
201510 3.432 100.346 4.539
201601 3.834 99.957 5.090
201604 3.266 100.947 4.294
201607 3.416 101.524 4.465
201610 3.542 101.988 4.609
201701 3.564 102.456 4.616
201704 3.470 103.167 4.464
201707 3.431 103.278 4.409
201710 3.426 104.070 4.369
201801 3.473 104.578 4.407
201804 3.453 105.708 4.335
201807 3.374 106.324 4.211
201810 3.405 106.695 4.235
201901 3.522 106.200 4.401
201904 3.377 107.818 4.157
201907 3.429 108.250 4.204
201910 3.526 108.577 4.310
202001 3.697 108.841 4.508
202004 3.585 108.173 4.398
202007 3.799 109.318 4.612
202010 4.027 109.861 4.864
202101 3.867 110.364 4.650
202104 3.696 112.673 4.353
202107 3.829 115.183 4.412
202110 3.901 116.696 4.436
202201 4.031 118.619 4.510
202204 3.743 121.978 4.072
202207 3.905 125.002 4.146
202210 3.879 125.734 4.094
202301 4.038 126.223 4.245
202304 3.839 127.992 3.980
202307 4.135 128.974 4.255
202310 4.285 129.810 4.381
202401 4.441 130.124 4.529
202404 4.389 132.289 4.403
202407 4.579 132.708 4.579

Add all the adjusted book value per share together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


Walmart  (NEOE:WMT) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PB Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of book value during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio should give similar results to regular PB Ratio.


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Walmart Business Description

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