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Walmart (NEOE:WMT) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio : 8.97 (As of Jul. 05, 2025)


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What is Walmart Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio?

As of today (2025-07-05), Walmart's current share price is C$41.64. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 was C$4.64. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is 8.97.

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: 4.73   Max: 9.73
Current: 9.12

During the past years, Walmart's highest Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio was 9.73. The lowest was 2.77. And the median was 4.73.

NEOE:WMT's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio is ranked worse than
90.46% of 241 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 1.68 vs NEOE:WMT: 9.12

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 Apr. 2025 was C$4.662. 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$4.64 for the trailing ten years ended in Apr. 2025.

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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 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24 Jan25
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.43 4.93 4.76 5.31 9.18

Walmart Quarterly Data
Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24 Jan25 Apr25
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 5.62 6.49 7.71 9.18 9.01

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.


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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
=41.64/4.64
=8.97

* 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 Apr. 2025 is calculated as:

For example, Walmart's adjusted Book Value per Share data for the three months ended in Apr. 2025 was:

Adj_Book=Book Value per Share/CPI of Apr. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Apr. 2025)
=4.662/135.3468*135.3468
=4.662

Current CPI (Apr. 2025) = 135.3468.

Walmart Quarterly Data

Book Value per Share CPI Adj_Book
201507 3.342 100.691 4.492
201510 3.432 100.346 4.629
201601 3.834 99.957 5.191
201604 3.266 100.947 4.379
201607 3.416 101.524 4.554
201610 3.542 101.988 4.701
201701 3.564 102.456 4.708
201704 3.470 103.167 4.552
201707 3.431 103.278 4.496
201710 3.426 104.070 4.456
201801 3.473 104.578 4.495
201804 3.453 105.708 4.421
201807 3.374 106.324 4.295
201810 3.405 106.695 4.319
201901 3.522 106.200 4.489
201904 3.377 107.818 4.239
201907 3.429 108.250 4.287
201910 3.526 108.577 4.395
202001 3.697 108.841 4.597
202004 3.585 108.173 4.486
202007 3.799 109.318 4.704
202010 4.027 109.861 4.961
202101 3.867 110.364 4.742
202104 3.696 112.673 4.440
202107 3.829 115.183 4.499
202110 3.901 116.696 4.524
202201 4.031 118.619 4.599
202204 3.743 121.978 4.153
202207 3.905 125.002 4.228
202210 3.879 125.734 4.176
202301 4.038 126.223 4.330
202304 3.839 127.992 4.060
202307 4.135 128.974 4.339
202310 4.285 129.810 4.468
202401 4.441 130.124 4.619
202404 4.389 132.289 4.490
202407 4.579 132.708 4.670
202410 4.794 133.182 4.872
202501 5.186 134.029 5.237
202504 4.662 135.347 4.662

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 is a leading 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 $460 billion in domestic namesake sales in fiscal 2025, with Sam's Club contributing another $90 billion to the company's top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $120 billion in sales. The retailer serves around 270 million customers globally each week.