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Walmart (LIM:WMT) Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio : 1.28 (As of Jun. 01, 2025)


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What is Walmart Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio?

As of today (2025-06-01), Walmart's current share price is $97.10. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 was $76.15. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio for today is 1.28.

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

LIM:WMT' s Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.44   Med: 0.71   Max: 1.36
Current: 1.27

During the past years, Walmart's highest Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio was 1.36. The lowest was 0.44. And the median was 0.71.

LIM:WMT's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio is ranked worse than
79.62% of 211 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 0.52 vs LIM:WMT: 1.27

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 PS Ratio. The Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted revenue per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Walmart's adjusted revenue per share data for the three months ended in Apr. 2025 was $20.570. Add all the adjusted revenue per share for the past 10 years together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share, which is $76.15 for the trailing ten years ended in Apr. 2025.

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Walmart Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PS 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 PS Ratio Chart

Walmart Annual Data
Trend Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24 Jan25
Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.82 0.74 0.70 0.76 1.29

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 PS 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 0.80 0.92 1.09 1.29 1.26

Competitive Comparison of Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio

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

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

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


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Walmart Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Calculation

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

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

Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share
=97.10/76.15
=1.28

* 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 Revenue per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 is calculated as:

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

Adj_RevenuePerShare=Revenue per Share/CPI of Apr. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Apr. 2025)
=20.57/135.3468*135.3468
=20.570

Current CPI (Apr. 2025) = 135.3468.

Walmart Quarterly Data

Revenue per Share CPI Adj_RevenuePerShare
201507 12.404 100.691 16.673
201510 12.158 100.346 16.399
201601 13.613 99.957 18.433
201604 12.249 100.947 16.423
201607 12.916 101.524 17.219
201610 12.707 101.988 16.863
201701 14.189 102.456 18.744
201704 12.859 103.167 16.870
201707 13.611 103.278 17.837
201710 13.705 104.070 17.824
201801 15.258 104.578 19.747
201804 13.784 105.708 17.649
201807 14.486 106.324 18.440
201810 14.156 106.695 17.957
201901 15.887 106.200 20.247
201904 14.313 107.818 17.967
201907 15.148 108.250 18.940
201910 14.912 108.577 18.589
202001 16.535 108.841 20.562
202004 15.751 108.173 19.708
202007 16.121 109.318 19.960
202010 15.761 109.861 19.417
202101 17.843 110.364 21.882
202104 16.297 112.673 19.577
202107 16.720 115.183 19.647
202110 16.747 116.696 19.424
202201 18.323 118.619 20.907
202204 17.067 121.978 18.938
202207 18.562 125.002 20.098
202210 18.789 125.734 20.225
202301 20.200 126.223 21.660
202304 18.775 127.992 19.854
202307 19.935 128.974 20.920
202310 19.828 129.810 20.674
202401 21.401 130.124 22.260
202404 19.979 132.289 20.441
202407 20.955 132.708 21.372
202410 20.983 133.182 21.324
202501 22.351 134.029 22.571
202504 20.570 135.347 20.570

Add all the adjusted revenue per share together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted Revenue 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  (LIM:WMT) Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PS Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of revenue 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 PS Ratio should give similar results to regular PS 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.