Walmart (LIM:WMT) Debt-to-Equity : 0.70 (As of Oct. 2024)

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What is Walmart Debt-to-Equity?

Walmart's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was $9,121 Mil. Walmart's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was $52,628 Mil. Walmart's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was $88,108 Mil. Walmart's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was 0.70.

A high debt to equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings as a result of the additional interest expense.

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

LIM:WMT' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.59 Med: 0.76 Max: 1.11
Current: 0.7

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of Walmart was 1.11. The lowest was 0.59. And the median was 0.76.

LIM:WMT's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than
55.79% of 285 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 0.55 vs LIM:WMT: 0.70

Walmart Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

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

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* 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 Debt-to-Equity Chart

Walmart Annual Data

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Jan24

Debt-to-Equity

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0.97

0.78

0.69

0.77

0.73

Walmart Quarterly Data
	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24	Apr24	Jul24	Oct24
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.88	0.73	0.79	0.73	0.70

Competitive Comparison of Walmart's Debt-to-Equity

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

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

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

Walmart Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

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

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(6537	+	54784)	/	83861
	=	0.73

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

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(9121	+	52628)	/	88108
	=	0.70

Walmart (LIM:WMT) Debt-to-Equity Explanation

In the calculation of Debt to Equity, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by Total Stockholders Equity. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high ROE % companies.

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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 4,600 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.