The PS Ratio, or Price-to-Sales ratio, or Price/Sales, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Revenue per Share. As of today, Walmart's share price is $162.50.
Walmart's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2023 was $233.09. Hence, Walmart's PS Ratio for today is 0.70.
Warning Sign:
Walmart Inc stock PS Ratio (=0.7) is close to 2-year high of 0.77
The historical rank and industry rank for Walmart's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
WMT'
s PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.38 Med: 0.56 Max: 0.79
Current: 0.7
During the past 13 years, Walmart's highest PS Ratio was 0.79. The lowest was 0.38. And the median was 0.56.
WMT's PS Ratio is ranked worse than 63.93% of 305
companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 0.44
vs WMT: 0.70
Walmart's Revenue per Sharefor the
three
months ended in Jul. 2023 was $59.80.
Its Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2023 was $233.09.
During the past 12 months, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate of Walmart was 9.90% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 7.00% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 6.00% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 4.70% per year.
During the past 13 years, Walmart's highest 3-Year average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 35.80% per year. The lowest was 2.50% per year. And the median was 12.20% per year.
Back to Basics: PS Ratio
Walmart PS Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Walmart's 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 Annual Data
Trend
Jan14
Jan15
Jan16
Jan17
Jan18
Jan19
Jan20
Jan21
Jan22
Jan23
PS Ratio
0.55
0.63
0.72
0.68
0.64
Walmart Quarterly Data
Oct18
Jan19
Apr19
Jul19
Oct19
Jan20
Apr20
Jul20
Oct20
Jan21
Apr21
Jul21
Oct21
Jan22
Apr22
Jul22
Oct22
Jan23
Apr23
Jul23
PS Ratio
0.62
0.65
0.64
0.66
0.69
Competitive Comparison
For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart's PS Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 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 PS Ratio Distribution
For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Walmart's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Walmart's PS Ratio falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the PS Ratio's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.
Walmart PS Ratio Calculation
The PS Ratio, or Price-to-Sales ratio, or Price/Sales, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Revenue per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks and it was first used by Ken Fisher.
Walmart's Share Price of today is $162.50.
Walmart's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $233.09.
* 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.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
The PS Ratio is an excellent valuation indicator if you want to compare a stock with its historical valuation or with the stocks in the same industry. The PS Ratio works especially well when you want to compare the stock's current valuation with its historical valuation. The PS Ratio is a great valuation tool for evaluating cyclical businesses where the PE Ratio works poorly. It works the best when comparing the current valuation with the historical valuation because over time, a company's profit margin tends to revert to the mean.
When the PS Ratio is applied to the whole stock market, it can be used to evaluate the current market valuation and projected returns. In this case, the price is the total market cap of all stocks that are traded, and sales are the GDP of the country. This is how Warren Buffett estimates the broad market valuation and project future returns.
The PS Ratio does not tell you how cheap or expensive the stock is. It cannot be used to compare companies in different industries. It works better for companies within the same industry because these companies tend to have similar capital structures and profit margins. It works the best when comparing a company with itself in the past.
Walmart PS Ratio Related Terms
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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.
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