Walmart (NYSE:WMT) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

: 1.54 (As of Today)

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Walmart's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was 1.54.

The historical rank and industry rank for Walmart's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:

WMT' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.51 Med: 2.37 Max: 3.8
Current: 1.54

During the past 13 years, Walmart's highest Yield on Cost was 3.80. The lowest was 1.51. And the median was 2.37.

WMT's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
77.11% of 201 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 2.71 vs WMT: 1.54

Competitive Comparison

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % 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.

Annual Data Quarterly Data

Walmart 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Walmart's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Walmart's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %'s extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.

Walmart 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation

Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.

Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.

Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of Walmart is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation

Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.

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Walmart (NYSE:WMT) Business Description

Industry

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Comparable Companies

Traded in Other Exchanges

WMT:Peru WMT:Mexico WMTd:UK 0R1W:UK WMTD:Germany WMT:Germany WMT:Germany WMT:Germany WMT:Germany WMT:Chile WMT:Canada WALM34:Brazil WMT:Austria WMT:Argentina

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 4,700 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.

Executives

John D Rainey	officer: Executive Vice President	C/O PAYPAL HOLDINGS, INC., 2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Randall L Stephenson	director	208 S. AKARD ST., DALLAS TX 75202
Donna Morris	officer: Executive Vice President	345 PARK AVENUE, SAN JOSE CA 95110
Kathryn J. Mclay	officer: Executive Vice President	702 S.W. 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
Suresh Kumar	officer: Chief Technology Officer	860 W. CALIFORNIA AVE., SUNNYVALE CA 94086
Cesar Conde	director	ONE OWENS CORNING PARKWAY, TOLEDO OH 43659
Stephen Easterbrook	director	MCDONALD'S CORPORATION, 110 NORTH CARPENTER STREET, CHICAGO IL 60607
Rachel L Brand	officer: Executive Vice President	702 S.W. 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
Sarah Friar	director	C/O NEXTDOOR HOLDINGS, INC., 420 TAYLOR STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102
Judith J Mckenna	officer: Executive Vice President	702 S.W. 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
Carla A Harris	director	702 SW 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
John R. Furner	officer: Executive Vice President	702 SW 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
David Chojnowski	officer: Senior Vice President	5505 BLUE LAGOON DRIVE, MIAMI FL 33126
Marc E. Lore	officer: Executive Vice President	443 GREENWICH STREET, PHA, NEW YORK NY 10013
Steuart L Walton	director	702 SW 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716