Walmart (FRA:WMT) Buyback Yield % : 0.56 (As of Apr. 27, 2024)

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What is Walmart Buyback Yield %?

Buyback yield is the net repurchase of shares outstanding over the market capital of the company. It is a measure of shareholder return.

Walmart's current buyback yield was 0.56%.

Walmart Buyback Yield % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Walmart's Buyback Yield % can be seen below:

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Walmart Buyback Yield % Chart

Walmart Annual Data

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Jan16

Jan17

Jan18

Jan19

Jan20

Jan21

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Jan24

Buyback Yield %

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1.74

0.66

2.52

2.61

0.62

Walmart Quarterly Data
	Apr19	Jul19	Oct19	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24
Buyback Yield %	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															1.27	0.68	0.45	0.10	1.34

Competitive Comparison of Walmart's Buyback Yield %

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart's Buyback Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Buyback Yield % 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 Buyback Yield % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

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

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Walmart Buyback Yield % Calculation

Buyback yield is a measure of shareholder return.

Walmart's Buyback Yield for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Buyback Yield	=	Net Issuance of Stock			/	Market Cap
	=	- (Repurchase of Stock	+	Issuance of Stock)	/	Market Cap
	=	- (-2551.122	+	0)	/	411613.3618
	=	0.62%

Walmart's annualized Buyback Yield for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Buyback Yield	=	Net Issuance of Stock		(Annualized)			/	Market Cap
	=	- (Repurchase of Stock	+	Issuance of Stock)	*	Annualized Factor	/	Market Cap
	=	- (-1374.246	+	0)	*	4	/	411613.3618
	=	1.34%

In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the Repurchase of Stock and Issuance of Stock data used here is four times the quarterly (Jan. 2024) data.

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702 S.W. 8th Street, Bentonville, AR, USA, 72716

Website

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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 each week.