Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.
3-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past three years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. Walmart's current 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 1.10%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Walmart's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
WMT'
s 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.5 Med: 1.5 Max: 4.4
Current: 1.1
During the past 13 years, Walmart's highest 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 4.40%. The lowest was -0.50%. And the median was 1.50%.
WMT's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked better than 80.59% of 170
companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: -0.2
vs WMT: 1.10
Competitive Comparison of Walmart's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio
For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year Share Buyback 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 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry
For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Walmart's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Walmart's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio falls into.
This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with expontential compound based on the latest four years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).
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Walmart (NYSE:WMT) 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation
A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.
Be Aware
Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.
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Walmart serves as 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.
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