WMT Walmart
Consumer Staples · Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail · close $118.81 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-07-31
Walmart (WMT) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 45/100 (grade D), ranking #17 of 52 in Consumer Staples. Its strongest pillars are balance sheet (60) and growth (52); its weakest is cash flow (7). TTM revenue growth is 6.2% and operating margin 4.4%.
Data as of .
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · 50| Consensus score (1–5) (3.8%) | derived | 100 |
| 90-day net rating shift (3.8%) | derived | 21 |
Growth
weight 30.83% · 52| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 6.2% | 60 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 3.8% | 51 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.2%) | -1.4% | 40 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% · 45| Operating margin (9.9%) | 4.4% | 28 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (8.6%) | 0.3% | 65 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% · 60| Net debt / EBITDA (9.9%) | 0.61× | 75 |
| Current ratio (4.9%) | 0.77 | 16 |
| Interest coverage (3.7%) | 13.93× | 78 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% · 7| FCF margin (6.2%) | 2.1% | 10 |
| FCF yield (6.2%) | 1.6% | 4 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% · 40| P/E (inverted) (6.2%) | 43.05× | 18 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.2%) | 1.32× | 61 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 73.0 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 113.69 / 110.81 |
| 200-day SMA | 118.27 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 0.90× |
| 20-day return | 11.3% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: Revenues · Gross profit: Revenue − CostOfRevenue · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestExpenseDebt · D&A: DepreciationAmortizationAndAccretionNet · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) (split-adjusted) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted) (split-adjusted).
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FAQ
- What is WMT's House Rating?
- WMT scores 45 out of 100 (grade D) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #17 of 52 Consumer Staples stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about WMT?
- ThetaGrade's analyst-sentiment pillar for WMT scores 50/100 against its sector peers, which we read as mixed. This is our own derived score; we do not republish individual analyst ratings, counts or targets.
- When does WMT report earnings next?
- WMT's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-11-19 (window 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-26), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is WMT a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology