Company data sheet · Walmart
Walmart: a steady bench.
- Industry
- Variety Stores
- Headquarters
- United States
- Ticker
- WMT (Nasdaq)
- Sources
- SEC filings (1994–2026), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- A steady bench. Walmart filed 17 leadership changes since 2016, fewer than 76% of large retailers (the median is 25). The day after each, its shares moved a median 0.2 points against its sector. The news was rarely news.
- Eight decisions on record. Stratrix has verified eight of Walmart's big decisions, each with what happened next. The best: "Walmart's Global Pattern: Ride a Local Partner and Win, Buy Mismatched Stores and Lose", 103 points ahead of the S&P 500 over the next three years.
- Profitable every year. Walmart made money in each of its last eleven fiscal years, from $6.7 billion (fiscal 2019) to $21.9 billion (fiscal 2026).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $482 billion | $14.7 billion | |
| 2017 | $486 billion | $13.6 billion | |
| 2018 | $500 billion | $9.9 billion | |
| 2019 | $514 billion | $6.7 billion | |
| 2020 | $524 billion | $14.9 billion | |
| 2021 | $559 billion | $13.5 billion | |
| 2022 | $573 billion | $13.7 billion | |
| 2023 | $611 billion | $11.7 billion | |
| 2024 | $648 billion | $15.5 billion | |
| 2025 | $681 billion | $19.4 billion | |
| 2026 | $713 billion | $21.9 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
Stratrix Decision Cases
- 2024Where Does Walmart's Profit Growth Come From? A Business at 0.65% of Revenue Drove Over Half
- 2022Walmart Built Its Marketplace in 2009. It Spent a Decade Pretending It Hadn't.
- 2018Walmart Spent $16B to Enter India. Only $2B Ever Got There.
- 2016Why Walmart, a $500B Store Business, Let E-Commerce Lose Money for 25 Years
- 2013Two-thirds of Walmart's $250 billion 'American-made' pledge was groceries, not manufacturing
- 2006Walmart Didn't Fail in Germany Because Germans Hate Smiling Greeters
- 1997Walmart's Global Pattern: Ride a Local Partner and Win, Buy Mismatched Stores and Lose
- 1992Walmart Only Cracked One Hard Market. It Did So by Refusing to Be Walmart.
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- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 19 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (18 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 71 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
- Methods and sources, so each number can be checked and cited.
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