Walmart is engaged in global operations of retail, wholesale and other units, as well as eCommerce, located throughout the U.S., Africa, Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India and Mexico. Co.'s segments are: Walmart U.S., which is a mass merchandiser of consumer products, operating under the Walmart and Walmart Neighborhood Market brands, as well as walmart.com and other eCommerce brands; Walmart International, which operates through its wholly-owned subsidiaries in Canada, Chile, China, and Africa, and its majority-owned subsidiaries in India, as well as Mexico and Central America; and Sam's Club, which is a membership-only warehouse club that also operates samsclub.com. We show 60 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WMT shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WMT market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WMT market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WMT's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of WMT versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WMT market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like WMT can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WMT by allowing them to research the WMT market cap history. |
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