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Several other large investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Moreno Evelyn V acquired a new stake in Wal-Mart Stores during the third quarter valued at approximately $783,000. Finally, Nelson Roberts Investment Advisors LLC raised its stake in Wal-Mart Stores by 27.2% in the third quarter. Murphy Cap Management holds 0.27% in Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT) or 24,792 shares. Finally, Adirondack Trust Co. increased its position in shares of Wal-Mart Stores by 0.4% in the third quarter. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Wal-Mart Stores Inc will post $4.32 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
FT reports, The 29 analysts offering 12 month price targets for Wal-Mart Stores Inc have a median target of 73.00, with a high estimate of 90.00 and a low estimate of 58.00. Looking at this figure it suggests that the shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The stock Jumped 11.76 percent over the past six months. Regardless, closing prices are a useful tool that investors use to quantify changes in stock prices over time. A total of 34.20 million shares exchanged hands as contrast to its average trading volume of 1.45 million shares. Wal-Mart Stores has a 12-month low of $62.72 and a 12-month high of $76.60. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $72.95 and a 200-day moving average price of $70.36. News & Ratings Via Email - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter. The retailer reported $1.30 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.29 by $0.01. Wal-Mart Stores Inc had 74 analyst reports since August 14, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. The company's revenue was up.8% on a year-over-year basis. WMT generated revenue of $122.79 Billion in the same quarter, one year ago. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 8th will be paid a $0.51 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 6th. Wal-Mart Stores's payout ratio is now 43.48%. WALTON S ROBSON also sold $320.41 million worth of Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT) shares. If you are viewing this piece of content on another site, it was illegally copied and republished in violation of USA and worldwide trademark and copyright laws.
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Analysts await Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT) to report earnings on May, 18 before the open. TheStreet downgraded the shares of WMT in report on Friday, September 18 to "Hold" rating.
02/17/2017 - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. had its "hold" rating reiterated by analysts at Deutsche Bank. After $1.30 actual earnings per share reported by Wal-Mart Stores Inc for the previous quarter, Wall Street now forecasts -26.15% negative EPS growth. Stifel Nicolaus raised their price objective on Wal-Mart Stores from $70.00 to $72.00 and gave the company a "hold" rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 22nd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eighteen have assigned a hold rating and thirteen have issued a buy rating to the stock. The stock increased 1.41% or $0.05 on May 4, reaching $3.6.
According to the Recommendation Trends of the stock polled by Zacks Investment Research for this month, the company has a consensus recommendation of 2.36 out of the scale from 1 to 5 where 1 stands for Strong Buy and 5 means Strong Sell. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 10,507,127 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $740,752,453.50. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Chiminski John R also sold $2.11M worth of Catalent Inc (NYSE:CTLT) shares. Fort Point Capital Partners LLC now owns 4,663 shares of the retailer's stock worth $336,000 after buying an additional 20 shares in the last quarter. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 15,585,041 shares of company stock valued at $1,110,035,611 over the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 51.55% of the company's stock. Bridges Invest Counsel has invested 0.29% in Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT). The Firm operates through three divisions: Walmart U.S., Walmart International and Sam's Club. Wal now has $230.56 billion valuation.
