This Customer Trend Helped Save Walmart's Quarter, but Does It Spell Trouble for the Year Ahead?
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is one of the largest and most powerful retailers in the world. It is performing quite well right now, with the company's fiscal fourth quarter 2025 same-store sales ticking up 4.6%.There's a wrinkle in this number, however, because it is being supported by customers who don't normally shop at Walmart. Here's why that's a problem.Walmart is a retailer, but that doesn't even begin to address the vast scale of the company, which has a $790 billion market cap. It is a dominant force in general retail, in groceries, in club stores, and in the online retail arena.Continue reading
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is one of the largest and most powerful retailers in the world. It is performing quite well right now, with the company's fiscal fourth quarter 2025 same-store sales ticking up 4.6%.
There's a wrinkle in this number, however, because it is being supported by customers who don't normally shop at Walmart. Here's why that's a problem.
Walmart is a retailer, but that doesn't even begin to address the vast scale of the company, which has a $790 billion market cap. It is a dominant force in general retail, in groceries, in club stores, and in the online retail arena.
