Hot Stock to Watch: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

(WMT)
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March 30,
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) 2017

Bank of America Maintains Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT)s stock to Buy with the price target of $88. This rating was
issued on 3/14/17. The stock recently closed its previous session at $70.74 by showing a percentage change of
0.6% from its previous day closing price of $70.32.

Price Target is basically a projection of future price of a companys stock by the expert analysis of investment
analysts or investment firms. There may be various price targets for a stock. These analysts and investment firms
use various valuation methods to decide a price target for a stock.

Several investment firms issued their expert ratings on Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) in which Bank of America
Upgrades Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) to Buy by settling a price target of $88 on 2/22/17. Susquehanna Initiates
Coverage On the stock to Positive on 2/10/17 by stationing a price target of $80. Bernstein Initiates Coverage On
the companys stock to Market Perform on 2/07/17 by setting a price target of $75. Wells Fargo Initiates Coverage
On Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) to Market Perform with no specific Price Target.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) currently has a consensus Price Target of $74.13. While some analysts have a High
Price target for the stock of $90 and a Low Price Target of $58.

Several sell side analysts reviewed their recommendations on Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) where 5 analyst have
rated the stock as Strong Buy, 6 analysts said its a Buy, 20 rated the stock as Hold, 2 analysts reported
Underperform and 2 analysts gave their recommendations as Sell. (Current Month Yahoo Finance Ratings)

Zacks Investment Research also rated the stock with a value of 2.48. This scale runs from 1 to 5 where 1 represents
Strong Buy and 5 represents Sell.

In the last Quarter, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) reported its Actual EPS of $1.3/share. The analysts offering
Earnings Estimates for the company were believing that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) could bring EPS of
$1.29/share. The difference between Actual EPS and Estimated EPS was 0.01 Percent. Thus the company showed
an Earnings Surprise of 0.8 Percent.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) has a market capitalization of 217.4 Billion. The stock traded with the volume of 6.99
Million shares in the last trading session. The stock touched its high share price of $75.19 on Aug 18, 2016 and the
stock also touched its Lowest price in the last 52-weeks of trading on May 18, 2016 as $62.72. The company has a
1 Year high price target of $74.13. The stock is currently trading with a distance of 20-Day Simple Moving Average
(SMA20) of 1.1%. The Moving Average SMA50 is 3.04% while SMA200 is 1.35%.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) is currently showing its ROA (Return on Assets) of 6.8%. The Return on Investment
(ROI) is at 13.4% while its Return on Equity (ROE) value stands at 17.8%. The stock currently shows its YTD (Year
to Date) performance of 3.1 percent while its Weekly performance value is 0.7%. The Monthly and Yearly
performances are 0.47 percent and 5.8 percent respectively. The Relative Volume value measured for Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. (WMT) is 0.76. The Average Volume (3 months) is 9.23 Million.

The stock currently has its Annual Dividend of $2.04 and an annual Dividend Yield of 2.88 Percent. WMT has P/E
(Price to Earnings ttm) value of 16.13, Forward P/E of 15.58, P/C (Price to cash per share) of 31.77 and Price to
Free Cash Flow (P/FCF) value of 14.85. The stock is showing its Operating Margin of 4.7 percent.

Company Profile:

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the worlds largest retailer. They are engaged in the operation of mass merchandising
stores, which serve their customers primarily through the operation of three segments, which are the Wal-Mart
Stores segment, the SAMS Club segment and the International segment.

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