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Company Dossier · Consumer Staples

Walmart Inc.

WMTNasdaqDiscount RetailWILMINGTON, US-DE, USMega capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • S&P 100
  • Nasdaq-100
  • Dow 30
  • Russell 1000

What Walmart Inc. is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

Open the full company record in Palanor: guidance, KPIs, ownership, calls, prices →

The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to July 31, 2026: $728 billion, up 6.1% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to July 31, 2026: $13.5 billion, down 1.7% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to July 31, 2026: $29.4 billion, up 19% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to January 31, 2026: $8.09 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to January 31, 2026: $3.98 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (August 20, 2026): sentiment 0.70 on a −1 to +1 scale (confident, opportunity-framed), confidence 0.90 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 4 outlook figures raised, 0 lowered, 1 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed March 13, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $8.9 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 4,429 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (−39 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 1,491 (1,603 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
  • Headlines in the last 30 days: 29, of which 2 read positive and 3 negative.Palanor headline tone

Risk events (12 months): 60 — latest CPSC product recall, Oct 1, 2026 →

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What Walmart Inc. is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Steady · Confident

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Steady

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Confident

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

Walmart Inc.'s borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$57.2B

  • Due within a year $14.8B
  • Longer term $42.4B
  • Default point $36.0B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Jul 31, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

$7.3B

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

PricedAmountCouponMaturesSpreadYield
Oct 19, 2026$750M5.050%2029 (3y)+20bp5.052%
Oct 19, 2026$500M5.150%2031 (5y)+27bp5.196%
Oct 19, 2026$1B5.350%2033 (7y)+35bp5.372%
Oct 19, 2026C$500M5.250%2056 (30y)+98bp5.263%
Oct 19, 2026$750M5.550%2036 (10y)+45bp5.579%
Oct 19, 2026C$1.75B4.950%2038 (12y)+95bp4.951%
Oct 19, 2026C$2B4.450%2033 (7y)+67bp4.459%
Oct 19, 2026C$750M4.150%2030 (4y)+51bp4.151%
Apr 27, 2026$650M4.000%2029 (3y)+20bp4.027%
Apr 27, 2026$350MSOFR + 40bp2029 (3y)——
Apr 27, 2026$1B4.150%2031 (5y)+25bp4.198%
Apr 27, 2026$1.25B4.450%2033 (7y)+33bp4.462%

From the pricing term sheets Walmart Inc. filed with the SEC. Spread is to the benchmark Treasury (or Bund, Gilt) at pricing.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

Walmart Inc.: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$13.5BData to Jul 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Walmart Inc.: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Walmart Inc.: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$728.5BData to Jul 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Walmart Inc.: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$8.1BData to Jan 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Walmart Inc.: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Jan 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Walmart Inc.: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Jan 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Walmart Inc.: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Walmart Inc.: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

17.4Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Walmart Inc.: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

4.0Data 22 days ago
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
Business

Walmart Inc.: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.70Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Walmart Inc.: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.90Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Walmart Inc.: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.0Data to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Walmart Inc.: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

1,491Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Walmart Inc.: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$9MData 22 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Walmart Inc.: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

4,429Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

News

Business

Walmart Inc.: headline tone

Net share of positive headlines, trailing 28 days, −1 to +1

−0.04Data 5 days ago
ImagePalanor calculation from news headlines (tone words only)

In the news

Headlines that name Walmart Inc., with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
29 headlines
7% positive · 10% negative
90 days
42 headlines
5% positive · 10% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (EMPIRE CONSULTING GROUP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  2. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CAPITOL CONSULTING GROUP LLC (DC))third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  3. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  4. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE SIMMONS & RUSSELL GROUP, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  5. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ESTABLISHING PERSONALIZED CAROUSEL IDENTIFIERSUS 12769798
  6. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED TRAINING DATA GENERATION FOR ITEM ATTRIBUTESUS 12770172
  7. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING ADVERTISING RELATED DATA BASED ON METADATA AND DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTIONUS 12770165
  8. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING DATA ENTITIESUS 12769781
  9. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (FGS GLOBAL (US) LLC (FKA FGH HOLDINGS LLC))third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  10. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (FEROX STRATEGIES)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  11. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  12. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MVP STRATEGIES)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  13. Oct 13, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: CHECK-IN TO CHECKOUT SYSTEMS AND METHODSUS 12762534
  14. Oct 1, 2026Risk event
    Walmart Recalls Over 4.4 Million Expert Grill Brushes Due to Ingestion HazardCPSC
  15. Sep 10, 2026Risk event
    OSHA referral inspection: WALMART, INC.OSHA
  16. Sep 1, 2026Risk event
    OSHA complaint inspection: WALMART, INCOSHA
  17. Aug 27, 2026Risk event
    Walmart Reannounces Recall of Mainstays Nine-Drawer Fabric Dressers Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Tip-Over and Entrapment Hazards; Walmart Distributed Recalled Dressers Post-Recall; Sold to Consumers Through LiquidatorsCPSC
  18. Aug 24, 2026Risk event
    OSHA complaint inspection: WALMARTOSHA
  19. Aug 20, 2026Risk event
    OSHA complaint inspection: WALMART INC.OSHA
  20. Aug 20, 2026Risk event
    OSHA referral inspection: WALMARTOSHA
  21. Aug 12, 2026Risk event
    OSHA complaint inspection: WALMART, INC.OSHA
  22. Aug 6, 2026Risk event
    OSHA complaint inspection: WALMARTOSHA
  23. Aug 3, 2026Risk event
    EPA administrative case: WALMART, INC.EPA_ECHO
  24. Jun 5, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  25. Mar 13, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  26. Jan 30, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  27. Jan 16, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  28. Jan 16, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  29. Jan 8, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  30. Nov 20, 20258-K
    Delisting notice or listing transferItem 3.01
  31. Nov 14, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  32. Oct 22, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  33. Jun 6, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  34. Mar 14, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 0 removed
  35. Mar 15, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 0 removed

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Target Corp. TGT$108B$4.5BAug 1, 2026
Dollar General DG$43.6B$2.0BJul 31, 2026
Dollar Tree DLTR$20.1B$2.0BAug 1, 2026
Costco Wholesale COST———
Procter & Gamble PG$87.0B$15.2BJun 30, 2026
Sysco SYY$84.5B$1.9BJun 27, 2026
Performance Food Group PFGC$67.8B$1.0BJun 27, 2026
Tyson Foods TSN$55.7B$1.2BJun 27, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
104169
LEI
Y87794H0US1R65VBXU25
Wikidata
Q483551

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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