WMT

Walmart
Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail · Consumer Staples · as of 2026-08-19
Last close
$114.30
-0.8% on the session
1-year return
+14.2%
-9.4% over six months
Volatility
24.4%
annualized, trailing year
Max drawdown
-19.2%
worst peak to trough, 1y
What the numbers say

Walmart is a consumer staples merchandise retail name in the consumer staples sector. Over the past year it returned +14.2%, against -14.8% over three months and +3.5% over one. It sits 3.3% below its 200-day average, close enough that the trend is genuinely undecided. Annualized volatility of 24.4% is moderate by single-stock standards.

Its worst peak-to-trough decline over the year was -19.2%, and it has traded a median $2.6B a day — the figure that decides whether a position can actually be entered and exited at posted prices. Its daily moves correlate -0.06 with the S&P 500 proxy, so it has been moving substantially on its own.

Where it ranks
Within Consumer Staples#23 of 34
Stronger than 33% of its sector on the momentum profile
Across the whole index#406 of 500

How WMT scores on all four profiles

Its standing on steadiness, defensiveness and rebound — plus the factor-by-factor breakdown behind each score, and its closest and least-correlated peers among 4 others in Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail.

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Full metrics
1 day-0.8%
1 week-1.5%
1 month+3.5%
3 months-14.8%
6 months-9.4%
1 year+14.2%
12-1 momentum+10.3%
Volatility (1y, annualized)24.4%
Max drawdown (1y)-19.2%
Distance vs 200-day average-3.3%
Return per unit of risk0.58
Median daily dollar volume$2.6B
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