WMT

Walmart
Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail · Consumer Staples · as of 2026-10-05
Last close
$105.07
+0.8% on the session
1-year return
+4.2%
-16.8% over six months
Volatility
26.3%
annualized, trailing year
Max drawdown
-23.3%
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 +4.2%, against -5.6% over three months and -3.1% over one. It trades 10.8% below its 200-day average, so recent moves have not repaired the longer downtrend. Annualized volatility of 26.3% is moderate by single-stock standards.

Its worst peak-to-trough decline over the year was -23.3%, and it has traded a median $2.4B a day, the figure that decides whether a position can actually be entered and exited at posted prices. Its daily moves correlate -0.02 with the S&P 500 proxy, so it has been moving substantially on its own.

Where it ranks
Within Consumer Staples#20 of 34
Stronger than 42% of its sector on the momentum profile
Across the whole index#335 of 496

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-3.4%
1 month-3.1%
3 months-5.6%
6 months-16.8%
1 year+4.2%
12-1 momentum+7.5%
Volatility (1y, annualized)26.3%
Max drawdown (1y)-23.3%
Distance vs 200-day average-10.8%
Return per unit of risk0.16
Median daily dollar volume$2.4B
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