Walmart (WMT.US) rallies over 6% today, following release of fiscal-Q1 2025 earnings report (calendar February - April 2024). US retailer reported results that were much better than expected, as well as decided to boost a full-year outlook.
Walmart reported a 6.1% YoY jump in total revenue, with net sales increasing 5.9% YoY and almost reaching $160 billion. Growth in cost of revenue was slower than revenue growth, allowing for an improvement in gross margin. Company also managed to improve operating margin compared to a year ago, while EBITDA margin remained unchanged. An over-200% spike in net income can be attributed to a $794 million in 'other interest gains'. Walmart reported almost $3 billion in 'other interest losses' a year ago.
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Create account Try a demo Download mobile app Download mobile appHowever, while fiscal-Q1 results were better than expected, the move higher today is driven primarily by forecasts, especially full-year forecast. Walmart boosted its full-year 2025 net sales growth forecast and now expects it to be near the upper-end or slightly above previous guidance of 3-4% guidance. It is rather unusual for the company to adjusted its full-year outlook as soon as in fiscal-Q1 and analysts hint that such a move reflect company's confidence.
Walmart (WMT.US) rallies over 6% today and exceed $500 billion in market capitalization for the first time in history.
Fiscal-Q1 2025 earnings
- Revenue: $161.51 billion vs $159.58 billion expected (+6.1% YoY)
- Net sales: $159.94 billion vs $158.13 billion expected (+5.9% YoY)
- Membership & Other Income: $1.57 billion vs $1.37 billion expected (+21% YoY)
- Cost of revenue: $121.43 billion vs $120.56 billion expected (+5.3% YoY)
- Gross profit: $40.08 billion vs $38.74 billion expected (+8.3% YoY)
- Gross margin: 24.8% vs 23.8% expected (23.7% a year ago)
- Operating income: $6.84 billion vs $6.56 billion expected (+9.6% YoY)
- Operating margin: 4.2% vs 4.1% expected (4.1% a year ago)
- EBITDA: $9.97 billion vs $9.56 billion expected (+9.7% YoY)
- EBITDA margin: 6.2% vs 5.7% expected (6.2% a year ago)
- Net income: $5.10 billion vs $4.21 billion expected (+205.8% YoY)
- Net margin: 3.2% vs 2.7% expected (1.1% a year ago)
- Diluted EPS: $0.63 vs $0.52 expected ($0.21 a year ago)
- US same store sales excluding fuel: 3.9% vs 3.4% expected
- Walmart US Stores: 3.8% vs 3.5% expected
- Traffic: 3.8% vs 3.2% expected
- Ticket: 0.0% vs 1.3% expected
- E-Commerce Contribution: 2.8% vs 1.5% expected
- Sam's Club: 4.4% vs 3.3% expected
- Traffic: 5.4% vs 0.8% expected
- Ticket: -1.0% vs 2.3% expected
- E-Commerce Contribution: 1.8% vs 1.6% expected
- Walmart US Stores: 3.8% vs 3.5% expected
Fiscal-Q2 2025 forecast
- Net sales growth: 3.5-4.5% YoY
- Operating income growth: 3.0-4.5% YoY
- Adjusted EPS: $0.62-0.65
Full-year fiscal-2025 forecast
- Net sales growth: at high-end or slightly above previous 3-4% guidance
- Adjusted EPS: at high-end or slightly above previous $2.23-2.37 guidance
- Capital expenditures: still expected at 3.0-3.5% of net sales
Walmart (WMT.US) gains around 6% today and trades at fresh all-time highs. Company's market capitalization exceeded $500 billion for the first time in history. Source: xStation5
Financial dashboard for Walmart. Source: Bloomberg Finance LP, XTB
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