Stock price when the opinion was issued
Hard not to like. Great job on e-commerce, after having lagged. Now has a lovely hybrid model of in-store and online. Very price competitive. Well-positioned structurally for the long term. Massive importer of goods, so tariffs are a pressure. Valuation's not cheap, but it never is. Buy and forget about it.
Has been rangebound within $93-100, but is digesting after a big move up after April. The Chaykin Money Flow remains positive. The MACD line made a bullish crossover Lang suggests buying ahead of next month's report. Lang targets $105-110 and he agrees.
Iconic brand, as well as scale and efficiency. You could say it's quite expensive. On the other hand, what a moat. Could very well keep chugging along without having its multiple fall. Very profitable, lots of FCF to buy back shares. Nearest competitor is TGT, which is not doing well. Perhaps TGT's loss is WMT's gain.
Executes really well. Don't get too many surprises, everyone understands it. Massive upside. Chart shows how it broke out of the little "step" recently. Will benefit immensely in the retail space from the adaption of AI (especially as it relates to knowing their customers' habits).
Many retailers suffer, but overall some of them are actually doing well. If there was too much optimism priced in, or a lack of recognition of how much online was going to take from their business, that is when the stock really gets hammered. This has economy of scale with over 11,000 stores. Part of the challenge is that they operate with very thin margins, which doesn’t leave much of a buffer to cut prices when they start to sit on inventory. To combat online shopping, they are using price matching. Also, getting into the organic space in groceries. He wouldn’t be in a rush to buy this, because it is still unclear how the disruption in the retail space is going to take place.