Walmart Inc (WMT-N)

It would be terrific if Walmart operated as a charity by subsidizing its customers. Problem is retailers have incredibly low profit margins to begin with. Also, they couldn't plan ahead, but nobody knew these tariffs were coming. When they did know, they did their best shifting to sourcing products  from countries that had the lowest tariffs. But you can't change your entire supply chain overnight. Given their huge scale, WMT negotiate the best deal with their suppliers, and have tried not to raise prices that much for customers. They will certainly lose money on some products. Walmart should be the last company on Earth to be singled out for profiteering. 

It would be terrific if Walmart operated as a charity by subsidizing its customers. Problem is retailers have incredibly low profit margins to begin with. Also, they couldn't plan ahead, but nobody knew these tariffs were coming. When they did know, they did their best shifting to sourcing products  from countries that had the lowest tariffs. But you can't change your entire supply chain overnight. Given their huge scale, WMT negotiate the best deal with their suppliers, and have tried not to raise prices that much for customers. They will certainly lose money on some products. Walmart should be the last company on Earth to be singled out for profiteering. 

Tariffs aren't in place at this point. Tariff talks are coming up this weekend, and things can change on a dime. A year from now, he doesn't see tariffs in place at the levels first announced. Worries on that front are premature.

Technically, the stock is great -- higher highs, higher lows. Valuation's up there at 38x forward PE, for 7-7.5% earnings growth. Expensive at over 5x PEG.

They will survive this tariff war, because their sourcing of products is so great.

Probably don't want to buy it today. Concerned with valuation of 34x forward PE for 7% growth. Makes for a high PEG ratio at 5. Trading at 200-day MA, so could be some support there for a trade. Low beta, will do well in an economic downturn as grocery is such a big part of its business. E-commerce is improving. Intense competition.

By and large, commercial real estate landlords do consider this name to be in the grocery space. It's doing a better and better job of that. But not a pure-play grocery. He thinks of defensive, grocery-anchored shopping centres as neighbourhood, urban, smaller centres -- where you can get a haircut and do other errands that can't be done online.

They just reported a beat though slower profit growth, so shares were punished. He does NOT see a crash in sales, and the numbers were in fact good.

It reported last week. This and Costco are benefiting from the economy of scale. Market share is already strong and will gain further.

Great winner. Higher highs, higher lows. Outpacing S&P since late 2021. Lofty valuation of 38x forward PE, for 10% growth. PEG ratio close to 4x. Grocery component insulates it somewhat from online competition.

Costco and Walmart offer terrific private label products that appeal to consumer starved for value after products were hiked during Covid. True, private label brands aren't growing much, but they keep all prices--including consumer brands--down. The brands are one reason why  Costco and Walmart keep hitting new highs.

Valuation always high in mid-high 20s PE. Profitability is solid, but margins are thin. Half of business is from grocery, with historically narrow margins of 2-3%. Management's good. Look elsewhere.

She missed this one. They did a very good job pivoting to online sales, and they've added advertising to their platform. They've done well, and the softening economy benefits companies like Walmart. Good long-term. Wait for a pullback. They compete well against Amazon and Target.

They are about to report. See how accretive back-to-school sales were. Is looking for revenues to rise 3-5%. Last August, they already raised their outlook.