Walmart (WMT) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Walmart's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
WMT closed at $103.70 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -8.7% from its 50-day average and -12.5% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established downtrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -14.5%, trailing SPY by 17.6%. It remains 23.3% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -8.7% from its 50-day average and -12.5% from its 200-day average. Over three months, WMT returned -14.5% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -8.7%
- vs 200-day
- -12.5%
- From 52W high
- -23.3%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
WMT appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 0 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 0 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was 0.54, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. No archived session has cleared the issuer-level top-30 cutoff.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| No issuer-level top-30 flags in the current archive. | ||
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.152 calls, 0.214 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Walmart position in their latest filing, worth $950M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gates Foundation Trust Michael Larson · WMT | $950M | 2.76% | 8.39M | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open WMT Financials →How WMT trades — the working manual
Walmart combines large-format retail, grocery, warehouse clubs, ecommerce, advertising and membership economics. For the stock, comparable sales need to be separated into traffic, ticket and merchandise mix because grocery can support revenue while pressuring margins relative to general merchandise.
What can move the tape
- 01Comparable sales, customer traffic and ticket across Walmart U.S. and Sam's Club.
- 02Grocery versus general-merchandise mix and the resulting gross-margin effect.
- 03Inventory discipline, shrink, labor and freight costs.
- 04Ecommerce, advertising and membership growth as higher-return complements to stores.
What can fool the read
- 01Consumer trade-down can support revenue while weakening the merchandise and margin mix.
- 02Wage, freight and shrink pressures can offset operating leverage.
- 03Inventory mistakes can require markdowns even when headline demand is stable.
- 04A defensive reputation can create valuation risk when growth or margins merely normalize.
Walmart triggered 1 issuer-level flag in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was WMT on 2026-06-03: 1.6× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.4% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported WMT events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-15 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
WMT stock questions
Is WMT stock in an uptrend?+
WMT is classified in the “established downtrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -8.7% from its 50-day average and -12.5% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in WMT mean?+
WMT has not appeared in either issuer-level top-30 list during the current archive. A future flag would identify an OTM chain outlier relative to the scanner universe. It would identify no buyer, seller, institution or spread leg.
Are the WMT 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are WMT's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated WMT Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no WMT earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.