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Shares of retail giant Walmart (WMT 1.01%) were up a whopping 72% in 2024. To put the magnitude of this move in perspective, this was the best year for Walmart stock since 1998 -- you read that right.
Walmart announced that certain managers are getting a pay bump that can push their total compensation to more than $600,000 with all stock grants and bonuses calculated in.
WMT's consistent performance, superior market share gains and focus on efficiency make it an attractive option for investors.
Recently, Zacks.com users have been paying close attention to Walmart (WMT). This makes it worthwhile to examine what the stock has in store.
Walmart (WMT 0.62%) surged 71.9% in 2024, making it the second-best-performing component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average behind Nvidia . Investors may be wondering if Walmart can carry the momentum forward in 2025.
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Walmart Inc shares ticked up on Tuesday after the retail giant named Venessa Yates as the new head of its Canadian division. She would succeed Gonzalo Gebara as chief executive and president in the “coming weeks,” a statement said on Tuesday.
Walmart's decision to dial back its diversity, equity and inclusion "DEI" programs was widely celebrated by conservatives, but some shareholders and Democratic officials are pushing back.
With Wall Street seemingly focused only on artificial intelligence and GLP-1 weight-loss drug stocks lately, it might surprise some of these investors to learn that Walmart (WMT 0.70%) was actually a solid growth stock in 2024. A look at its total return performance would show that it blew past the S&P 500 as well as many other popular growth stocks.