Walmart's 26-Year Dividend Streak Grows With a 5.3% Raise

As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on August 21, 2026.

WMT Walmart

Aug 21, 6:00pm ET

Dividend raised $0.25 ex-date 2026-08-21 · 0.94% yield · 26 yrs paying · +5.3% YoY

Walmart lifted its quarterly payout 5.3% from a year ago, extending a 26-year streak of raises. Buy after the August 21 ex-date and you wait a full quarter for the $0.2475.

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Walmart raised its quarterly dividend 5.3% to $0.2475 per share, extending a 26-year streak of annual increases.

Buy on or after the August 21, 2026 ex-dividend date and you wait a full quarter to collect.

The yield sits near 0.94%, modest next to the durability of the growth streak.

Each raise signals a board-level commitment to returning capital to shareholders.

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WMT Walmart

$2B $0.25 per share

2AMGNAmgen$2.52/sh$1.4B
3VTRSViatris$0.12/sh$138M
4SBLKStar Bulk Carriers$0.90/sh$101M
5CBCCentral Bancompany, Inc.$0.12/sh$28.7M

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the retail war · 5y Aug 20, 6:00pm ET

$10K invested in each — worth today:

WMT$21.8K2.2×

AMZN$16.3K1.6×

Over five years, $10,000 in Walmart is worth $21,842 today versus $16,257 in Amazon. Anyone who assumed e-commerce was the default winner gave up that gap.

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Gainers

MARAMarathon Digital$10.94+13.4%
TEMTempus AI$66.48+8.5%
AAOIApplied Optoelectronics$129.38+5.9%
FUBOfuboTV$10.79+4.4%
CIFRCipher Mining$16.58+4.3%

Losers

WMTWalmart$103.1-9.8%
IQiQIYI$1.04-8.0%
ACHRArcher Aviation$6.04-6.4%
UPSTUpstart$28.82-5.8%
IONQIonQ$41.39-4.5%

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WMT Walmart

Regular session

Aug 20, 12:40pm ET

$103.23

-3.07% open $106.50

Walmart is off 3.07% even after beating on its fiscal Q2 earnings, a sign the bar for the retail bellwether has moved higher. Rare air for a defensive name, so watch whether buyers step in before the close.

WMT Walmart Inc.

Q2 2027

Aug 20, 6:59am ET

EPS

$0.81

est $0.74 +9.3%

Revenue

$187.94B

est $186.82B +0.6%

Management is spending the tariff refund windfall on lower prices in the back half, so Q3 guidance of $0.62 to $0.64 matters more than the beat. Full-year adjusted EPS guidance moved up to $2.80 to $2.87.