Walmart (WMT) Stock Falls 3.1% Today

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WMT Walmart
Regular session
$103.23
-3.07% open $106.50
$105$104$103

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.

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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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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

Walmart is sending shareholders about $1.97 billion, or 24.75 cents a share, with the money arriving September 8. Amgen is close behind at roughly $1.36 billion, and its $2.52 a share is the biggest per-share payment on today's list.

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the retail war · 5y
$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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Biggest movers · At the close
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%

A near 10% single-day drop in a mega-cap retailer like Walmart, closing at $103.10, is the kind of move that rarely shows up on a leaderboard next to small caps. Marathon Digital ran the other way, up 13.37%, with Cipher Mining also in the green.

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Q2 2027
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.

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