WMTWalmart
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (AA), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$8.9M, 90 days to Oct 9, 2026), selling is often routine.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -26% · now 17% below its 52-week high.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can WMT take a bad year?
Walmart carries $38.9B of net debt at 0.82× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2027 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.82×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.80× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 17.4×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 25%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2027
- $50.4B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $11.5B
- Net debt
- $38.9B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $47.4B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $32.3B
- Debt / equity
- 0.51×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.06×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −26%
- Below its 52-week high
- 17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Consumer Defensive
Ranks #58 of 130 by RyuScore