Walmart Share Price Today

(NASDAQ: WMT)

Walmart's share price today stands at $98.16, Open. $99.00 ; Previous Close. $98.65 ; High. $98.73 ; Low. $97.72 ; 52 Week High. $99.00 ; 52 Week Low: $55.85

The stock opens at $99.00, after a previous close of $98.65. The stock reached a daily high of $98.73 and a low of $97.72, with a 52-week high of $99.00 and a 52-week low of $55.85.

You can buy Walmart shares starting ₹85.83 or $1 as on January 6, 2025, on the INDmoney app. Indian investors can buy Walmart shares in fractions or a part of the whole stock value instead of the entire stock. In simple terms, you can even buy 0.1 or any fraction of Walmart stock units. 

Let us understand this better with an example. If you have $10 or ₹858.3 to invest, and the cost of Walmart stock is $90.69 or ₹7,783.92, you can still invest your $10 or ₹858.3 and get 10/90.69 that is 0.110 units of the Walmart stock in your account.

Another way to understand this is, if 1 Walmart stock costs $90.69 or ₹7,783.92, you can buy Walmart stock worth $250 or ₹21,457.5. This will give you 250/90.69 units, which means you will get 2.756 Walmart shares.

An investor investing in US stocks from India not only benefits from stock or capital returns but also gets the benefit of dollar appreciation versus rupees.

If an Indian resident would have invested in Walmart from India, 5 years ago then the total returns (including dollar appreciation) from Walmart stock would be 176%. The annualised return would be 23%. 

To understand this in simple terms, capital appreciation in the last 5 years from Walmart stocks would be 131.32%.

On top of this, the investors will enjoy the gains from appreciation in dollar value versus rupees which would be 19.44%. The calculation is for the last 5 years.

Hence, investing in US stocks from the US will only give an investor capital gains, but an Indian investor will enjoy additional gains from dollar appreciation.

Walmart stock has given 176% returns in the last 5 years, whereas Amazon stock has given 184%. $100 invested in Walmart stock 5 years ago would have become $276 and $100 invested in Amazon stock would have become $284.

5 years returns of Walmart → 176% (Capital Appreciation 131.32% & Dollar Appreciation 19.44%)

5 years returns of Amazon → 184% (Capital Appreciation 137.49% & Dollar Appreciation 19.26%)

$100 invested in Walmart stock vs Amazon stock 5 years ago:

Walmart has paid a total of $3.78 in dividends per share in the last 5 years which translates into ₹302.4. So if you had 10 Walmart shares you would have received ₹3,024 in dividends in India from your Walmart stocks.

Walmart declares dividends every quarter. The latest dividend amount Walmart paid each shareholder was $0.2075 or ₹17.75* per share in the last quarter. For investors holding shares in fractions the same amount was paid in proportion to the units of shares they hold. For example, if an investor has less than 1 unit 〜 0.05 unit, they will still receive $0.0104 or ₹0.89 in dividends.

(*As of December 31, 2024, USDINR Exchange Rate)

Walmart is a popular stock amongst top global institutional investors. Top 3 institutional investors include: Vanguard Group ($38 billion), Blackrock ($30.43 billion), State Street Corp ($16.72 billion) and Capital World Investors ($7.9 billion). Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Norges Bank and FMR LLC also own stakes worth up to $7.1 billion.