Walmart Stock Gets Hit Again as Goldman Slashes Target to $130

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Dollar Tree (DLTR) is likely to raise its full-year outlook, with management expected to strike an u

Walmart's (WMT) mixed second-quarter performance has raised questions around the trajectory of its c

Walmart beat estimates, raised guidance, and watched its stock crater 9% anyway. The reason buried in the CFO's comments explains why the quarter's biggest win may actually set up a painful Q3.

The market rally flashed some bearish signals. Moderna skyrocketed on a cancer vaccine while gold and bitcoin jumped. Walmart dived.

Are pigs flying? Walmart has finally caved on its refusal to support Apple Pay and Google Pay.

BJ's Wholesale Club's (BJ) fiscal second-quarter results came in ahead of Wall Street's estimates, p

The benchmark US stock measures were tracking in the green before the open Friday following a sharp

Goldman cuts to $130 while keeping Buy, calling the raised second-half outlook encouraging

Markets are clawing back from a brutal Thursday selloff, but the real action is in the analyst calls, where BMO Capital just pulled the trigger on three major chip stocks at once and DZ Bank opened SpaceX coverage with a Sell.

Walmart’s finance chief had a message Thursday for analysts pressing the company on its decision to cut prices: Give it time. Walmart said it rolled back prices on more than 11,000 items, including ground beef, citing the ongoing strain on consumers of inflation and high gas prices. The move comes after the company received tariff refunds worth about $2.9 billion, which it’s using to fund the price cuts.

Walmart said its U.S. e-commerce sales rose 24% in the second quarter, with more than 40% sales growth in deliveries fulfilled at its stores. CEO John Furner said Walmart has now expanded deliveries of 30 minutes or less into 38 U.S. markets. The number of units delivered in less than half an hour has doubled in the current quarter from a year ago, and 70% of all e-commerce orders are getting delivered on the same day or better, CFO John David Rainey said.

STORY: From U.S. debt soaring higher to Walmart's rare sales miss...this is the Week in Numbers. :: The Week in Numbers :: $40 trillion $40 trillion is how high total U.S. debt hit for the first time. It drew warnings from analysts a fiscal crisis is developing. That as growing costs for social safety-net programs and interest payments far exceed revenues held back by tax cuts. U.S. debt has more than doubled in less than a decade, from just under $20 trillion when President Donald Trump was sworn in for the first time in January 2017. :: 10% As much as 10% is how far Walmart shares sank after its latest results. The retail giant announced quarterly sales growth was well below analyst expectations. Reuters Correspondent Nicholas Brown. “Walmart's sales grew only 2.6% which is the the slowest pace of growth in about six years for them. It's the first time that they've met failed to meet analyst estimates for their sales in about five years. So, it's exceedingly rare for Walmart to miss.” The company said shoppers were likely being squeezed by high gasoline prices, raising concerns pressure on U.S. consumers is growing. :: 160% Around 160% is how high Moderna shares soared this week. Investors bought in after the drugmaker and Merck announced a successful cancer treatment. They said a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine lowered the risk of recurrence and spread of melanoma in a late-stage trial. Moderna said thousands of patients could benefit as soon as next year if regulators approve the vaccine. :: $50 billion And $50 billion is how much Chinese robotics firm Unitree was valued on its Shanghai stock debut. The firm is one of the world's biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots. Unitree has drawn global attention for its robots that run, dance and perform martial arts and become a source of national pride in China. It isn't the first Chinese humanoid robot maker to go public, but its debut is expected to kick off a range of domestic rivals preparing to come to market.

Index funds went from a punchline to the investing world’s 800-pound gorilla. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Vanguard First Index Investment Trust, now Vanguard 500, the original way for individuals to passively own the S&P 500 index. Founder Jack Bogle raised just $11 million, about a 10th what he had hoped, and it was dubbed “Bogle’s Folly.”

Spending on K-12 and back-to-college combined is expected to hit a record of nearly $147 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. “Customers are responding to just absolutely fantastic investments in price,” Walmart’s U.S. CEO David Guggina said yesterday during the company’s earnings call that highlighted the cost pressures facing consumers. “We have a list of 14 key items that are priced less than what we saw in 2019,” he also said of the store’s school supplies, citing examples from the store’s Pen+Gear brand, which has crayons for 25 cents and No. 2 pencils for 92 cents.

Global e-commerce sales were up 23%, driven by store-fulfilled pickup and delivery and marketplace activity.

Mixed results from Walmart and other retailers offered more gloom on the health of the American consumer.

Wall Street closed lower on Thursday as tensions between the United States and Iran rose, heightening geopolitical concerns. Investors assessed economic data.

The Morning Bull - US Market Morning Update Friday, Aug, 21 2026 US stock futures are slightly softer this morning, with E-mini S&P 500 contracts edging down about 0.1%, as investors digest a fresh mix of interest rate and bond market signals. The US Treasury plans to double its buybacks of long term bonds, which has pulled 30 year yields lower and is an attempt to ease the pressure from higher borrowing costs. At the same time, Federal Reserve minutes show some officials were ready to raise...

U.S. stocks fell yesterday, with the Dow closing down nearly 700 points, more than 1%. Walmart slumped 9% percent after the retailer reported its smallest sales gain in more than six years as some Americans continue to spend cautiously.

Walmart posted a strong Q2 earnings beat and raised its outlook, but slowing U.S. sales, weaker transactions, and temporary tariff benefits pressured shares and divided investors.

After years of experiments and setbacks, some of America’s biggest delivery companies are racing to make drones mainstream.

The Nasdaq closed below its Aug. 4 follow-through day low, a highly bearish signal for the market rally. Walmart, SpaceX, CrowdStrike were big losers.

Walmart and Target showed different trends, with Walmart facing weaker U.S. sales and valuation concerns, while Target’s stronger customer traffic and improving business boosted investor confidence.

The benchmark indexes are on track to end the week lower, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq likely to snap three weeks of gains.

Sales at the discount giant's stores are decelerating.

The Nasdaq Composite fell 1%. The bond market was a major reason stocks took a tumble. Treasury yields rose on Thursday, with the 30-year Treasury bond reaching 5.25% and the 10-year reaching 4.7% (bond prices and yields move inverse to each other).

U.S. consumers may finally be at their breaking point when it comes to inflation.

Walmart beat on earnings and raised guidance, then fell 10%. Here's what the market didn't like in this bellwether report.

Walmart Inc. (NASDAQ:WMT) shares fell more than 9% Thursday after its finance chief warned that gasoline above $4 is changing how consumers spend, adding to concerns over the retailer’s weakest U.S. sales growth in more than six years. "When fuel...

One key metric is suddenly testing Walmart's premium expectations

Walmart set a somber tone for the first week of retailer earnings, but that wasn’t the whole story. The big news was Walmart’s sales woes as the Bentonville, Ark.-based giant reported a same-store sales decline—the first since 2020. Target meanwhile, showed some signs of life, reflecting its turnaround efforts.

Walmart stock is having its worst day in over four years on Thursday as lower drug prices resulting from federal regulations passed during the Biden administration put a damper on same-store sales. While the changes were expected, the impact on Walmart’s overall sales growth was greater than anticipated. Walmart is currently the second-biggest loser in the for the day.

Walmart reported mixed results Thursday, topping analyst estimates but experiencing slower US sales growth as consumers contended with lofty gasoline prices due to the US-Iran war.Adding to the hit from the new pharma price rules, Walmart also experienced slower growth in the second quarter in sales of GLP-1 diabetes and weight loss products.

Walmart (WMT) CFO John David Rainey joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss how the retail giant is retaining its core customers while winning over more higher-income shoppers and what's driving that shift in consumer behavior.

Walmart (NASDAQ:WMT) raised its fiscal 2027 sales, operating income and earnings outlook after reporting second-quarter results that management said reflected continued market-share gains, eCommerce momentum and growth in higher-margin businesses including advertising, Marketplace and membership. E

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Shares of Walmart (WMT) tumbled ahead of the market open after the retail giant's quarterly sales fell short of expectations, a rare miss that's likely to stoke concern about the leading big-box retailer decelerating alongside a slow-growing US economy. - Shares of Advanced Auto Parts (AAP) sunk in premarket trading after the parts provider reported second-quarter sales that fell short of analyst estimates. Though the company boosted its adjusted earnings per share forecast for the full year, it maintained its sales guidance, which is also below estimates at the midpoint. - Shares of Coty (COTY) fell after the beauty conglomerate reported fourth-quarter results. While the company's net revenue for the quarter beat the average analyst estimate, Coty didn't provide a full-year forecast and said it expects to provide a broader outlook following a strategic review.

Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT, XETRA:WMT) shares tumbled on Thursday after the retailer posted its slowest US comparable-sales growth in more than six years and issued a third-quarter profit forecast that fell short of Wall Street estimates, raising concerns about the health of the US consumer. US...

Higher gas prices cut into Americans’ overall spending, leading to the slowest sales growth at Walmart’s US stores since the earliest months of the pandemic.

Walmart's (WMT) fiscal second-quarter US comparable sales growth decelerated more than Wall Street e

US comparable sales grew 2.6% against 3.5% expected

Stocks got off to an unsteady start to trading as Treasury yields regained some of their losses from the day before.

The retailer's outlook fell short of expectations.

Bond yields reversed course Thursday after the Treasury's debt buyback plan failed to sustain a rally in fixed-income markets

Walmart's stock cratered Thursday morning while Target and Costco barely flinched, and the gap between those reactions reveals something important about where retail's real pressure points actually sit.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was down 0.5% and the actively tr

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Walmart CFO John David Rainey said the timing of Flipkart’s Big Billion Days sale will shift between the third and fourth quarters, creating a headwind of more than 100 basis points to third-quarter sales growth.