If You Bought 1 Share of Walmart at Its IPO, Here's How Many Shares You Would Own Now

It's hard to fathom a world without Walmart (WMT -1.24%). The company opened its first discount store in the early 1960s and conducted its initial public offering (IPO) in October 1970.If you were lucky and astute enough to buy just one share during its early days as a public company, you'd have many more due to subsequent stock splits.Exactly how many shares would you own? Tracking the stock split history and doing some multiplication will provide the answer. Growing share countWalmart has declared 12 stoc ...