Walmart stock plummets 6% amid tariff fears

Recent years were marked by the unusually frequent phenomenon of a company underperforming expectations only to see its stock soar – with Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) being the most notable example – or beating forecasts and achieving strong results only for its shares to plummet.The latest firm to suffer from such a stock market beating was the retail blue-chip Walmart (NYSE: WMT). Specifically, the chain announced it achieved a revenue of $180.55 billion – above the expected$180.01 billion – and earnings per sha ...