Amazon and Walmart are intensifying their tech-driven competition by launching AI-powered digital ... [+] shopping assistants to enhance customer experience and boost sales. Amazon's virtual assistant and Walmart's equivalent use advanced technology to simplify product searches, offer personalized recommendations, and bridge the gap between online and in-store shopping, marking a significant shift in retail.NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAmazon's chief engineer used to have a dog named Rufus who ran up and down t ...

The 2024 Q2 earnings season is slowly winding down, which has remained positive and uplifting. Earnings growth is on pace to be positive yet again, with the trend expected to continue in the upcoming Q3 cycle.This week, several notable companies – Walmart (WMT) and Alibaba (BABA) – both report quarterly results. Both companies have established themselves as serious players in the eCommerce space, though it’s worth noting that WMT is still relatively in the early phases of its digital efforts.Both reports wi ...

The upcoming report from Walmart (WMT) is expected to reveal quarterly earnings of $0.65 per share, indicating an increase of 6.6% compared to the year-ago period. Analysts forecast revenues of $168.43 billion, representing an increase of 4.2% year over year.Over the last 30 days, there has been no revision in the consensus EPS estimate for the quarter. This signifies the covering analysts' collective reconsideration of their initial forecasts over the course of this timeframe.Prior to a company's earnings ...

Walmart Inc. (WMT) is likely to register top and bottom-line growth when it reports second-quarter fiscal 2025 earnings on Aug 15. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues is pegged at $168.43 billion, which indicates a 4.2% increase from the year-ago period.The consensus mark for earnings has remained unchanged in the past 30 days at 65 cents per share, which implies 6.6% growth from the year-ago quarter’s figure. WMT has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 8.3%, on average.What the Zacks Model U ...

Alexander Farnsworth The one thing about Walmart (NYSE:WMT, NEOE:WMT:CA) if you’ve followed them over the years (and this blog has modeled the financials since 1995), is that the retail giant is always innovating, sometimes transparently and sometimes internally. In the late 1990s, it was RFID (radio frequency identification devices) chips, which were used to track inventory on Walmart trucks, and it was thought Walmart merchandisers could track every pallet of every item, moving around the country. Wal ...

There's more to these three companies than passive income alone.Investment objectives vary based on time horizon and risk tolerance. However, most well-diversified investors are probably looking for a balance of growth, income, and value stocks.When scanning the market for dividend stocks to buy, it's important not to fixate just on yield. Instead, invest in quality companies that have the potential to grow earnings and dividends. After all, a company that doesn't have growth prospects may drastically under ...

Walmart (WMT) shares held their own in the market’s recent turmoil, cementing its anchoring and defensive positioning. With the company on deck to report quarterly results on Thursday, August 15th, Walmart’s results will provide us with an important window into the health of the consumer economy. Worries about the economy and recession risks were a big driver of the market sell-off.This week also brings quarterly results from Home Depot (HD) on Tuesday, August 13th. But Home Depot is primarily a housing pla ...

Stock splits, once rare, are roaring back into focus for traders and investors alike. In January, Walmart (NYSE:WMT) became the latest company to announce a three-for-one stock split followed by Williams-Sonoma’s (NYSE:WSM) two-for-one split. This trend has continued, with plenty of other stock split opportunities worth paying attention to.Compared to other tech cycles, like the tech bubble in the 1990s, stock splits are rare. By the mid-2000s, stock splits dropped dramatically, and nearly ceased after the ...

Wall Street expects a year-over-year increase in earnings on higher revenues when Walmart (WMT) reports results for the quarter ended July 2024. While this widely-known consensus outlook is important in gauging the company's earnings picture, a powerful factor that could impact its near-term stock price is how the actual results compare to these estimates. The earnings report, which is expected to be released on August 15, 2024, might help the stock move higher if these key numbers are better than expectati ...

Investors seek growth stocks to capitalize on above-average growth in financials that help these securities grab the market's attention and produce exceptional returns. But finding a great growth stock is not easy at all.By their very nature, these stocks carry above-average risk and volatility. Moreover, if a company's growth story is over or nearing its end, betting on it could lead to significant loss.However, the task of finding cutting-edge growth stocks is made easy with the help of the Zacks Growth S ...