The world’s largest retailer sees its stock come alive again, finally.
Walmart’s stock (WMT) has widely lagged the S&P 500 (^GSPC) this year (3.8% gain for Walmart vs. 18% gain for the S&P 500) as investors fret about slowing sales and earnings growth after a big year of consumers stocking up during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Inflation in labor and transportation (as mentioned by vendors to Walmart in the past few weeks such as Clorox, Proctor & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark) and what…
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