They are really drumming up this ecommerce platform to be just that, a place where not only some of the third-party sellers can come to list their products but that advertisers can come, as well, and see higher conversion rates on some of their products. And it's not all- of course, all items that Walmart has in inventory. So that is a ton, to an exponential extent, of items that they've got in inventory that are listed. This is a company that now has 400 million SKUs on its website. So that might be sort of reassuring to investors.īRAD SMITH: There are some other interesting tidbits that came up on the call. JULIE HYMAN: Pretty simply, unequivocally yes. A UBS analyst on the call asked them about that and they said, yes. One of the reasons, perhaps, that we're not seeing the stock down quite as much as it was earlier- there were a lot of questions because of this decline, this forecast that's disappointing, about Walmart was still sticking to its long-term sales growth target of 4%. So that seems to be part of what's going on. JULIE HYMAN: -maybe this private label item, this store brand item instead of this brand name item. Or I'm saying, I'm gonna take this cheaper item. In our purchasing decisions, we are all being more choiceful in this environment.īRAD SMITH: When I'm being choiceful, I am saying no to a lot of things. Choiceful, we're all being more choiceful in our grocery shopping and elsewhere in our shopping generally. JULIE HYMAN: That's- I guess that's a new word. The head of the US unit Walmart on the call, saying that consumers are more choiceful right now. Walmart, just refreshing you guys' memories, having to cut its forecast right a couple of times to sort of catch up with all of those adjustments, and now figuring out where people go from here. And all of this is sort of the legacy feedthrough of the company relying too heavily and ordering too much of what's called general merchandise, the nongrocery stuff. JULIE HYMAN: Yeah, this decline in earnings for- projected decline in earnings this year will be the second straight year that Walmart has seen a decline in earnings. I think analysts are paying close attention to that throughout this morning's report and some of what the company's chief executives are saying right now. They're forecasting and anticipating sales growth at a lower rate here today. And then, additionally, this is gonna impact their sales growth. That could persist in the near term depending upon where the consumers continue to place their priority and their purchase patterns right now. So some of those areas of weakness that they talked about on the call were toys, electronics, home, and apparel. One of them, you're gonna continue to see persistent pressure on product mix shifts. And there's two things that stuck out to me. There's two things that jump out to me- as you saw me even coming down here for the show, I was still listening in to this earnings call just to get some nuggets of information for our viewers here that isn't directly called out within this earnings release. We've been tracking shares of WMT premarket and they have been lower. Walmart is out with its latest earnings and the retail giant posted a disappointing profit outlook, signaling a rocky year ahead after a strong holiday quarter here. Video TranscriptīRAD SMITH: Let's get back to thing number one here of the day and check in on the health of the consumer. "And Walmart's value proposition is really resonating with consumers right now."īoth the market and analysts seem to agree.Yahoo Finance Live anchors Brad Smith and Julie Hyman discuss the decline in stock for Walmart following fourth-quarter earnings. "In the face of a pretty challenging macro environment, we're seeing that consumers are looking for value," Walmart CFO John David Rainey said on Yahoo Finance Live. Earnings are expected to drop by 3% to 5%. same-store sales rising by 3% in the fourth quarter. Inventory was up 12.4% year over year, slowing from a 25% clip in the second quarter. same-store sales were up 8.2%, beating consensus estimates of 3.5%.Īdjusted earnings beat estimates by $0.18. Here are some top takeaways from Walmart's quarter: Walmart earnings also stood in stark contrast to the downbeat results posted by rival Target on Wednesday. The analyst's bullish call comes after a much improved third quarter from the world's largest retailer on Tuesday. A boy and his father walk through the toy section of Walmart in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, U.S., on November 29, 2019.
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