Walmart Stock News

Walmart Inc shares ticked up on Tuesday after the retail giant named Venessa Yates as the new head of its Canadian division. She would succeed Gonzalo Gebara as chief executive and president in the “coming weeks,” a statement said on Tuesday.

Walmart's decision to dial back its diversity, equity and inclusion "DEI" programs was widely celebrated by conservatives, but some shareholders and Democratic officials are pushing back.

With Wall Street seemingly focused only on artificial intelligence and GLP-1 weight-loss drug stocks lately, it might surprise some of these investors to learn that Walmart (WMT 0.70%) was actually a solid growth stock in 2024. A look at its total return performance would show that it blew past the S&P 500 as well as many other popular growth stocks.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued PepsiCo on Friday for offering preferential pricing to a large retailer, whom a source familiar with the matter confirmed was Walmart.

BENTONVILLE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Walmart unveiled its New Home Office campus in Northwest Arkansas, a 350-acre sustainably designed workplace to serve as the heartbeat of the world's largest company. This campus establishes a new standard for corporate headquarters that prioritizes worker well-being, environmental stewardship, and public accessibility. The state-of-the art campus repr...

Walmart and Symbotic announced a deal Tuesday that would find the Massachusetts robotics firm taking control of the mega-retailer's automation business. Symbotic is paying $200 million in cash for the program, plus up to $350 million in “additional contingent consideration,” depending on how the deal shakes out.

Walmart selects Symbotic to develop a solution to automate the retailer's accelerated pickup and delivery centers.

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