Walmart Inc. WMT

104.26 0.34 0.33% as of 1 Oct
Market cap
$826.5B
P/E
37.5×
Indexes indicate stock being part of an index,
Growth Flags show if company had growth for consecutive years

Walmart Inc. (WMT) Operating margin

Walmart Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 31 July 2026 was 4.39%, up 0.2 percentage points from fiscal 2026 (4.18%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 3.34% (fiscal 2023) to 5.59% (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 50% of that period. That is in line with the Discount Stores industry median of 4.45% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.80%.

Operating margin, annual

Embed this chart

Annual

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2026 4.18% (0.13)
FY2025 4.31% 0.14
FY2024 4.17% 0.83
FY2023 3.34% (1.19)
FY2022 4.53% 0.50
FY2021 4.03% 0.10
FY2020 3.93% (0.34)
FY2019 4.27% 0.19
FY2018 4.08% (0.61)
FY2017 4.69% (0.31)

Quarterly

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Jul 2026 4.99% 0.77
Apr 2026 4.22% (0.35)
Jan 2026 4.57% 0.84
Oct 2025 3.73% (0.38)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 3.34% High 5.59%
Ten-year median 4.22%
Current reading's percentile 50

Operating margin against peers

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

The full definition of Operating margin →

More on WMT