Walmart

OF the stock Walmart, WMT (Retail, ~$374B), answer the questions below, explain your answers carefully and provide full calculation process when needed.

References: Provide full references, citations and/or sources of any idea, data or information that is not your own (paste the link after each answer). Most of the basic data and information needed can be found on the company website, in the company’s annual report (10K) that must be filed with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and accessible through the latter’s EDGAR database, or at finance.yahoo.com.

Company Stock

What is the stock ticker (symbol)?
What is the exchange where the stock shares are traded?
What is the closing price, the number of shares outstanding, and the market capitalization value of the stock, using the following two checkpoints: 1/2/2020 and 7/24/2020?
What is the current Price-Earnings (P/E) ratio?
What is, if any, the last dollar amount of dividend per share (indicate the payment date and the period the dividend covered)? What is the dividend yield?
As of 7/24/2020 (or the most recent available), what is the consensus analyst recommendation and price target?
What is the typical bid-ask spread on this stock? [Check the spread on a 5-day period and report the average, as well as the raw data on spread.] Briefly discuss how important the spread is for someone investing in this stock.
What is the short interest in this stock? Give the date on which you measure this and express it in total shares and as a percent of the oat.
Suppose you had invested $10,000 in this stock on 1/2/2020:
Calculate the holding period return if you sold the stock at the closing price on 7/24/ 2020. (Consider any dividend that might have been paid during that period.)
Calculate the period geometric mean return?
Calculate the total value of this investment, given your initial investment and the estimated mean return.
What is the stock’s beta (β)? How does the beta you obtained from other source(s) compare with the estimated beta (estimated β = 0.396)? What does the value of beta tell about the riskiness of the stock, compared to the market index?
What is the CAPM expected return for this stock? You can use external estimates; but be sure to explain where you got your estimates and defend your assumptions.
Sensitivity to business cycles: Is this stock “cyclical”, “non-cyclical” or “defensive”?
Size: Is this stock “Small” or “Large” (or medium) stock?
Style: Is this stock “Value” or “Growth” (or neutral) stock?

[Note: Size (Small, Medium, Large) refers to the market capitalization of equity. Style (Value versus Growth) may be determined by using “Book/market” is the ratio of book value of equity to the market value of equity. Use your own minimal research or best educated guess to answer (m) and (n)].

Select one news event from approximately the last six months for this company. Briefly discuss the impact of the event on the stock price and the implications for market efficiency.
Are there traded options on this stock? If yes, select any one contract for the call option and any one contract for the put option (If there are no options, use options on Apple, AAPL). For each of them, report the following:
Contract name
Date
Strike (or Exercise) price
Last price
Bid price
Ask price
Open interest
Implied volatility
Intrinsic value (you may calculate this using the last price and the strike price). Is the option “At-The-Money”, “In-The-Money” or “Out-Of-The-Money”?

What is your overall evaluation of this stock? Would you recommend the purchase or sale of the stock? Why? (Brief)

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