Walmart is engaged in global operations of retail, wholesale and other units, as well as eCommerce, located throughout United States, Africa, Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India and Mexico. Co.'s operations are conducted in three reportable segments: Walmart United States, which is a mass merchandiser of consumer products, operating under the Walmart and Walmart Neighborhood Market brands, as well as walmart.com, and other eCommerce brands; Walmart International, which includes various formats divided into retail, wholesale and other categories; and Sam's Club, which is a membership-only warehouse club that also operates samsclub.com. The WMT stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the WMT stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2014 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the WMT annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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