Walmart authorizes $30B for stock buybacks

How big is it?

Walmart bought back $7.0B of stock in the twelve months to Jul 31, 2026. At that pace, $30.0B covers about 4.3 years of buybacks.

The amount equals 222% of its free cash flow over the same twelve months ($13.5B).

Its diluted share count is down 0.5% from a year earlier.

An authorization is permission, not a promise: the company can buy less, more slowly, or not at all, and usually doesn't have to say when it buys.

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