{"id":841925,"date":"2025-04-18T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T02:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/walmart-shares-drop-as-retailer-says-profit-growth-will-slow\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T02:12:04","slug":"walmart-shares-drop-as-retailer-says-profit-growth-will-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/walmart-shares-drop-as-retailer-says-profit-growth-will-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart shares drop as retailer says profit growth will slow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Walmart<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> shares fell more than 6% Thursday, as the big-box retailer said profit growth will slow this fiscal year even as sales continue to climb.<\/p>\n

Walmart said holiday-quarter revenue rose about 4% and e-commerce sales shot up 20% in the U.S., as growth in store pickup and home deliveries and gains with upper-income shoppers<\/a> boosted results. But its outlook disappointed Wall Street.<\/p>\n

In the fiscal year ahead, the discounter said it expects net sales to grow 3% to 4% and adjusted operating income to increase between 3.5% to 5.5% on a constant currency basis. The company said that includes a 150 basis point, or 1.5 percentage point, headwind from acquiring smart TV company Vizio<\/a> and following a leap year in 2024.\u00a0For the just completed fiscal year, Walmart posted adjusted operating income growth of 9.7% on a constant currency basis.<\/p>\n

The company also said it expects full-year adjusted earnings of $2.50 to $2.60 per share, which includes a 5 cent per share headwind from currency. That fell short of the $2.76 per share Wall Street had expected.<\/p>\n

In an interview with CNBC, Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey described consumer spending patterns as “steady” and said “there’s not any sharp changes that we’ve seen.”<\/p>\n

Yet he acknowledged “there’s far from certainty in the geopolitical landscape.”<\/p>\n

About two-thirds of what Walmart sells is made, grown or assembled in the U.S. Yet if tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada<\/a> take effect, he said Walmart is “not going to be completely immune.”<\/p>\n

“We’ve lived in a tariff environment for the last seven or eight years, and we’ll do what we know how to do,” he said. “We’ll work with suppliers. We’ll lean into our private brand. We’ll shift supply where necessary to try to take advantage of lower costs that we can then pass on to consumers.”<\/p>\n

Since Walmart is not sure if the tariffs will take effect next month, the company did not factor them into its guidance, Rainey said.<\/p>\n

Here is what the big-box retailer reported for the fiscal fourth quarter compared with Wall Street’s estimates, according to a survey of analysts by LSEG:<\/p>\n