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WALMART STORES INC.

• Company background
• Founded in 1962, Rogers, Ark.
• Incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 1969
• 1972, listed on NYSE
• 1990, becomes nations 1 retailer
• 1997 Wal-Mart has first 100 billion sales year,
  with sales totaling US105 billion.
• 2001 Wal-Mart has the biggest single day sales in
  history US1.25 billion on the day after
  Thanksgiving
• 2003 Wal-Mart topped Fortune's Global500 and
  ranked first among the "Most Admired Companies in
  America"

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Everyday Low Price

• Diversification 1)groceries, 2)international
  operations and 3)membership warehouse clubs
• 1.Groceries Supercenters and Neighborhood
  markets.
• 2.International 10 countries, Asia, Europe and
  South America
• 3.Memberships Sams clubs

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Stock Information

• WMT (Common Stock)
• ExchangeNYSE (US Dollar)
• Price48.20
• Change ()   0.59 (1.24)
• Volume13,417,400
• As of Nov.1st 2005, CGRs better than 81 of SP
  500 companies and 95.3 of Food Staple
  Retailing companies.

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Competitors

• Target Niche marketing
• Kmart (ERP), Supply-chain
• Hyvee - Price
• Costco
• Tesco Limited resources
• Carrefour Outside USA

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Fact

• If Wal-Mart was a country, it would be Chinas
  8th largest trading partner in the world,
• Luthans.
• Thats behind countries like Japan, USA, UK,
  South Korea, India, France and Germany.

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Conclusion

• Strong Buy or Hold

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