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Walmart Inc. (WMT)

Would this rule have fired?

SEC EDGAR XBRL companyfacts

Operating Margin stays at or above 0.0%

Coverage

Walmart Inc. reports Operating Margin in all 30 filed fiscal years we test against, FY1997 to FY2026. A rule on it can be measured against every one of them, and it is re-checked every night.

This page prints only figures that resolve to a document on sec.gov. 31 further fiscal years are held for this company from a commercial data feed, and are left out here rather than shown without a filing you can open.

Result

This rule held in all 10 filed fiscal years it could be measured in. It never fired once.

Over those years the figure ranged from 3.3% to 4.7%. The line asked about sits at 0.0%, which is 3.3% below the worst year this company has filed. A rule that far from the filed range is a quiet one. Move the line and the years below re-test.

Operating Margin stays at or above 0.0%, tested year by year against filed accounts
FYValueStatusFiledDocument
20174.7%held2017-03-3110-K on sec.gov
20184.1%held2018-03-3010-K on sec.gov
20194.3%held2019-03-2810-K on sec.gov
20203.9%held2020-03-2010-K on sec.gov
20214.0%held2021-03-1910-K on sec.gov
20224.5%held2022-03-1810-K on sec.gov
20233.3%held2023-03-1710-K on sec.gov
20244.2%held2024-03-1510-K on sec.gov
20254.3%held2025-03-1410-K on sec.gov
20264.2%held2026-03-1310-K on sec.gov
10 years tested0 fired 10 held

Filed figures from SEC EDGAR. This is a computation on public filings, not a recommendation, and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results.

Filed figures from SEC EDGAR. This is a computation on public filings, not a recommendation, and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results. See the risk disclaimer.

What this is not

It is not a backtest. It does not model what a portfolio would have returned, it compounds nothing, and it does not know what the share price did. It answers one question: on the accounts this company filed, in which years was that condition false? Every entry above is a fiscal year, a filed figure and the filing it came from.

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