![]() And it's not all- of course, all items that Walmart has in inventory. So that is a ton, to an exponential extent, of items that they've got in inventory that are listed. This is a company that now has 400 million SKUs on its website. So that might be sort of reassuring to investors.īRAD SMITH: There are some other interesting tidbits that came up on the call. JULIE HYMAN: Pretty simply, unequivocally yes. A UBS analyst on the call asked them about that and they said, yes. One of the reasons, perhaps, that we're not seeing the stock down quite as much as it was earlier- there were a lot of questions because of this decline, this forecast that's disappointing, about Walmart was still sticking to its long-term sales growth target of 4%. So that seems to be part of what's going on. JULIE HYMAN: -maybe this private label item, this store brand item instead of this brand name item. ![]() Or I'm saying, I'm gonna take this cheaper item. In our purchasing decisions, we are all being more choiceful in this environment.īRAD SMITH: When I'm being choiceful, I am saying no to a lot of things. Choiceful, we're all being more choiceful in our grocery shopping and elsewhere in our shopping generally. JULIE HYMAN: That's- I guess that's a new word. The head of the US unit Walmart on the call, saying that consumers are more choiceful right now. Walmart, just refreshing you guys' memories, having to cut its forecast right a couple of times to sort of catch up with all of those adjustments, and now figuring out where people go from here. And all of this is sort of the legacy feedthrough of the company relying too heavily and ordering too much of what's called general merchandise, the nongrocery stuff. JULIE HYMAN: Yeah, this decline in earnings for- projected decline in earnings this year will be the second straight year that Walmart has seen a decline in earnings. I think analysts are paying close attention to that throughout this morning's report and some of what the company's chief executives are saying right now. They're forecasting and anticipating sales growth at a lower rate here today. And then, additionally, this is gonna impact their sales growth. That could persist in the near term depending upon where the consumers continue to place their priority and their purchase patterns right now. So some of those areas of weakness that they talked about on the call were toys, electronics, home, and apparel. One of them, you're gonna continue to see persistent pressure on product mix shifts. And there's two things that stuck out to me. There's two things that jump out to me- as you saw me even coming down here for the show, I was still listening in to this earnings call just to get some nuggets of information for our viewers here that isn't directly called out within this earnings release. We've been tracking shares of WMT premarket and they have been lower. Walmart is out with its latest earnings and the retail giant posted a disappointing profit outlook, signaling a rocky year ahead after a strong holiday quarter here. Video TranscriptīRAD SMITH: Let's get back to thing number one here of the day and check in on the health of the consumer. Elevance Health slid 7% and CVS Health, which owns Aetna, declined 6%.Yahoo Finance Live anchors Brad Smith and Julie Hyman discuss the decline in stock for Walmart following fourth-quarter earnings. Humana, which also has a large business caring for Medicare members, slumped 13.5%. UnitedHealth, which has a market cap of $424 billion, fell 7%. The stocks of health insurance companies tumbled on Wednesday following the warning. The insurer is incorporating this higher level of demand into the prices it sets for plans it offers next year in the private market for health insurance for older Americans, known as Medicare Advantage. The "strong" level of care older Americans are seeking out suggests that people are getting more comfortable getting procedures they put off during the pandemic, the UnitedHealth Group executive said. UnitedHealth Group expects to spend more of its members' premiums on medical care in the second quarter, driven by a rise in outpatient care for Americans 65 and older in Medicare plans, CFO John Rex said Tuesday at a Goldman Sachs investor conference. Older Americans are starting to get more procedures like hip and knee surgeries, and it's driving up how much one of the biggest US health insurers is spending on medical care. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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