Wal-Mart: Financial Gauge Analysis for the October 2010 Quarter

Neil Carvin submits:

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) earned $0.95 per diluted share on a GAAP basis in the October-ending third quarter of fiscal 2011, up 16 percent from $0.81 in the same three months of last year.

A special tax benefit added $0.05 per share to reported earnings in the most recent quarter.

A previous article examined Wal-Mart's Income Statement for the October quarter in some detail. Excluding the tax benefit, adjusted earnings nearly matched the $0.90 per share we had forecast.

We have now updated the various financial metrics we use to analyze Cash Management, Growth, Profitability and Value. This post reports on the metrics for Wal-Mart and the associated financial gauge scores. The metrics were calculated using data from Wal-Mart's current and historical financial statements, including those in the latest 10-Q report.

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