$WMT
13 long-form articles and 15 pre-market mentions covering $WMT from AskMelon Research.
FEMSA's 97% profit surge is mostly an accounting mirage — strip it and earnings fell 36%
FEMSA's first-quarter 2026 headline read like a triumph: net consolidated income up 97.3% to Ps. 17,639 million, total revenue up 6.1% year over year, the stock popping 5.6% on the day. But the forens…
TJX beats, raises, and still leaves no margin for error at 34 times earnings
TJX just printed a near-flawless quarter — net sales of $14.3 billion up 9%, consolidated comps up 6%, pretax margin of 12.0% up a full 1.7 points, diluted EPS of $1.19 up 29% — and management raised …
Chewy's growth slides to 7.7% as guidance cut sends shares to a new floor
Chewy just printed its strongest profit quarter ever — $94.8 million of GAAP net income, record free cash flow, a 30.1% gross margin — and the stock fell anyway, because the only number the market car…
Dollar Tree's 38% EPS jump rests on a tariff windfall and a price moat it already abandoned
Dollar Tree closed its Family Dollar mistake on July 5, 2025, and the market re-rated the survivor as a clean compounder: 7.2% sales growth, comps of 3.5%, gross margin up 120 basis points, and adjust…
Dollar General's margin recovery runs on shrink math, not a richer customer
Wall Street cheered Dollar General's June quarter: net sales up 3.4% to $10.79 billion, gross margin a fat 31.6%, operating profit up 10.8% to $638.5 million, and a raised full-year earnings outlook t…
Walmart Is Priced Like an Ad Company While Two-Thirds of Its Profit Is Still Retail
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Costco Sells Groceries at Cost and Trades Like a Tech Stock
Costco is, by almost any measure, the finest retailer in America — a membership fortress with 148 million cardholders, renewal rates around 90%, and a brand so trusted that customers pay an annual fee…
Who Actually Makes the Kirkland Vodka
A meditation on the Costco private-label model, the supplier guessing game it has spawned, and the seventy-billion-dollar margin arbitrage hiding behind the warehouse's most quietly competitive produc…
The Five-Billion-Dollar Debt That Killed the Toy Aisle
A meditation on the 2005 Toys R Us LBO, the underinvestment pattern it imposed for thirteen years, and the asymmetric distribution of outcomes structural to leveraged-buyout finance.
The Convenience Store the Size of a Walmart
A meditation on Buc-ee's, the cleanest highway bathrooms in America, and the discovery that the actual product of a roadside stop is the stop itself.
The Slow Death of America's General Store
A meditation on Sears, the century-long decline from largest American retailer to bankruptcy, and the accumulated cost of missing every consumer-behavior transition for forty consecutive years.
The Bookcase You Pay For With Your Time
A meditation on IKEA flat-pack design, the implicit hourly wage the customer accepts at assembly, and the cube-utilization multiplier that lets one truck move forty bookcases instead of six.
The $19 Smoothie That Is Actually a Loss Leader
A meditation on Erewhon, the celebrity-collaboration menu, and how Los Angeles built a grocery store whose central product is the chance to be seen carrying its tote bag.
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Operation Economic Outcast landed Monday afternoon as promised — Treasury Secretary Bessent issued five formal sectoral sanctions determinations covering digital assets, technology, gold, aviation, an…
Monday, August 24, 2026
US–Canada trade talks collapsed Friday evening after Trump added last-minute terms on vehicles and cultural sovereignty protections; 50% tariffs on $28 billion of Canadian goods took effect at midnigh…
Sunday, August 23, 2026
The three-week S&P 500 winning streak ended as 30-year Treasury yields spiked to 5.34% — their highest since 2007 — and the US national debt crossed $40 trillion for the first time, swamping the FOMC …
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Your Saturday morning market coffee. A week that opened with Reddit's first Tuesday as an S&P 500 member — the stock surging intraday to $178.33 before index-fund buying exhausted itself and sellers d…
Saturday, August 22, 2026
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Saturday, August 22, 2026
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Friday, August 21, 2026
ROST's Thursday-after-hours blowout — EPS $2.66 vs $1.94E (+37%), comps +10%, FY guide raised, CEO calling off-price "the winning sector" — closes the week's consumer narrative with the clearest beat …
Thursday, August 20, 2026
The single event that rewired the tape was not an earnings print or the Fed minutes — it was the Treasury's decision to more than double its long-end debt buybacks, which pulled the 10-year from a 20-…
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Trump's rejection of the Iran ceasefire extension has closed the diplomatic off-ramp, sent Brent to $91 and the 30-year Treasury yield to its highest level since 2007 (5.31%), converting Tuesday's tap…
Sunday, August 16, 2026
The week of August 10–14, 2026 delivered a split verdict that will define the next two weeks: three consecutive macro data misses — PPI flat (0.0% MoM, below the +0.2% consensus), Retail Sales −0.6% M…
Saturday, August 15, 2026
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Saturday, May 23, 2026
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
The dual binary that has suppressed three consecutive S&P losses arrives today: FOMC April Minutes drop at 2:00 PM ET revealing the 8-4 dissent's rate-hike language, and NVIDIA Q1 FY2027 prints after …
Sunday, May 17, 2026
The week that began at S&P 500 ATH 7,398.93 ended at 7,408.50 — nominally flat — but the path was anything but: CSCO raised its AI orders full-year guidance to $9B, AMAT printed a record quarter, Wars…
Saturday, May 16, 2026
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