In three out of four categories: cash management, profitability and growth, Gauging Corporate Financial Results puts Walmart in the red zone. It only creeps into the yellow when measuring value. And all of this was before the wonderful holiday season.

Number 2 on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations, Walmart sold over $400 billion of merchandise last year in its discount stores. Some background information about Wal-Mart Stores and the business environment in which it is currently operating can be found in the look-ahead.

In summary, Walmart’s latest quarterly results produced the following changes to the gauge scores:

Cash Management: 3 of 25 (unchanged from July)
Growth: 5 of 25 (up from 1)
Profitability: 8 of 25 (up from 6)
Value: 11 of 25 (up from 9)

Overall: 32 of 100 (up from 25)

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