Walmart shares fell from a mid-May peak near $135, when the company was in the trillion-dollar club, and dropped 9% after its August report on weak guidance and a same-store sales miss. At $118.81, the stock sits below the $127.35 mean analyst target, about 7.2% upside, while Tigress Financial Partners' Ivan Feinseth has the Street-high target of $155.00, implying about 30.5% gain. Bulls point to advertising and marketplace growth: global advertising rose 38%, global eCommerce grew 23% to 24% of net sales, and U.S. marketplace sales rose 52%. JPMorgan kept an Overweight rating but cut its target to $125 from $137, and the stock trades at roughly 38 times forward earnings, with management planning to put tariff refunds into lower prices in the second half.
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