Company Overview

Provide a brief overview of Walmart

Financial Statement Analysis

Provide a three$-$year analysis of Walmart's liquidity ratios, asset management ratios, debt management ratios, and profitability ratios.

Your ratio calculations must be provided as an appendix.

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Walmart based on the aforementioned analysis.

Risk

Retrieve the beta for walmart and for two other direct competitors.

You can use Yahoo Finance to find this information.

Discuss how the beta of Walmart relates to the beta of the two direct competitors.

Discuss possible risk factors attributed to Walmart of the industry they are in$.$

Discuss possible macro factors attributed to the entire market.

Cost of Capital

Retrieve the cost of capital for Walmart and for two other direct competitors.

You can easily find this information on Google.

Discuss how the cost of capital for Walmart relates to the cost of capital for the two other direct competitors.

Discuss some of the reasons why the cost of capital may differ across companies.

Capital Structure

Calculate the capital structure for Walmart for the last three years.

Discuss the trend in the capital structure for Walmart.

Discuss the factors that could influence the capital structure for any company.

Conclusion

Discuss any interesting things you learned about Walmart during this assignment.

Discuss recommendations for improvement you may have for Walmart.

Discuss whether this is a company you would want to invest in if given the opportunity. Why or why not?

Provide any additional concluding thoughts regarding Walmart.

Page Length: Five$-$six pages double$-$spaced, not including the title page and reference page. $($Submission should adhere to APA standard$)$