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For this week's discussion we need to select a public company an evaluate the company's stocks performance over the last year using Yahoo Finance to see how the company stock has changed throughout the course of a year. The company I chose is Walmart Inc (WMT) since it takes most of my paycheck on a monthly basis. So essentially, I am fully invested in the company's profits. Over the last year the Walmart Inc stock's performance has been fluctuating with a high of $155.19 per share and a low as $117.90 per share. When looking at Walmart Inc performance for the past year Market watch is showing that they would receive a 29.59% performance rating, which is not that high. Is this because they are recovering from the pandemic?

Some market forces that might have influenced the value of the company's stock at its peaks and valleys are company news and performance, industry performance, investor sentiment and economic factors. The company's news and performance can affect the share pricing because it can indicate growth (new products) or a decline (product recall). Industry performance can affect the share prices in good and bad ways, if a company that has a similar product cannot produce the product, then your company's shares would increase and vice versa. Investor sentiment and economic factors kind of go hand in hand, if the economic is good the investor will feel comfortable investing in the company's stock if they think and see growth in the company, but they will do the opposite if the economic is bad like have high interest rates, the company has to lay employees off, etc.

Some of the things that my finding indicate about my selected company's financial health is that the company's stock is performing okay for the most part. If I decide to invest, I have a lot to learn.