WMT Analysis
Walmart Inc. — is the distribution income, or your own capital coming back?
Distributions plus NAV growth
Over the last 1Y, WMT paid a 1.3% distribution yield and its NAV rose 12.9% — holders kept the distributions and the price appreciation.
This verdict is generated from fixed thresholds applied to live price and distribution data, not written per fund. Two funds with the same profile always get the same wording.
How WMT generates income
WMT is an income-focused ETF issued by Walmart. Dividend King with 53 consecutive years of dividend increases and a market cap north of $1 trillion. The world's largest retailer with annual revenue over $650B, Walmart executed a 3-for-1 stock split in February 2024. Recent dividend raise lifted the annual payout to $0.99/share (+5% YoY) for fiscal 2027. Yield is very low (~0.7%) because the stock has compounded faster than the dividend — Walmart is a dividend-growth story rather than a high-yield play.
The fund is designed for investors who prioritize regular income distributions. The yield comes from a combination of dividends from the underlying holdings and any income-generating strategies the fund employs.
- Income source
- Dividends from underlying holdings
- Issuer
- Walmart
WMT price return since first distribution
The capital half of total return. Read it against the cumulative distributions below — the two together are what a holder actually earned.
Cumulative price return: +108.67%
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Cumulative distributions collected
Running total of per-share distributions since the first payment on record — 210 payments.
Total collected per share since inception: $41.59
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