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The No. 1 Reason to Buy and Hold Walmart Forever Has Virtually Nothing to Do With Its Brick-and-Mortar Stores
Key takeaways
- Walmart s $30 billion buyback program and $14.92 billion in free cash flow are the real compounding engine, not its 0.80% dividend yield.
- Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Walmart didn t make the cut.
- Walmart (NYSE:WMT) fits the profile of a multi-decade compounder because the company has quietly built a high-margin digital flywheel that now compounds independently of any single store it operates.
The No. 1 Reason to Buy and Hold Walmart Forever Has Virtually Nothing to Do With Its Brick-and-Mortar Stores Joe Raedle / Getty Images News via Getty Images Alex Sirois Sat, June 6, 2026 at 9:43 PM GMT+7 3 min read WMT NVDA Quick Read Walmart (WMT) digital advertising rose 37% and marketplace sales surged nearly 50%, together accounting for a quarter of company profits.
Walmart s $30 billion buyback program and $14.92 billion in free cash flow are the real compounding engine, not its 0.80% dividend yield.
Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Walmart didn t make the cut. Grab the names FREE today.
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