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Walmart and Amazon are racing to speed up online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too remote or too impoverished to serve profitably. Walmart has a running start in the contest to build a loyal customer base in rural America. Roughly 90% of U.S. residents live within 10 miles of a Walmart store, and 45% of the company’s full-service Supercenters are in places with populations under 20,000, according to a report by investment bank Morgan Stanley.

All three major indexes stumbled on Friday as inflation worries and geopolitical concerns dampened market optimism.

Walmart helps headline the reporting docket for retail companies next week, who has outperformed many of the Magnificent Seven members in 2026. Can the retail titan's momentum continue?

Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton takes a look at the top stories for investors to watch for the week of May 18, including Nvidia (NVDA) and Walmart (WMT) earnings, Tuesday’s Pending Home Sales report, and the release of the Fed’s April FOMC meeting minutes on Wednesday.

Traders will look backwards—and forwards—at some of the world’s biggest companies. Nvidia, the most valuable public company by market capitalization, will report earnings next week, the last of the Magnificent Seven tech companies to show investors how AI continues to transform their business.

The indexes were little changed for the week after Friday's slide on surging yields. Small caps sold off. Nvidia and Walmart earnings loom.

On paper, the U.S. economy might seem strong. There were 115,000 jobs added in April, beating expectations. But much of that growth came from health care and social assistance positions. Economists often view those jobs differently from gains in sectors like manufacturing, retail, and ...

Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT, XETRA:WMT) is expected to deliver another robust quarterly performance that reinforces the bull case for the stock, according to UBS, which said there is a high degree of alignment between investor expectations and the company’s likely results. “Overall, we think WMT’s...

Walmart's (WMT) consistent top-line growth is expected to be rewarded by the market, while its digit

Walmart and Costco continue to benefit from resilient grocery demand, with WMT gaining momentum in ads and e-commerce while COST's membership model supports steady growth.

Vita Coco (NASDAQ:COCO) executives said the company is benefiting from accelerating demand for coconut water, broader distribution gains and increasing consumer interest in functional hydration, following a first quarter in which the company reported 37% top-line growth and raised its full-year outl

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is currently trading at a 49x trailing earnings multiple - well above its historical average of 31x. While industry peers like Target Corp (NYSE: TGT) trade at significantly lower multiples, this article presents the upside case for Walmart, arguing that its premium reflects a structural pivot from a high-volume grocer to a high-margin platform.

Walmart (WMT) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.

IPO plans reportedly delayed as profitability becomes the focus

Amazon has spent years training shoppers to expect packages to arrive faster and faster. Now, the retail giant is pushing that promise even further through its ultra-fast delivery service and plans to expand it to even more cities in the near future. The new rollout brings Amazon deeper into a ...

As it gets easier to create artificial-intelligence agents with platforms like Anthropic’s Claude Cowork , some businesses are dealing with ‘AI agent sprawl.’

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Two themes critical to the U.S. stock market -- the artificial intelligence boom and inflation-pressured consumer spending -- will come under the

Walmart (WMT) has asked Flipkart to delay its initial public offering plans to focus on achieving EB

It's time to add exposure to businesses that consumers depend on regardless of the economic backdrop.

Jones Soda Co (JSDA) achieves profitability and expands market presence despite challenges in the competitive soda industry.

Overbought warnings come ahead of a massive tech and retail earnings lineup.

Walmart is expanding its partnership with Symbotic to roll out AI powered robotics across more of its logistics and distribution network. The retailer is committing substantial, ongoing investment to Symbotic systems as it upgrades warehouses and supply chain operations. This deepening relationship positions Symbotic as a key technology partner in Walmart’s broader push to modernize inventory and fulfillment. Symbotic (NasdaqGM:SYM) sits at the intersection of AI, robotics and large scale...

Walmart is eliminating or relocating more than 1,000 corporate positions in its global technology, AI, e-commerce, and advertising teams as part of a restructuring aimed at reducing duplication and accelerating focus on AI and digital priorities, according to a May 12, 2026 internal memo.

BranchOut Food (NASDAQ:BOF) executives said the company is focused on increasing factory utilization, diversifying its customer base and building inventory to support what management expects to be a record second quarter. During the company’s first-quarter 2026 earnings call, CFO John Dalfonsi said

Every major product seemingly has people who consider that item their personal favorite. My grandfather, for example, drank Moxie, a very strong soda flavor that was a New England staple. There are others who have devoted a portion of their lives to asking Coca-Cola to bring back TaB, a precursor ...

Low-cost retailer stock should be an obvious buy during stressful economic times, but the numbers aren’t matching the theory.

Costco is buying a 55-acre property in Florida. How big can the retailer get?

Walmart (WMT) is expected to report a strong Q1, with US sales, profit growth, international strengt

Major retailers across the U.S. are accelerating investments in store remodels and expansion as competition intensifies between physical retail and rapidly growing e-commerce channels. U.S. online retail spending reached $1.34 trillion in 2024 and is projected to surpass $2.5 trillion by 2030, ...

The rich get richer in two ways. One way is the way Elon Musk and Warren Buffett did. They earned it themselves. The other way is inheritance (it’s based on luck). The richest family on the lucky list is the Waltons. They have climbed onto the rich train because their father, Sam Walton, started the ... Richest Family In The World Just Got Richer