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Decision snapshot: WMT stock price vs CSCO: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at CSCO's multiple
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Implied fair value · at WMT's multiple
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Metric by metric
Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth lag
Reported gross margin
Operating income + D&A
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
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Trendline
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Price framework
USD market cap plus reported borrowing debt, less cash and equivalents. This EV proxy excludes investments, preferred stock and noncontrolling-interest adjustments.
Capital structure 95% equity / 5% debt · EV / Revenue 1.29x
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Price framework
The same filing-backed model used on each company's valuation page, with company-specific inputs and calculated scenarios.
Walmart Inc. · implied price per share
Bear
$26.01
Base
$31.42
Bull
$38.87
CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. · implied price per share
Bear
$32.30
Base
$38.62
Bull
$46.85
Balance sheet health
Inspect reported liquidity and leverage alongside historical financial-health checks.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Cash excludes investments. EBITDA is an operating-income-plus-D&A proxy. Missing borrowing categories remain unavailable; select a value to inspect its inputs.
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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LLM-powered synthesis
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If you believe WMT can sustain ROIC above 20% while gradually improving margins from 4.2% operating margin, then holding or accumulating makes sense because the stock is cheaper than CSCO on every listed valuation multiple and still has 7.8% implied upside.
WMT trades at a meaningfully lower multiple than CSCO across every listed valuation metric, with a 40.8x P/E versus 47.8x for CSCO and a far lower 1.3x P/S versus 8.5x. The implied price of $130.38 suggests only 7.8% upside from the current $120.90, so the valuation gap is present but not large enough to overcome the mixed operating picture on its own.
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