DILLARD’S, INC. vs WALMART INC., two Discount Stores stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where DDS and WMT diverge most: on debt / equity, DDS reads 0.00 and WMT reads 0.48; on revenue growth, DDS reads +0.5% and WMT reads +6.2%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's DDS price has a different growth bar priced in than WMT (+10.9% implied for DDS vs +14.9% for WMT); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What WMT's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | DDS | WMT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $640.09 | $111.36 |
| Market cap | $10.0B | $888.4B |
| Sector | Discount Stores | Discount Stores |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +10.9% | +14.9% |
| P/E | 14.7 | 40.4 |
| P/B | 4.71 | 8.50 |
| P/S | 1.51 | 1.21 |
| EV/EBITDA | 51.9 | 19.6 |
| Revenue growth | +0.5% | +6.2% |
| Gross margin | 39.1% | — |
| Operating margin | — | 5.0% |
| Net margin | 10.3% | 3.0% |
| Return on equity | 32.1% | 21.1% |
| Return on assets | 18.2% | 7.5% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 17.0% |
| FCF yield | 6.3% | 1.5% |
| Dividend yield | 4.9% | 0.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.48 |
| Current ratio | 3.03 | 0.77 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 10.00 | 8.99 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 5 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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