SWOT Analysis (Current State of Wal-Mart Stores Inc)

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SWOT Analysis (Current State of Wal-Mart Stores Inc)

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Wal-Mart’s strength in both local and international markets is paramount, see Appendix 1 for summative SWOT analysis (Dudovskiy, 2016). US-based Amazon and China-based Alibaba may be closing-in, but Wal-Mart remains the largest retailer in the world (Gensler, 2017). Wal-Mart’s market capitalization as at May 2017 was $221.1 Billion, and had made sales worth $485.25 (Forbes Media LLC, 2017). As the company was nearing completion of its second quarter of the year 2017, Wal-Mart was operating with about 2,300,000 employees worldwide. Despite the slight stagnation of sales growth in the last two years, Wal-Mart has sustained substantial growth in more than a decade ago, see Appendix 2 (Statista, 2017). The multinational retailer has well-established market share within the 28 countries it has developed its 11,700 stores.

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