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Go to the Yahoo Stock Screener and use this page to find Wal-Mart. Write a paper discussing what you find interesting about Wal-Mart and whether or not you think Wal-Mart will have a successful future.

Get to the Wal-Mart web site, into the "investors relations" section and provide some financial highlights of Wal-Mart for the past year. Indicate which stock exchange Wal-Mart is listed on and what was the past 12 month rate of return (% gain or loss) to investors who bought shares of this company a year ago and sold the shares yesterday. This rate of return is called the one-year Holding Period Return, or HPR. Also state what is the most recent price of the shares on the company?

In addition discuss briefly some information about the top management team including the CEO and CFO. If there are any issues involved with the company that relate to the issues discussed in the case assignment, mention them briefly as well.

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Please see the attachments; find a report discussing the value of PE Ratio, EPS, and PEG. Furthermore, a financial highlight of Wal-mart is provided, along with rate of return, current price, ...

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