{"id":989639,"date":"2026-02-04T08:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989639"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:43:24","slug":"walmart-hits-1-trillion-market-value-joins-club-dominated-by-big-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/walmart-hits-1-trillion-market-value-joins-club-dominated-by-big-tech-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart hits $1 trillion market value, joins club dominated by Big Tech giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart became the first retailer ever to hit $1 trillion in market valuation on Tuesday, riding on a year-long rally that has seen its shares rise nearly 26%, placing it among the ranks of Big Tech heavyweights such as Nvidia and Alphabet. <\/p>\n<p>Walmart&#8217;s ascent has been notable as it has managed to tap into \u200ca mix of \u200cappealing simultaneously to higher-income customers seeking value and convenience and retaining its core base of lower-income shoppers. The stock has surged 468% over the past decade, outpacing the S&amp;P \u200c500&#8217;s 264% gain, in part due to that dual strategy, which competitors have struggled to replicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart became the first retailer ever to hit $1 trillion in market valuation on Tuesday, riding on a year-long rally that has seen its shares rise nearly 26%, placing it among the ranks of Big Tech heavyweights such as Nvidia and Alphabet. Walmart&#8217;s ascent has been notable as it has managed to tap into \u200ca mix of \u200cappealing simultaneously to higher-income customers seeking value and convenience and retaining its core base of lower-income shoppers. The stock has surged 468% over the past decade, outpacing the S&amp;P \u200c500&#8217;s 264% gain, in part due to that dual strategy, which competitors have struggled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}