{"id":989827,"date":"2026-02-04T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989827"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:02:25","slug":"walmart-hits-1-trillion-market-cap-days-after-new-ceo-made-it-clear-that-he-is-willing-to-change-everything-except","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/walmart-hits-1-trillion-market-cap-days-after-new-ceo-made-it-clear-that-he-is-willing-to-change-everything-except\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart hits $1 trillion market cap, days after new CEO made it clear that he is willing to change everything except &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart reached a market capitalization of over $1 trillion on Tuesday (February 3). This makes the American company the first retailer in the world to join an exclusive club of companies to reach a 13-figure valuation that mostly consists of technology companies like Google, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta. The company has been riding on a year-long rally that has seen its shares rise nearly 26%. The retail giant reached the $1 trillion mark only about two weeks after it moved from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to the Nasdaq-100. The trillion-dollar tag also comes only two days after new CEO John Furner took over for longtime CEO Doug McMillon. Walmart&#8217;s ascent has been notable as it has managed to tap into a mix of appealing simultaneously to higher-income customers seeking value and convenience and retaining its core base of lower-income shoppers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart reached a market capitalization of over $1 trillion on Tuesday (February 3). This makes the American company the first retailer in the world to join an exclusive club of companies to reach a 13-figure valuation that mostly consists of technology companies like Google, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta. The company has been riding on a year-long rally that has seen its shares rise nearly 26%. The retail giant reached the $1 trillion mark only about two weeks after it moved from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to the Nasdaq-100. The trillion-dollar tag also comes only two days after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989827","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}