Walmart Stock Is A Long-Term Buy And Hold For The Ages

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Walmart stock isn't dirt cheap, but its business diversity and heavy investment spending creates a long-term opportunity. The large numbers associated withWalmart(NYSE:WMT) never cease to amaze me. 4...

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GG21
2021-05-12
GG21
[得意]
SekharS
2021-05-12
SekharS
Always there in my portfolio
stormlee
2021-05-12
stormlee
Comment & like pls
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天橋上的大爺
2021-05-12
天橋上的大爺
It is true. But for how long? Any thoughts?
SDLiuSG
2021-05-12
SDLiuSG
Agree, for dividend ?
ChooChoo0501
2021-05-12
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Any thoughts?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/193193752","repostId":1122250519,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":193105565,"gmtCreate":1620773261157,"gmtModify":1704348015182,"author":{"id":"3575949053778392","authorId":"3575949053778392","name":"SDLiuSG","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/00bc0903e8bbdc107f07a92f947eccbe","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3575949053778392","idStr":"3575949053778392"},"htmlText":"Agree, for dividend ?","listText":"Agree, for dividend ?","text":"Agree, for dividend ?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/193105565","repostId":1122250519,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":193378759,"gmtCreate":1620772503271,"gmtModify":1704347997710,"author":{"id":"3582921356143238","authorId":"3582921356143238","name":"ChooChoo0501","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c36a1716a1f99022fb42b957c91d37e1","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3582921356143238","idStr":"3582921356143238"},"htmlText":"?","listText":"?","text":"?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/193378759","repostId":1122250519,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4295824,"gmtCreate":1620773760261,"gmtModify":1680788189863,"authorId":3571959390768435,"author":{"id":3571959390768435,"idStr":"3571959390768435","authorId":3571959390768435,"name":"stormlee","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/80629ef9648273c0d6465aee66dbd98a","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"1026c425416b44e0aac28c11a0848493-2","templateUuid":"1026c425416b44e0aac28c11a0848493","name":"Senior Tiger","description":"Join the tiger community for 1000 days","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0063fb68ea29c9ae6858c58630e182d5","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/96c699a93be4214d4b49aea6a5a5d1a4","grayImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/35b0e542a9ff77046ed69ef602bc105d","redirectLinkEnabled":0,"hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2023.10.07","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":1001},"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":193378759,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Comment &amp; like pls","text":"Comment &amp; like pls","html":"Comment &amp; like pls"}],"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":84,"commentSize":19,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.29.3","shortVersion":"4.29.3","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1122250519"}