How Investors May Respond To Walmart (WMT) Expanding Milk Production And Higher-Margin Beauty And Food Brands

• In recent weeks, Walmart opened a US$350.00 million, 300,000+ square-foot milk processing facility in Valdosta, Georgia and welcomed multiple brand partners, including a nationwide GLO24K LED skincare rollout to more than 200 stores and expanded availability of Filippo Berio olive oils across its U.S. network.
• These moves underline Walmart’s push to deepen control over essential grocery supply chains while broadening into higher-margin, innovation-led categories like beauty technology and premium food.
• We’ll now examine how Walmart’s new Valdosta milk facility and GLO24K partnership influence its investment narrative around supply chain control and category mix.

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Walmart Investment Narrative Recap

To own Walmart, you generally need to believe its scale, omni-channel strategy, and higher-margin businesses can offset thin retail margins and rising costs. The new Valdosta milk facility and GLO24K rollout modestly support this thesis near term by tightening control over grocery supply and nudging mix toward premium and innovation-led categories, but they do not materially change the key short term catalyst of scaling profitable digital/omni-channel growth or the biggest risk around ongoing margin pressure from logistics, wages, and competition.

The Valdosta milk facility is the most relevant recent announcement here, because it directly touches Walmart’s supply chain economics in a core, everyday category. By processing and bottling Great Value and Member’s Mark milk for more than 650 stores and clubs across the Southeast, it fits into the same story as e-commerce logistics and automation: if Walmart can squeeze more efficiency from essential grocery, it has more room to invest in customer experience, digital capabilities, and higher-margin categories like beauty tech devices and premium food.

Yet even with these supply chain gains, investors still need to be aware that persistent delivery and wage cost inflation could...

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Walmart's narrative projects $789.9 billion revenue and $27.4 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 4.5% yearly revenue growth and about a $6.1 billion earnings increase from $21.3 billion today.

Uncover how Walmart's forecasts yield a $118.38 fair value, a 3% upside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

Seventeen members of the Simply Wall St Community currently see Walmart’s fair value between US$91.38 and US$118.38, underscoring how far views can spread. Set against this, the biggest near term watchpoint remains whether rising logistics and labor costs outpace the benefits from e-commerce scale and mix shift, so it is worth comparing several of these perspectives before forming your own view.

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