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Costco and Walmart are undoubtedly among the best retailers in the world. Both operate on a very similar business model, which is to offer goods at the lowest possible prices to consumers.

But which of them is the better stock to buy at current market prices? This is the question I want to answer in this video. Based on revenues over the past twelve months, Walmart's revenues are more than double those of Costco.

Walmart generated $736 billion in revenue over the past twelve months, while Costco generated $294 billion.

Over the past decade, Walmart has brilliantly turned its geographic location from a weakness into a competitive advantage against Amazon. Do you remember in 2016, when investors were worried about Walmart potentially going bankrupt and being overtaken by Amazon and its e-commerce business?

So, let's go over an example with Walmart. Walmart is a core position in my personal portfolio and something that I oftent times talk about in my private coaching community on Discord.

So Walmart, let's talk about Walmart cash secured put. Let's say that the share price is 105. You set aside $10,000. Expiration date is 30 days and you collect a very small amount of money.

Walmart has something that's called low implied volatility. When a stock has lower implied volatility, the premium is also going to be much less.

I'm sure you all know Walmart, probably one of the most And so, I'm sure everyone knows uh Walmart, one of the most like formidable American business.

Sam Walton biography Made in America is one of my favorite business book. I'm sure you've all read it. Um And Walmart has been an amazing business in America, you know, everyday low price.

Um I think that resonates obviously with all the consumers. Uh they've done incredibly incredibly well building, you know, like density across the US, sharing that scale with um their customers and offering obviously um you know, cheap item that resonates with uh with customers. And it's been an amazing investment over time.

And the first stock is Walmart. This is a very interesting case study because historically speaking, Walmart's done very well over the last decade. It's outperformed the S&P 500 by a pretty large margin.

However, in the last year now has underperformed up about 5% and year-to date actually down by 2% while the S&P 500 is up double digits. Now, it's climbed just a little bit over the last couple of days, but it is on the lower end of its 52- week range.

Think Target, Walmart, Amazon would be the first to feel the sugar high bump even though nothing about their underlying earnings changed.

So Walmart is adding Papa John's to its delivery lineup. Its third partnership after Subway and Duncan, and it's first with a chain not already inside of the Walmart stores. Orders run through Walmart's existing Spark Driver network, promising 30 minutes or less delivery, with 90% of Americans living within 10 miles of a Walmart.

The number that matters is 65% of restaurant orders already include other Walmart items, meaning the food delivery play is really a Trojan horse to grow basket size and app engagement directly encroaching on Door Dash and Uber's territories.

I'm looking forward to this last one that you brought today Mike. You've got Walmart here came under some pressure with its earnings despite a lack of consensus about whether or not they were strong.

There seems to be a great divide there. We are seeing Walmart under some pressure even though it has a 52% increase in in US marketplace sales in fiscal 27. So, how are you approaching Walmart right now? And what are your expectations going forward?

The next stock on our list is going to be Walmart, ticker WT, and it was up just 0.049% higher as it agreed to pay 50 million to settle a Department of Justice lawsuit alleging its pharmacies unlawfully filled opioid prescriptions fueling the national opioid epidemic.

Walmart,

Brandon says Walmart. I love Walmart, too. I think if we get a correction here, I think for the holiday season, I think Walmart makes a lot of sense. Grocery uh uh a tradeown for for some retail items. I like Walmart. Be on my list as well.

Walmart is lowering prices on more than 11,000 products.

And Walmart's a big one. A good place to start for the retail sector, especially we're talking about food and groceries, because they recently said, "Look, in response to the weakest sales figures we've seen in six years out of Walmart, they're cutting the prices on 11,000 items, which is double the number that they normally do.

The lowest cost retailer is lowering costs on double the number of stuff that it normally does." That tells you everything you know about this inflationary scenario. I mean, just think about what that means.

The largest retailer in the US is not behaving as if it can freely pass every additional cost on to its customers. It is investing aggressively in lowering prices to protect sales volume and to gain market share from those who can't follow along.

there's a stock and this stock is named Walmart. Now, I don't personally own Walmart stock, but it was interesting because yesterday it was all in the news. Walmart stock tumbles 9%.

Biggest downward move in years. All these sorts of things, right? Just a lot of negativity around this particular stock.