What stores are ranked directly below Wal-Mart?
October 2, 2006 7:28 PM Subscribe
In this NYT article, it says "...Wal-Mart's $312 billion in sales last year exceeded the sales of the next five biggest retailers combined." How can I find out who those five big retailers are and how much they made? Are these rankings based on U.S. sales, or worldwide + U.S.? Googling gives me data for 2004, but I can't find anything for 2005.
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posted by invisible ink at 7:38 PM on October 2, 2006
posted by invisible ink at 7:38 PM on October 2, 2006
Worldwide revenue as reported on the NYSE. So I would say worldwide (revenues repatriated are reported) with the exception of the Wal-Mart subsidary in Mexico (which Wal-Mart owns 63% of that).
The other ones are (given a year there's probably change) as Home Depot, Target, CostCo and Kroger.
BUT Wal-Mart revenue numbers include Sam's Club, so really CostCo may show low revenue numbers but we have no idea how well it compares to Sam's Club as those are all hidden by Wal-Mart revenues. Similar with Wal-Mart's grocery sales and Kroger or Wal-Mart prime stores versus Target. Studying financials is hard.
I like finance.google.com for interface but finance.yahoo.com is sometimes more thorough.
posted by geoff. at 7:43 PM on October 2, 2006
The other ones are (given a year there's probably change) as Home Depot, Target, CostCo and Kroger.
BUT Wal-Mart revenue numbers include Sam's Club, so really CostCo may show low revenue numbers but we have no idea how well it compares to Sam's Club as those are all hidden by Wal-Mart revenues. Similar with Wal-Mart's grocery sales and Kroger or Wal-Mart prime stores versus Target. Studying financials is hard.
I like finance.google.com for interface but finance.yahoo.com is sometimes more thorough.
posted by geoff. at 7:43 PM on October 2, 2006
For the sake of completeness, here are the top six retailers from the pdf from Stores.org that SeizeTheDay linked to:
posted by mhum at 11:56 PM on October 2, 2006
Company 2005 Revenues ('000) Walmart $315,427,000 Home Depot 81,511,000 Kroger 60,552,900 Sears Holdings 53,962,000 Costco 52,935,228 Target 52,620,000The sales of the next 5 retailers below Walmart is just over $301B, compared to Walmart's $315B.
posted by mhum at 11:56 PM on October 2, 2006
That's only US-based retailers (though it includes global revenue). The global top 6 excluding WalMart reported 2004 revenues of:
posted by patricio at 2:09 AM on October 3, 2006
Company 2004 Revenues ('000) Carrefour $90,389 Home Depot $73,094 Metro AG $70,165 Tesco Plc $62,505 Kroger $56,434At $352,587,000, still only just bigger than WalMart!
posted by patricio at 2:09 AM on October 3, 2006
Not to quibble, but Wal-Mart is probably consolidating the sales of Wal-Mart de Mexico if they own 63% of it. GAAP is for full consolidation of enitities controlled by the parent.
posted by JPD at 2:59 AM on October 3, 2006
posted by JPD at 2:59 AM on October 3, 2006
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posted by SeizeTheDay at 7:35 PM on October 2, 2006