Analysis of COVID-19’s Investment in Corporate Value

Taking Walmart as an example

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.210917.025How to use a DOI?

Keywords

COVID-19, Walmart, Value Investment, Ratio Analysis, Porter’s Five Forces, Value Chain

Abstract

In 2020, COVLD-19 became a global health problem, which significantly affected the world economy, especially the retailed industry. Walmart is one of the most considerable retailed Corporate globally, which ranked first among the Fortune Global 500 in 2020. This article will analyse the value investment of Walmart by using ratio analysis. Besides, Porter’s five forces and value chain theories will show retailed industry situation nowadays and how Walmart change its strategy to keep its value investment. We find that Walmart faces the challenge of reducing its margin profit due to the decrease of stores. To handle the risks, Walmart will put more investment into the technology in developing its eCommerce system. From our results, we conclude that Walmart has a trend that expands its business in the future. It is expected that the retailed industry will combine the two selling ways—online and offline. Thus, investors will pay more attention to eCommerce. Therefore, Walmart should improve its technology of offline logistics to keep its value investment.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuxin Jin
AU  - Wenlin Xu
AU  - Nan Zheng
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/18
TI  - Analysis of COVID-19’s Investment in Corporate Value
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Financial Management and Economic Transition (FMET 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 146
EP  - 152
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210917.025
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210917.025
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