Jim Cramer Discusses These 10 Stocks & Comments On Short Sellers

4. Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT)

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Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT) is the largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the world. It has benefited from a tight consumer spending environment by leveraging its scale to offer low prices. Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT) stock has gained 44% over the past year, but its shares are down by 2.7% year-to-date. A tepid fourth-quarter earnings are partly to blame as its full-year midpoint EPS guidance of $2.55 fell short of analyst estimates of $2.76. Cramer believes Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT)’s scale can prove advantageous in another arena:

“You know you gotta be powerful. Walmart is powerful. This is about scale. The companies that are dealing and making, dealing right now in the fluid situation, are ones that have scale and they can basically say, guys, look, you’re not gonna, we’re taking your profit margin. Because we don’t know what’s gonna happen so it’s gonna come out of your hide. And that’s what Walmart can do. . .I don’t know about the other guys. I feel bad for them. They’re at the mercy of this craziness.”