Wal-Mart quarterly profit advances 13.4% on holiday ads
21 Feb '06
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For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, the Wal-Mart Stores segment had segment operating income of $4.714 billion, an increase of 11.1 percent, compared with $4.242 billion in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005.
For the fiscal year ended January 31st 2006, the Wal-Mart Stores segment had segment operating income of $15.324 billion, an increase of 8.2 percent, as compared with segment operating income of $14.163 billion in fiscal 2005.
The SAM'S CLUB segment had segment operating income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 of $377 million, an increase of 6.2 percent, compared with $355 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005.
For fiscal 2006, the SAM'S CLUB segment had segment operating income of $1.385 billion, an increase of 8.2 percent, as compared with segment operating income of $1.280 billion in fiscal 2005.
The International segment had segment operating income of $1.116 billion for the most recent quarter, an increase of 14.1 percent, compared with $978 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005. It had segment operating income of $3.330 billion in fiscal 2006, an increase of 11.4 percent, compared with $2.988 billion for fiscal 2005.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc operates Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters, Neighborhood Markets and SAM'S CLUB locations in the United States. It operates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala,Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, South Korea and the United Kingdom.
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