Walmart's press release moved WMT -0.03%

WMT moved -0.04% in five minutes and -0.03% by market close — about 0.5× Walmart's median close-day move.

· PR Web · Press release · Realized reaction, point-in-time, zero look-ahead.

Source headline

Studio Distribution Services Announces Two Direct Distribution Partnerships With Toho International & The Lumistella Company To Release Physical Media Products At Retail

Via PR Web

The quantified answer

How WMT reacted after the announcement.

-0.04%
5-min
First measured reaction, five minutes after the news
-0.03%
To close
Where the stock settled by the closing bell
0.5×
Magnitude
WMT's median close-day move (-0.05%) — versus its typical close-day move
WMT reaction to this newsWMT reaction to this news across 9 horizons: 30 sec +0.00%, 1 min -0.01%, 5 min -0.04%, 10 min -0.04%, 30 min -0.01% (median +0.01%), 60 min -0.10%, 90 min -0.15%, 120 min -0.23%, to close -0.03% (median -0.05%).30 sec1 min5 min10 min30 min60 min90 min120 minto close30 sec: +0.00%1 min: -0.01%5 min: -0.04%10 min: -0.04%30 min: -0.01% · median +0.01%60 min: -0.10%90 min: -0.15%120 min: -0.23%to close: -0.03% · median -0.05%+0.00%-0.01%-0.04%-0.04%-0.01%-0.10%-0.15%-0.23%-0.03%-0.23%0+0.01%
▏ median WMT reaction at the same horizon
WMT realized reaction to this news, by horizon. A dash is a horizon the tape did not measure — never a zero.
HorizonReactionWMT median
30 sec+0.00%—
1 min-0.01%—
5 min-0.04%—
10 min-0.04%—
30 min-0.01%+0.01%
60 min-0.10%—
90 min-0.15%—
120 min-0.23%—
to close-0.03%-0.05%
How fast it got thereFrom the price at the news · 120-minute window
+1%
never traded
+2%
never traded
+3%
never traded
+5%
never traded
-1%
never traded
-2%
never traded
-3%
never traded
-5%
never traded

A hatched rung is a threshold the price never touched inside the measured window — not a missing measurement. Most news never moves a large-cap by 5% either way, so a mostly empty ladder is the finding, not a gap in the data.

What it was worth if you heldPoint-in-time return from the news · not cumulative
Held forReturn
D+1-0.03%
D+2+0.88%
D+3-0.95%
D+4-1.13%
D+5+0.07%
1M+3.20%
3M+11.97%
6M+8.43%
12M+27.05%

Each row is measured from the price at the news to that horizon independently, so the ladder is not cumulative and a later row can sit above an earlier one. “Available” is a date, not a gap: that horizon has not elapsed yet for this event, and it is computed from the event’s own timestamp rather than from the data. An em dash is the other case — the horizon passed and no return was recorded.

Five minutes after the news, WMT had moved -0.04%; by the close it stood at -0.03% — the two readings agree in direction.

Impact: Neutral. Reaction = percent move vs. the price at the news timestamp. Sources below.

Which window

WMT’s news landed in the main session, which closed -0.03%.

When it landed
  1. Mainprior session
  2. After-hours4:00 – 8:00 PM
  3. Overnightno tape
  4. Pre-market4:00 – 9:30 AM
  5. Main session9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Segment widths are fixed, so two events on different days sit in comparable places. Hatched segments are real elapsed time with no tape to measure — the overnight halt is not a gap in the data. This event carries no intraday receipt time, so it is not pinned to a minute.

Which window the move landed in2 of 4 windows measured
WindowWhat it answersAnchor priceResultvs S&P 500
AllFrom the news to the first main-session close, across every session in between.80.69same anchor as the main session-0.02%—
After-hoursThe move between the closing bell and the overnight halt.—not measured—
Pre-marketThe move between the pre-market open and the opening bell.—not measured—
MainThe move inside the regular session, from the news to the close.80.69the price at the news-0.03%-0.12%

The main-session result is measured upstream against the price at the news; the all-sessions result is computed here from its own anchor and close, so the two can differ in the last decimal. The adjusted column subtracts the S&P 500’s move over the same main-session span — there is no index anchor for the all-sessions span, so that cell stays empty rather than borrowing this one. After-hours and pre-market are measured upstream but populate on a small minority of events, so this page does not request them. Those rows are unmeasured, not empty.

What happened

Where this WMT event came from, and what the tape did with it.

Walmart issued a press release, carried via PR Web, on Sep 24, 2024. It was the only Walmart headline News Quantified labeled that day.

Against the price at the news timestamp, WMT moved -0.04% after five minutes and -0.03% by the close — about 0.5× Walmart's median close-day move of -0.05% across 2,000+ events.

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Context

How this compares to WMT’s usual reaction.

Across 2,000+ labeled events, WMT’s median 30-minute reaction to all news is +0.01% (52% up); by the close it is -0.05%.

Where this WMT event landedvs 2,000+ measured WMT reactions
WMTMiddle 50% · -0.40% to +0.33%Zero: 0.00%Median: +0.01%This event: -0.01%This event -0.01%-0.50%0+0.50%
Middle 50% of WMT reactions-0.40% to +0.33%
Median reaction (30-min)+0.01%
This event-0.01%
Measured reactions2,000+
Point-in-time · zero look-ahead

Half of all Walmart news events land between -0.40% and +0.33% at 30 minutes; this one is a single draw from that distribution.

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The record

WMT’s session ranged -0.26% to +0.11% against the price at the news.

Relative volume
0.7×

10.4M shares against a 30-day average of 14.1M.

Volume-weighted average price
80.65+0.02% at the close

What the average share actually traded at across the session, rather than at any one print.

The session’s range, against the price at the news
Session high
80.78
+0.11% from the news price
Session low
80.48
-0.26% from the news price
High and low across the whole main session — not only the part after the news

The close moved -0.03% against a 20-day average true range of 1.31. WMT carries no market-cap or price-to-earnings figure on this record, and no short interest, so none is shown.

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Similar WMT events

How comparable WMT events have landed.

Across 5 other recent Walmart press release events, the median close-day reaction was -1.41%. Each is measured the same way, from its own news timestamp.

Go deeper

8 more WMT events, each measured the same way.

Recent WMT events, each with its measured reaction8
That same day, across the market8
Peer tickers, measured the same way4
Method

How the numbers are made.

How was WMT's -0.04% reaction measured?

From the news timestamp, not the trading day: News Quantified takes the last trade before this press release as the base price and measures the move five minutes of trading later — point-in-time, zero look-ahead. The same clock produced the -0.03% to-close figure.

What is Walmart's median reaction, and how does this event compare?

Walmart's median is drawn from 2,000+ labeled events; at 30 minutes it sits at +0.01%, and -0.05% by the close. This event's move is one draw from that distribution — ordinary or outlier, the chart's median ticks show which.

Only one Walmart headline was labeled Sep 24, 2024. How is it isolated?

It was the only Walmart headline labeled that day, so its window has no same-day overlap — the move is measured cleanly from its own timestamp.

Does -0.03% predict Walmart's next reaction?

No. -0.03% is a realized fact about Sep 24, 2024, not a forecast. Past reactions describe a distribution; they say nothing certain about any future move.

Cite this data

How to cite this reaction.

News Quantified. "Studio Distribution Services Announces Two Direct Distribution Partnerships With Toho International & The Lumistella Company To Release Physical Media Products At Retail." WMT realized price reaction, Sep 24, 2024. Retrieved from https://newsquantified.com/tickers/wmt/news/studio-distribution-services-announces-two-direct-2024-09-24

Canonical URL: https://newsquantified.com/tickers/wmt/news/studio-distribution-services-announces-two-direct-2024-09-24

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