Better Buy: Amazon vs. Walmart
Ten years ago, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) was valued at $55 billion. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) -- the undisputed king of retail at the time -- was almost four times that size. But the past decade has been characterized by the conversion to e-commerce, and Amazon has risen to become one of the most valuable companies in the world today.
But as investors, we're a forward-looking bunch. Which of these two stocks is the top stock to buy at today's prices? While we can never answer that question with certainty, we can compare the two companies on three key characteristics to see which we are more comfortable buying.
First, we'll investigate financial fortitude. This asks a simple question: If a financial crisis kicked off tomorrow, how would these companies be affected? We all know that both Walmart and Amazon can survive a crisis -- that's just what they did ten years ago.
Source Fool.com
