📊 Walmart Stock Price Dataset & Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

🏢 About Walmart

Walmart Inc. is a multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. It is one of the world's largest companies by revenue and a key player in the retail sector. Walmart's stock is actively traded on major stock exchanges, making it an interesting subject for financial analysis.

📌 Dataset Overview

This dataset contains historical stock price data for Walmart, sourced directly from Yahoo Finance using the yfinance Python API. The data covers daily stock prices and includes multiple key financial indicators.

📊 Features Included in the Dataset

• Date 📅 – The trading day recorded.
• Open Price 🟢 – Price at market open.
• High Price 🔼 – Highest price of the day.
• Low Price 🔽 – Lowest price of the day.
• Close Price 🔴 – Price at market close.
• Adjusted Close Price 📉 – Closing price adjusted for splits & dividends.
• Trading Volume 📈 – Total shares traded.
• Dividends 💰 – Cash payments to shareholders.
• Stock Splits 🔄 – Records stock split events.

🔍 Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Steps

This notebook performs an extensive EDA to uncover insights into Walmart's stock price trends, volatility, and overall behavior in the stock market. The following analysis steps are included:

1️⃣ Data Preprocessing & Cleaning

• Load data using Pandas
• Handle missing values (if any)
• Check data types and format them properly
• Convert date column into a datetime format

2️⃣ Descriptive Statistics & Summary

• Calculate key statistical measures like mean, median, standard deviation, and interquartile range (IQR)
• Identify stock price trends over time
• Check data distribution and skewness

3️⃣ Data Visualizations

• 📉 Line Plot – Analyze trends in closing prices over time.
• 📦 Box Plot – Detect potential outliers in stock prices.
• 📊 Histogram – Understand the distribution of closing prices.
• 📈 Moving Averages – Use short-term and long-term moving averages to observe stock trends.
• 🔥 Correlation Heatmap – Find relationships between stock market indicators.

4️⃣ Time Series Analysis

• Identify trends and seasonality in the stock price data.
• Calculate daily, weekly, and monthly returns.
• Use rolling windows to analyze moving averages and volatility.

5️⃣ Insights & Conclusions

• How volatile is Walmart’s stock over the given period?
• Does the stock exhibit strong uptrends or downtrends?
• Are there any strong correlations between features?
• What insights can be drawn for investors and traders?

🚀 Use Cases & Applications

This dataset and analysis can be useful for: - 📡 Stock Market Analysis – Evaluating Walmart’s stock price trends and volatility. - 🏦 Investment Research – Assisting traders and investors in making informed decisions. - 🎓 Educational Purposes – Teaching data science and financial analysis using real-world stock data. - 📊 Algorithmic Trading – Developing trading strategies based on historical stock price trends.

📥 Download the dataset and explore Walmart’s stock performance today! 🚀