Walmart results expected to highlight big plans for AI

The results cover the crucial fourth quarter comprising the holiday shopping season and will be the first with Chief Executive John Furner, who ascended to the top post on February 1 after previously leading the company's giant US division. Solid earnings from the big-box chain in recent quarters have underscored growing popularity with wealthier US consumers, as well as with less prosperous consumers in its home market, where some 90 percent of the population lives within 10 miles of a company location.