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Table of Contents
A Look at 2002 2
A Letter from Lee Scott
The Company We Keep 4
End-of-Year Store Count 5
We’re Merchants First 6
What’s in Store for
8
Our Global Community
United by Compassion
10
New SAM’S CLUB Format
12
Wal-Mart in the News
13
Financials
14
Financial
Highlights
Net
Sales
Earnings
Per
Share
Return On
Shareholders’
Equity
Return
On
Assets
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
$191.3
$165.0
$137.6
$118.0
$217.8
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
$1.41
$1.21
$.99
$.78
$1.49
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
8.7%
9.5%*
9.6%
8.5% 8.5%
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
22.0%
22.9%
22.4%
19.8% 20.1%
Directors
James W. Breyer
John T. Chambers
Thomas M. Coughlin
Stephen Friedman
Stanley C. Gault
David D. Glass
Roland Hernandez
Dawn G. Lepore
J. Paul Reason
Elizabeth A. Sanders
H. Lee Scott
Jack C. Shewmaker
Donald G. Soderquist
Jose Villarreal
John T. Walton
S. Robson Walton
*Calculated giving effect to the amount by which a lawsuit settlement exceeded established reserves.
If this settlement were not considered, the return would have been 9.8%.