date:Feb 22, 2013
ure of a retailer's health, to be unchanged from a year ago. The pace has slowed in recent quarters, and some analysts believe the forecast could be too optimistic.
For the year, Wal-Mart expects earnings of between $5.20 and $5.40 per share, while analysts expect $5.38 per share.
Despite the subdued forecast, investors were bracing for a weaker report after Bloomberg published a story Friday that leaked an email from an executive characterizing the first two weeks of February as a total disas