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Walmart isn't the biggest company on earth by most means.

Last quarter, Walmart reported $31.8B profits on $123.4B earnings. For the similar quarter, Amazon reported $14.5B profits on $38.0B earnings. So Walmart dwarfed Amazon overall.

Amazon's fresh results are great, and it helps to close the gap between them, but they are still much smaller than Walmart.

Unless you're talking online-only, in which case the comparison switch around, and Amazon is already much bigger than Walmart. But Walmart's online sales are a small percent of their earnings.

It's the largest company by revenue [1] and employee count [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers?wp...

Revenue and number of employees

Headcount I believe.