Wal-Mart Comp Store Sales Up 2.5% in January

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. reported net sales for the four-week and fifty-two week periods ending January 28, 2005, and January 30, 2004 as follows (dollars in billions):

                             4 Weeks Ended               52 Weeks Ended
                                           Percent                     Percent
                       1-28-2005 1-30-2004  Change 1-28-2005  1-30-2004 Change

     Wal-Mart Stores    $ 13.170  $ 11.892  10.7%  $ 191.059  $ 173.579  10.1%
     SAM's CLUB            2.511     2.476   1.4%     36.952     34.376   7.5%
     International         4.120     3.793   8.6%     56.803     48.071  18.2%
       Total Company    $ 19.801  $ 18.161   9.0%  $ 284.814  $ 256.026  11.2%

Comparable sales for the periods ending January 28, 2005 and January 30, 2004, were as follows:

                                 4 Weeks                   52 Weeks
                          This Year    Last Year    This Year    Last Year
     Wal-Mart Stores         3.2%         5.3%         2.8%         3.8%
     SAM's CLUB             -0.8%         7.9%         5.8%         5.1%
     Total U.S.              2.5%         5.7%         3.3%         4.0%

Tom Schoewe, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer said, “Our January results cap off a solid performance for the year — another year of profitable double-digit sales growth. That increase translates into more than $28 billion of incremental sales. I am so proud of what our Associates have accomplished.”

For the February four-week period, WMT is forecasting comparative sales for the U.S. to be up in the 2% to 4% range.