Who owns Sam's Club?
Sam's Club is owned by Walmart (the United States, NYSE: WMT).[1]
Evidence: Walmart Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-13, SEC EDGAR, 13 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Walmart Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Bentonville, Arkansas
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Midwest City, Oklahoma
- Founded
- 1983
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Retailer own brands › General merchandise own brands
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: WMT
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Sam's Club
Sam's Club is Walmart's membership warehouse chain, named after founder Sam Walton and opened in 1983 to compete with Costco. Its Member's Mark own brand plays the same role there that Kirkland Signature plays for its rival. Membership warehouses work by limiting choice: a single option per category in bulk, which cuts handling costs enough to fund the low prices that justify the annual fee.
What Walmart's annual report says about Sam's Club
Sentences about Sam's Club from Walmart's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In 1983, we opened our first Sam's Club, and in 1988, we opened our first supercenter.
Sam's Club U.S. Segment Sam's Club U.S. is a membership-only warehouse club that operates 601 clubs in 44 states in the U.S. and Puerto Rico and also operates samsclub.com and the Sam's Club mobile application.
Sam's Club U.S. had net sales of $93.0 billion for fiscal 2026, representing 13% of our consolidated fiscal 2026 net sales, and had net sales of $90.2 billion and $86.2 billion for fiscal 2025 and 2024, respectively.
How often Walmart names Sam's Club in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Sam's Club
Where Sam's Club sits in Walmart
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Walmart
Walmart controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
- bettergoods (2024)
- Equate (1993)
- Great Value (1993)
- Member's Mark (1998)
- onn. (2018)
Other brands in general merchandise own brands, and who owns them
The 162 brands in general merchandise own brands on Brandtree belong to 68 owners. The largest is JD Sports, with 15; Walmart has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Blacks | JD Sports | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Bebemundo | Corporación Favorita | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
| Innom | Reitan Retail | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| B&Q | Kingfisher | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Anko | Wesfarmers | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Basualdo | Cencosud | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Bike Republic | Colruyt Group | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Glans | Hagar | 🇮🇸 Iceland |
Every brand in general merchandise own brands and its owner →
About the owner: Walmart
Walmart is a publicly listed company headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, United States, founded in 1962. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: WMT.
Walmart is the largest company in the world by revenue and the largest private employer in the United States. Founded in Arkansas in 1962, it built its position on distribution efficiency and scale buying, and the Walton family still holds close to half the shares.
🇺🇸 Sam's Club and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,550 brands that began in the United States. 479 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Sam's Club is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Sam's Club?
The parent company of Sam's Club is Walmart, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Sam's Club American?
Yes. Sam's Club originated in the United States in 1983 and its owner, Walmart, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Sam's Club still owned by Walmart?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Sam's Club is still owned by Walmart. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Walmart Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-13 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 13 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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