Symbotic Partners with Walmart, Achieves $22.5 Billion Contract Backlog
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Dec 28 2025
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Source: Yahoo Finance
- Significant Contract Backlog: Symbotic's contract backlog has reached $22.5 billion, approximately ten times its annual sales, primarily driven by its partnership with Walmart, ensuring revenue visibility for years ahead.
- Strong Revenue Growth: In fiscal year 2025, Symbotic reported a 26% revenue increase to nearly $2.3 billion, indicating robust demand for its automated warehousing solutions and an increase in market share.
- Cash Flow Turnaround: The company reported approximately $788 million in free cash flow in its recent fiscal year, marking a significant turnaround from a negative cash flow of $102.45 million in the previous year, indicating improving financial health.
- Market Expansion Potential: Through its GreenBox joint venture with SoftBank, Symbotic is transitioning to a service-based model offering automated warehousing, which could generate substantial recurring revenue streams in the future.
Analyst Views on SYM
Wall Street analysts forecast SYM stock price to fall over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for SYM is 52.50 USD with a low forecast of 35.00 USD and a high forecast of 83.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
7 Analyst Rating
2 Buy
4 Hold
1 Sell
Hold
Current: 73.230
Low
35.00
Averages
52.50
High
83.00
Current: 73.230
Low
35.00
Averages
52.50
High
83.00
About SYM
Symbotic Inc. is an automation technology company reimagining the supply chain with its end-to-end, artificial intelligence (AI) powered robotic and software platform. It develops, commercializes, and deploys end-to-end technology solutions that improve supply chain operations. It automates the processing of pallets and cases in large warehouses or distribution centers for some of the retail and wholesale companies in the world. The Symbotic platform is based on an approach to connecting producers of goods to end users in a way that resolves the mismatches of quantity, timing and location that arise between the two, while reducing costs. It utilizes fully autonomous robots, collectively controlled by its AI-enabled system software, to achieve at scale, real world supply chain improvements. It serves various industries: retail grocery, food wholesale, consumer packaged goods, retail general merchandise, footwear and apparel, and food and beverage.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
