DBRS Rates $1 billion Wal-Mart Issue at AA

DBRS has today assigned a rating of AA with a Stable trend to the following two issues of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.:

-- $500 million 3.00% notes due February 3, 2014
-- $500 million 4.125% notes due February 1, 2019.

Proceeds from the note issues will be used for general corporate purposes.

Notes:
All figures are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

The applicable methodology is Rating Merchandisers, which can be found on the DBRS website under Methodologies.

This is a Corporate rating.