Alice Walton Net Worth

Alice Walton has an estimated net worth of $128 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Alice Walton profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is up from $44.4 billion in 2019.

Alice Walton is known for her ties to the Walmart fortune and for building major arts and health projects in Bentonville, Arkansas. She is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. Unlike her siblings Rob and Jim, she did not serve on Walmart's board. Forbes places her wealth in Walmart and the Fashion & Retail industry. Much of her public work has centered on art collecting, museums, philanthropy, and medical education.

Her career included finance jobs at First Commerce Corporation, Arvest Bank Group, and EF Hutton before she founded Llama Company in 1988. She also chaired the Northwest Arkansas Council and helped develop the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, which opened in 1998. Walton began collecting art as a child and later turned that interest into Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened in 2011. In 2025, her new medical school welcomed its first class of 48 MD students.

How Alice Walton built her career

Walton's wealth comes from the Walmart family fortune, according to Forbes. Her own career took shape outside the retailer. After Trinity College in 1971, she briefly worked at Walmart as a buyer of children's clothes. She later worked as an equity analyst, money manager, and broker, then founded Llama Company in 1988. That investment bank gave her a central business role before it closed in 1998.

She became widely known through large civic and cultural projects. Walton was the first person to chair the Northwest Arkansas Council and played a key part in creating the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. She also turned a long interest in art into Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened in 2011 in Bentonville. Forbes says she has focused on curating art and philanthropy, and in 2025 she launched a new chapter with the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine.

Forbes wealth estimate over time

Forbes has tracked Walton's fortune closely over the years. On the World's Billionaires list, her estimated net worth was $44.4 billion in 2019. It later reached $56.7 billion in 2023, then rose to $72.3 billion in 2024. Forbes linked her wealth to Walmart, so those estimates reflect the value of her stake in that retail empire rather than income from operating a separate public company of her own.

The pace of change became even more striking after that. Forbes put Walton at $101 billion in 2025 and $134 billion on the 2026 World's Billionaires list. Forbes' real-time tracker later showed $128 billion as of October 20, 2026. While Walton is best known publicly for museums, foundations, and her medical school, the core source behind the estimate remains the Walmart fortune identified by Forbes.