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Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)

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890.17 +4.10 (+0.46%)
At close: November 5 at 4:00 PM EST
897.08 +6.91 (+0.78%)
Pre-Market: 5:07 AM EST
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  • Previous Close 886.07
  • Open 888.00
  • Bid 888.84 x 100
  • Ask 932.40 x 100
  • Day's Range 886.80 - 895.58
  • 52 Week Range 562.01 - 923.83
  • Volume 1,619,887
  • Avg. Volume 1,729,650
  • Market Cap (intraday) 394.411B
  • Beta (5Y Monthly) 0.79
  • PE Ratio (TTM) 53.75
  • EPS (TTM) 16.56
  • Earnings Date Dec 12, 2024
  • Forward Dividend & Yield 4.64 (0.52%)
  • Ex-Dividend Date Nov 1, 2024
  • 1y Target Est 937.05

Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The company offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories. It offers merchandise, such as sundries, dry groceries, candies, coolers, freezers, deli, liquor, and tobacco; appliances, electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, lawn and garden, sporting goods, tires, toys and seasonal products, office supplies, automotive care products, postages, tickets, apparel, small appliances, furniture, domestics, housewares, special order kiosks, and jewelry; and meat, produce, service deli, and bakery products. The company also operates gasoline, pharmacies, optical, food courts, hearing-aid centers, and tire installation centers; and offers business delivery, travel, grocery, and various other services online. It also operates e-commerce websites. The company was formerly known as Costco Companies, Inc. and changed its name to Costco Wholesale Corporation in August 1999. Costco Wholesale Corporation was founded in 1976 and is based in Issaquah, Washington.

www.costco.com

333,000

Full Time Employees

September 01

Fiscal Year Ends

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Performance Overview: COST

Trailing total returns as of 11/5/2024, which may include dividends or other distributions. Benchmark is

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YTD Return

COST
35.65%
S&P 500
21.24%

1-Year Return

COST
63.26%
S&P 500
32.68%

3-Year Return

COST
80.14%
S&P 500
23.56%

5-Year Return

COST
226.32%
S&P 500
87.86%

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Valuation Measures

Annual
As of 11/5/2024
  • Market Cap

    394.41B

  • Enterprise Value

    391.54B

  • Trailing P/E

    53.75

  • Forward P/E

    49.75

  • PEG Ratio (5yr expected)

    5.51

  • Price/Sales (ttm)

    1.56

  • Price/Book (mrq)

    16.70

  • Enterprise Value/Revenue

    1.54

  • Enterprise Value/EBITDA

    32.24

Financial Highlights

Profitability and Income Statement

  • Profit Margin

    2.90%

  • Return on Assets (ttm)

    8.36%

  • Return on Equity (ttm)

    30.27%

  • Revenue (ttm)

    254.45B

  • Net Income Avi to Common (ttm)

    7.37B

  • Diluted EPS (ttm)

    16.56

Balance Sheet and Cash Flow

  • Total Cash (mrq)

    11.14B

  • Total Debt/Equity (mrq)

    42.12%

  • Levered Free Cash Flow (ttm)

    4.47B

Research Analysis: COST

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Earnings Per Share

Consensus EPS
 

Revenue vs. Earnings

Revenue 79.7B
Earnings 2.35B
Q4'23
Q1'24
Q2'24
Q3'24
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60B
 

Analyst Recommendations

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  • Sell
 

Analyst Price Targets

675.00 Low
937.05 Average
890.17 Current
1,065.00 High
 

Company Insights: COST

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  • The Argus Innovation Model Portfolio

    The United States economy is full of innovation. It has to be. Manufacturing industries that dominated the economy decades ago - textiles, televisions, even automobiles to a large degree - have moved overseas, where labor and materials costs are lower. Yet the U.S. economy, even during the pandemic and the current period of high inflation, has expanded to record levels. If U.S. corporations weren't innovating, creating new products (such as vaccines and AI) and services (such as Zoom calls) and moving into new markets, the domestic economy would not be growing, and capital would not be flooding into the country. The current high level of the U.S. dollar relative to currencies around the world attests to the confidence that global investors have in the durable and innovative U.S. economy.

     
  • Attractive Product Assortment and Resounding Scale Bode Well for Costco's Growth Prospects

    Costco operates a membership-based, no-frills retail model, predicated on offering a select product assortment in bulk quantities at bargain prices. The firm avoids maintaining costly product displays by keeping inventory on pallets and limits distribution expenses by storing its inventory at point of sale in the warehouse. Given Costco’s frugal cost structure, the firm is able to price its merchandise below competing retailers, driving high sales volume per warehouse and allowing the retailer to generate strong profits on thin margins. Costco operates over 600 warehouses in the United States and boasts over 60% market share in the domestic warehouse club industry. Internationally, Costco operates another 270 warehouses, primarily in markets such as Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the UK.

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  • Daily – Vickers Top Buyers & Sellers for 10/16/2024

    The Vickers Top Buyers & Sellers is a daily report that identifies the five companies the largest insider purchase transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions as well as the five companies the largest insider sales transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions.

     
  • Raising 3Q GDP Growth Forecast

    We are raising our third-quarter 2024 forecast for GDP growth to 3.0% from 1.6%. The most-significant changes to our model are increases in our estimates for the big services category and increases to investments in both equipment and intellectual property. We still expect 3Q core PCE inflation of 2.2%. Our research points to a U.S. economy that is healthy and growing. Recent positive surprises came from three sources: the Fed's 50-basis-point rate cut; the ISM Services Index, which helps in forecasting about 45% of GDP; and September nonfarm payrolls. GDP growth of 3% in 2Q, based on the final revision, also dispels any lingering recession fears. We are raising our 4Q24 GDP growth estimate to 2.3% from 1.7% and lifting our full-year 2024 GDP estimate to 2.5% from 1.9%. These forecasts do not include adjustments for hurricanes. We still expect 2% growth in 2025, with quarterly estimates of 1.3%, 2.0%, 2.3%, and 2.5%. Four indicators driven by broad and timely data support our assessment that the economy is growing at a healthy pace. On October 9, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's GDP Nowcast was estimating 3Q growth of 3.2%. On October 4, the New York Fed's Staff Nowcast for 3Q was for 3.1% growth, and the 4Q Nowcast was 2.8%. The Weekly Economic Index tracked by the Dallas Fed is based on 10 daily and weekly indicators of consumer behavior, the labor market, and production. If, for example, an index value of 2% persisted for an entire quarter, the index would suggest that quarter's GDP would be 2% higher than a year ago. For the week ended September 28, the index was 2.04%, with a 13-week moving average of 2.06%. The Chicago Fed National Activity Index looks at 85 indicators. It rose to 0.12 in August from -0.42 in July. The three-month moving average was little changed at -0.17. The Diffusion Index decreased to -0.23 in August from -0.11 in July. These readings suggest the economy is growing slightly below average, but not contracting.

     

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Overall Score

Evercore ISI Group 78/100
Latest Rating
Outperform
 

Direction Score

Tigress Financial 92/100
Latest Rating
Buy
 

Price Score

Goldman Sachs 100/100
Latest Rating
Buy
 

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