Costco Wholesale Corporation
General ticker "COST" information:
- Sector: Consumer Staples
- Industry: Discount Stores
- Capitalization: $429.7B (TTM average)
Costco Wholesale Corporation does not follow the US Stock Market performance with the rate: -6.2%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 0.8%: low 949.14$, high 965.34$
Factors to consider:
- Company included in S&P500 list
- Company included in NASDAQ-100 index
- Company pays dividends (quarterly): last record date 2025-10-31, amount 1.30$ (Y0.54%)
- Total employees count: 333000 (+5.4%) as of 2024
- US accounted for 72.4% of revenue in the fiscal year ended 2024-09-01
- Top business risk factors: Dependence on US and canadian operations, Climate change and natural disasters, IT system failures, Pandemic risks, Market competition
- Price in estimated range
- Earnings for 3 months up through Q1 are close to our estimates
Stock Forecast*
* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions
Long term estimates were made for the period from 2025-08-31 to 2027-08-31
- 2025-08-31 to 2026-08-31 estimated range: [839.39$, 1121.55$]
- 2026-08-31 to 2027-08-31 estimated range: [884.50$, 1183.83$]
Financial Metrics affecting the COST estimates:
- Negative: with PPE of 53.4 at the end of fiscal year the price was very high
- Positive: -5.02 < Operating profit margin, % of 3.77
- Positive: 5.42 < Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 7.32
- Positive: Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 9.51 > 6.04
- Positive: 2.95 < Industry operating profit margin (median), % of 4.31
- Positive: 0.04 < Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 3.13
- Positive: Interest expense per share per price, % of 0.04 <= 0.74
- Positive: Industry inventory ratio change (median), % of 0.10 <= 0.28
- Negative: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -1.25 <= -0.62
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Financial data
| YTD | 2023-09-03 | 2024-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $242,290.00MM | $254,453.00MM | $275,235.00MM |
| Operating Expenses | $234,176.00MM | $245,168.00MM | $264,852.00MM |
| Operating Income | $8,114.00MM | $9,285.00MM | $10,383.00MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $373.00MM | $455.00MM | $435.00MM |
| Interest Expense | $160.00MM | $169.00MM | $154.00MM |
| Income(Loss) | $8,487.00MM | $9,740.00MM | $10,818.00MM |
| Taxes | $2,195.00MM | $2,373.00MM | $2,719.00MM |
| Profit(Loss)* | $6,292.00MM | $7,367.00MM | $8,099.00MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $25,058.00MM | $23,622.00MM | $29,164.00MM |
| Inventory | $16,651.00MM | $18,647.00MM | $18,116.00MM |
| Assets | $68,994.00MM | $69,831.00MM | $77,099.00MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $11,068.00MM | $11,339.00MM | $13,335.00MM |
| Capital expenditure | $4,323.00MM | $4,710.00MM | $5,498.00MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-4,972.00MM | $-4,409.00MM | $-5,311.00MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $-2,614.00MM | $-10,764.00MM | $-3,775.00MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $14.18 | $16.60 | $18.24 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.