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COST · NMS

Costco Wholesale Corporation

946.92USD-0.11%
Today's range942.53 – 951.29
52-week range844.06 – 1,096.50

Key numbers

Market value
$420.05B

What the whole company is worth on the stock market.

P/E ratio
45.7

Price ÷ last year's profit per share. Higher means investors pay more for each $1 of profit.

Forward P/E
37.9

The same ratio using next year's expected profit.

Beta
0.8700

How much the stock swings compared with the market: 1 moves like the market, 1.5 moves 50% more.

Dividend yield
0.62%

Yearly dividend as a share of the price.

What analysts say

39 analysts

Strong buy: 4Buy: 20Hold: 13Sell: 1Strong sell: 1
Average price target1,057.94 +11.72% vs today's price

Recent analyst actions

2026-10-09 · RBC CapitalSector Perform
2026-09-28 · Deutsche BankBuy
2026-09-28 · Argus ResearchBuy
2026-09-25 · Freedom BrokerBuy
2026-09-25 · Raymond JamesOutperform
2026-09-25 · Roth CapitalSell

Financial health

Piotroski F-Score
7/9

Nine checks of profitability, debt and efficiency. 7–9 strong, 4–6 average, 0–3 weak.

Altman Z-Score
9.05 · Safe zone

A bankruptcy-risk score. Above 3 is the safe zone, 1.8–3 grey, below 1.8 distress.

Profitability and debt

Revenue, last 12 months$303.15B
Revenue growth+11.1%
Gross margin12.8%
Operating margin3.8%
Net margin3.0%
Return on equity28.4%
Free cash flow$6.75B
Debt to equity28%
Current ratio1.06

Short-term assets ÷ short-term debts. Below 1 means more due within a year than on hand.

Fair value (DCF model)

A discounted-cash-flow model: what future cash flows are worth today. It is a model, not a promise.

Pessimistic
377.73
Base case
448.31
Optimistic
502.27
Margin of safety
-52.7%

Compared with similar companies

The company next to its sector peers.

CompanyPriceP/EP/BMarket value
WMTWalmart Inc.111.3540.89.9$900.42B
COSTCostco Wholesale Corporation946.9245.511.7$420.05B
KOCoca-Cola Company (The)88.0526.49.4$377.38B
PGProcter & Gamble Company (The)151.2321.86.3$350.15B
HDHome Depot, Inc. (The)290.7420.529.4$291.10B
PEPPepsico, Inc.125.9716.49.7$171.89B
MCDMcDonald's Corporation235.2319.115.3$167.77B
SBUXStarbucks Corporation90.7552.964.1$104.89B
TGTTarget Corporation153.6416.03.1$70.17B
NKENike, Inc.34.7116.84.6$51.84B
Sector average27.616.3

About the company

SectorConsumer Staples
IndustryDiscount Stores
Employees355,000
CountryUnited States

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, Sweden, Iceland, and New Zealand. It offers merchandise, including sundries, dry groceries, candies, coolers, freezers, liquor, and tobacco; non-food merchandise comprising consumer electronics, appliances, small electrics, health and beauty aids, hardware, lawn and garden, sporting goods, tires, toys and seasonal, automotive, stamps, tickets, apparel, furniture, domestics, housewares, special order kiosks, and jewelry; and fresh food, such as meat, produce, deli, and bakery products. The company is also involved in warehouse ancillary operations, which include gasoline, pharmacies, food courts, optical, hearing aids, and tire installation centers. In ad…

Data: Elcaro Core (Yahoo Finance, Binance, Treasury) · Information, not investment advice.