Costco wholesale corporation

Department/Specialty-Retail-Stores

COST


999 Lake Drive
Issaquah , WA 98027

News

  • Burlington Stores Inc. gained 0.6% to $259.25 after the off-price apparel and accessories retailer reported sales growth in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2024.

    Revenue increased to $3.28 billion from $3.12 billion, net income jumped to $260.77 million from $227.46 million, and earnings per diluted share rose to $4.02 from $3.53 a year ago.

    Fourth-quarter comparable store sales grew 6% versus guidance of zero to 2%.

    The company guided for the first quarter of 2025 total sales growth between 5% and 7%, assuming flat comparable store sales, compared to $2.36 b More

    Mar 7, 2025

  • Costco Wholesale Corp. gained 2.1% to $1,042.9 after the wholesale retailer reported strong January 2025 sales.

    Net sales increased 9.2% to $19.51 billion from $17.87 billion a year ago.

    Comparable sales in January jumped 7.5%, and e-commerce sales climbed 13.6% from a year earlier.

    Excluding the changes in gasoline prices and foreign exchange, comparable sales increased 9.8%, and e-commerce sales jumped 15.2% year-over-year.

    Feb 6, 2025

Executive/
Director

Price

  • Last Close
  • $ 916.78
    $ +6.95 0.76 %
    Jan 3, 2025
  • 52-Week High/Low
  • $908.85 - $543.03
  • YTD
  • 0.1%

  • Trading Volume
  • 65,379
  • Market Cap Full
  • $ 406.8B
  • Shares Outstanding
  • 443.7M
    Dec 13, 2023
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Q1 -2.2% 5% 1.5% 18.9% -5% -6.5% 1.4% 8.8% 11% 0.1%
Q2 -0.1% -0.5% 14.7% 8.4% 4% 12.3% -16.8% 8.4% 18.2% -
Q3 -2.6% 3.1% 13.2% 9.4% 8% 13.6% -1.6% 4.9% 8% -
Q4 5.3% 12.5% -13% 2% 6.1% 26.3% -3.2% 15.5% -2.9% -
J F M A M J J A S O N D
2025 0.1% - - - - - - - - - - -
2024 5.3% 7.1% -1.5% -3.1% 14.1% 5.2% -3.6% 8% - - - -5.7%
    2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
    19%0%22%11%44%28%51%-20%45%39%0%

Earnings

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Q1 1.24 1.17 1.59 2.01 2.1 2.14 2.92 3.30
Q2 1.24 1.40 1.7 2.05 1.89 2.75 3.04 2.93
Q3 1.77 2.08 2.35 2.47 3.13 3.76 4.2 4.86
Q4 1.17 1.36 1.73 1.9 2.62 2.98 3.07 3.58
A 5.4 6 7.1 8.3 9 11.3 13.1 14.2

Annual Returns

52 Week
High/Low

Annual
Earnings

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Trading Volume

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2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Q1 0.65 0.70 0.79 0.90 15.00 1.16
Q2 0.70 0.79 0.90 1.02 1.02 -
Q3 0.70 0.79 0.90 1.02 1.16 -
Q4 0.70 0.79 0.90 1.02 1.16 -
A 2.75 3.07 3.49 3.96 18.34 1.16
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Mar - 438.8 439.9 441.6 442.5 443.2
Jun - 438.5 439.8 441.5 442.1 443
Sep - - - 441.2 441.8 442.6
Dec 439.1 440.5 441.8 443 443.4 443.7

Financial Ratios

20222021202020192018
Asset Management
Inventory / Stock Turnover 11.1 12 11.8 11.7 11.2
Fixed Asset Turnover 7.9 7.3 6.8 7 6.9
Total Asset Turnover 3.5 3.3 3 3.4 3.5
Leverage
Debt Ratio 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3
Debt – Equity Ratio 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.5
Interest Coverage 4 3.9 3.8 4.4 3.3
Equity multiplier 1.4 1.5 1.3 1.4 1.6