Costco Wholesale Corporation
Consumer Defensive · Discount Stores · Price, fundamentals, signals, and forward-looking context in one research view.
Consumer Defensive
$419B
62.0%
47.63
Current price
$943.20
-0.2% todayUpdated 4 min ago
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Open
$938.94
Previous close
$945.47
Day range
$937.11 – $953.73
Volume
N/A
47.6x P/E
Awaiting filing
62.0% yield
65/100 measured
Moderate liquidity
Recent price movement, key market context and the latest company information.
The latest saved price history for COST, with its range and direction at a glance.
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. It offers merchandise, including sundries, dry groceries, candies, coolers, freezers, deli, liquor, and tobacco; non-food merchandise comprising appliances, small electronics, 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, service deli, and bakery products. The company is also involved in warehouse ancillary operations, which include gasoline, pharmacies, optical, food courts, hearing-aid centers, and tire installation centers. In addition, it engages in e-commerce, business centers, travel, and other businesses. 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.
Investors usually follow COST for its dividend profile, valuation signal, sector position, and upcoming company events. The goal here is not just to show numbers, but to explain what they mean in plain English.
Whisone is bullish because fundamentals are solid at 75/100 while there is no strong bear warning from the current data. Whisone has high conviction here. The final read is being balanced by the weighted scores for fundamentals, technicals, insider flow, sentiment, event flow, and liquidity.
Whisone v2 splits the read into weighted parts so the score is not just one hidden number.
Fundamentals
Growth, margins, cash flow, and valuation.
Latest net profit
$8.84B
TTM (2026-06-26)
ROE
29.2%
Return on equity
ROA
8.7%
Return on assets
Debt / equity
0.25
Lower is usually safer.
P/B ratio
25.36
Useful for book value support.
Dividend yield
62.0%
Current income signal.
84/100
Direction
Range-bound
Main supports
Business quality and balance-sheet strength are supporting the outlook.
Recent price and fundamentals refreshes improve signal reliability.
What can go wrong
Execution risk and market swings can still delay the forecast playing out.
Fair value
$1,011.39
Analyst view
Buy
Analyst target
$1,077.31
Forecast refresh
Updated just now
Quality score
73
Growth score
50
These are the external analyst numbers and business outlook figures already synced into the company record.
No external analyst outlook is available for this company yet.
$1.16
2025-02-07
Payment: TBA | Qualification: 2025-02-07 | Yield at declaration: N/A
$1.16
2024-11-01
Payment: TBA | Qualification: 2024-11-01 | Yield at declaration: N/A
A plain-English reading of momentum, trend, volatility, range position, and trading participation.
RSI
N/A
Momentum data is not available yet.
Recent trend
Sideways
-0.9% across the latest saved price window.
Volatility
Moderate
Beta is 0.86. Price sensitivity is broadly around the market range.
52-week position
39% of range
Price is sitting around the middle of its 52-week range.
Volume confirmation
N/A
Comparable volume data is not available.
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Industry
Discount Stores
Employees
341000
Exchange
NMS
Ticker
COST