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NASDAQ: COST

Costco Wholesale Corporation

Consumer Defensive | Discount Stores

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EPS (TTM)$19.88

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) is a discount retailer. Figures from SEC EDGAR; updated 2026-10-19 00:39 UTC.

What Costco Wholesale Corporation does

Costco operates membership warehouse clubs in multiple countries including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Sweden, Iceland, and New Zealand, along with e-commerce sites in select markets. The company's business model focuses on offering low prices on a limited selection of branded and private-label products, achieving profitability through high sales volumes, rapid inventory turnover, and operational efficiencies including volume purchasing and efficient distribution.

Summarized from Costco Wholesale Corporation’s SEC filings · AI-generated analysis. Not investment advice. May contain errors. · Read the filing ↗

Key facts

Valuation
EPS (TTM)$19.88
Return on equity27.77%
Debt/equity0.17

Operating Metrics

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Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST) reported 1 operating metric for FY2026-Q4 in its SEC earnings exhibit filed 2026-09-24.

Most recent reported period: FY2026-Q4, filed 2026-09-24.

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Oxford Ledge Signal — extracted from the issuer’s own SEC earnings exhibit and normalized by Oxford Ledge; as reported by the issuer per regulatory convention, not re-audited by us. Source: SEC EDGAR ↗

Same-store sales+9.4% incl. gas prices & FX

Every figure in this table is a CHANGE the issuer reported for the period, not a level. Growth rates and levels never share a column or a table -- a change read as a level is a different number entirely.

Oxford Ledge Signal — extracted from the issuer’s own SEC earnings exhibit and normalized by Oxford Ledge; as reported by the issuer per regulatory convention, not re-audited by us. Source: SEC EDGAR ↗

Revenue, margins & earnings

FY2021 Net income: $5.01BFY2021 Operating costs: $189.2B$195.9BFY2021FY2022 Net income: $5.84BFY2022 Operating costs: $219.2B$227.0BFY2022FY2023 Net income: $6.29BFY2023 Operating costs: $234.2B$242.3BFY2023FY2024 Net income: $7.37BFY2024 Operating costs: $245.2B$254.5BFY2024FY2025 Net income: $8.10BFY2025 Taxes & interest: $2.28BFY2025 Operating costs: $264.9B$275.2BFY2025
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SEC Filings

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Recent Insider Activity (last 90 days)
Source: SEC EDGAR · Filed 2026-10-14
  • 2026-10-14Executive Vice PresidentSale-1,100$1.05M
  • 2026-09-30Executive Vice PresidentSale-2,200$2.02M
  • 2026-09-30Sr. Executive Vice PresidentSale-800$733.3K
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Questions this page answers

What does Costco Wholesale Corporation do?

Costco operates membership warehouse clubs in multiple countries including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Sweden, Iceland, and New Zealand, along with e-commerce sites in select markets.

When did COST last file with the SEC?

Costco Wholesale Corporation's most recent SEC filing on record is a 10-K filed 2026-10-07. All filings link to their SEC EDGAR originals above.

Where does this data come from?

SEC EDGAR filings, with the company profile (sector, industry, exchange) from public data providers, fetched 2026-10-19 00:39 UTC. This page is also available as JSON at /api/data?ticker=COST and is emitted with FAQPage structured data for machine reading.

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