Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) started the day on Wednesday, with a price decrease of -0.09% at $722.22, before settling in for the price of $722.90 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, COST posted a 52-week range of $466.15-$787.08.
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It was noted that the giant of the Consumer Defensive sector posted annual sales growth of 11.43% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 14.83%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 13.60%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $442.79 million, simultaneously with a float of $441.43 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $320.30 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $730.19, while the 200-day Moving Average is $634.06.
Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Discount Stores Industry. Costco Wholesale Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.47%, in contrast to 69.99% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Apr 17 ’24, this organization’s Senior EVP sold 785 shares at the rate of 722.86, making the entire transaction reach 567,443 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 10,000. Preceding that transaction, on Mar 11 ’24, Company’s Executive VP sold 2,500 for 714.86, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 1,787,150. This particular insider is now the holder of 62,895 in total.
Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) Earnings and Revenue Records
Costco Wholesale Corp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 13.60% and is forecasted to reach 17.43 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 9.95% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 14.83% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Costco Wholesale Corp (COST). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.43. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 11.95. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $47.25, and its Beta score is 0.77. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.29. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 51.65.
In the same vein, COST’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 15.28, a figure that is expected to reach 3.70 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 17.43 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Costco Wholesale Corp (COST)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST), its last 5-days Average volume was 1.6 million that shows plunge from its year to date volume of 2.04 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 72.12% While, its Average True Range was 12.02.
Raw Stochastic average of Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 64.11%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 51.85% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 11.05% that was lower than 21.37% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
