Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) kicked off on Tuesday, up 0.46% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $926.04. Over the past 52 weeks, COST has traded in a range of $697.27-$1078.23.
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Annual sales at Consumer Defensive sector company grew by 10.86% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 9.04%. With a float of $442.66 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $443.73 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 333000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 13.29%, operating margin of 3.69%, and the pretax margin is 3.83%.
Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) Insider Updates
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Discount Stores Industry. The insider ownership of Costco Wholesale Corp is 0.23%, while institutional ownership is 69.66%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 24 ’25, was worth 830,304. In this transaction Executive Vice President of this company sold 900 shares at a rate of $922.56, taking the stock ownership to the 6,987 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 24 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 900 for $922.56, making the entire transaction worth $830,304.
Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 5.85 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.04% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 10.08% during the next five years compared to 14.93% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Costco Wholesale Corp’s (COST) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.49. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.56. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 59.60.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 17.13, a number that is poised to hit 4.22 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 19.97 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Costco Wholesale Corp (COST)
Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) saw its 5-day average volume 2.22 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 2.18 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 70.30%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 22.99.
During the past 100 days, Costco Wholesale Corp’s (COST) raw stochastic average was set at 29.83%, which indicates a significant increase from 29.64% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 36.39% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 23.14% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $984.39, while its 200-day Moving Average is $916.65. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $934.20 in the near term. At $938.15, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $944.00. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $924.40, it is likely to go to the next support level at $918.55. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $914.60.
Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 412.74 billion has total of 443,683K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 254,453 M in contrast with the sum of 7,367 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 63,723 M and last quarter income was 1,788 M.
