Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) kicked off on Friday, down -0.31% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $953.91. Over the past 52 weeks, COST has traded in a range of $793.00-$1078.23.
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A company in the Consumer Defensive sector has jumped its sales by 14.93% annually for the last half of the decade. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 9.22%. With a float of $442.62 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $443.52 million.
In an organization with 333000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 13.38%, operating margin of 3.75%, and the pretax margin is 3.88%.
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 0.19%, while institutional ownership is 69.64%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 14 ’25, was worth 3,899,852. In this transaction Executive Vice President of this company sold 4,000 shares at a rate of $974.96, taking the stock ownership to the 5,774 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 14 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 4,000 for $974.96, making the entire transaction worth $3,899,850.
Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.22% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 10.30% 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 0.52. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.57. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 57.64.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 17.63, a number that is poised to hit 5.82 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 20.06 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Costco Wholesale Corp (COST)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 2.18 million. That was inferior than the volume of 2.23 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 7.69%.
During the past 100 days, Costco Wholesale Corp’s (COST) raw stochastic average was set at 40.56%, which indicates a significant increase from 6.97% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 13.80 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 21.98 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $999.82, while its 200-day Moving Average is $965.27. However, in the short run, Costco Wholesale Corp’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $957.59. Second resistance stands at $964.23. The third major resistance level sits at $968.20. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $946.98, it is likely to go to the next support level at $943.01. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $936.37.
Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 421.72 billion has total of 443,477K 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 63,205 M and last quarter income was 1,903 M.
