Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) open the trading on Wednesday, with great promise as it jumped 1.93% to $982.86, before settling in for the price of $964.26 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, COST posted a 52-week range of $844.06-$1078.23.
In the past 5-years timespan, the Consumer Defensive sector firm’s annual sales growth was 15.09%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 15.09%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 11.26%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $443.92 million, simultaneously with a float of $443.01 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $436.26 billion.
Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Discount Stores industry. Costco Wholesale Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.19%, in contrast to 69.58% institutional ownership. Preceding that transaction, on Jan 16 ’26, Company’s Director sold 458 for 955.00, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 437,390. This particular insider is now the holder of 8,532 in total.
Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 4.87 per share during the current fiscal year.
Costco Wholesale Corp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 11.26% and is forecasted to reach 22.22 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 10.67% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 15.09% 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 0.53. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $52.65, and its Beta score is 0.98. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.56. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 48.46.
In the same vein, COST’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 18.67, a figure that is expected to reach 4.51 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 22.22 at the market close of one year from today.
