Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, France, Iceland, China, and Taiwan.
Costco stock last closed at $1,071.85, down 0.47% from the previous day, and has increased 48.42% in one year. It has overperformed other stocks in the Discount Stores industry by 0.25 percentage points. Costco stock is currently +53.72% from its 52-week low of $697.27, and -0.59% from its 52-week high of $1,078.23.
At the moment, there are 443.9M COST shares outstanding. The market capitalization of COST is $475.79B. In the past 24 hours, 1.41M COST shares were traded.
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Out of 21 sell side analysts who track COST, the consensus analyst rating on Costco is a Buy
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Edward Kelly, a top 12% analyst from Wells Fargo maintains COST with a hold rating and raises their COST price target from $950.00 to $1,000.00, on Dec 13, 2024.
Oliver Chen, a bottom 4% analyst from TD Cowen maintains COST with a strong buy rating and raises their COST price target from $975.00 to $1,090.00, on Dec 13, 2024.
Scot Ciccarelli, a top 4% analyst from Truist Securities maintains COST with a hold rating and raises their COST price target from $909.00 to $935.00, on Dec 13, 2024.
Karen Short, a top 28% analyst from Barclays maintains COST with a hold rating and raises their COST price target from $850.00 to $940.00, on Dec 13, 2024.
Simeon Gutman, a bottom 2% analyst from Morgan Stanley maintains COST with a strong buy rating and raises their COST price target from $950.00 to $1,150.00, on Dec 13, 2024.
Morgan Stanley's Simeon Gutman raised their price target on Costco (NASDAQ: COST) by 21.1% from $950 to $1,150 on 2024/12/13. The analyst maintained their Strong Buy rating on the stock.
Costco reported its Q1 2025 earnings.
Gutman called the company's print "yet another quarter of accelerating fundamentals."
Factors that will "likely drive further momentum" through 2025, according to the analyst, include:
For Q1 2025, Costco reported:
Management did not provide financial guidance or commentary in its press release.
You can dig deeper into what analysts are projecting on the Costco stock forecast page.
Last year, COST earnings were $7.58B. Over the past five year, COST's earnings have grown by 15.02% per year. This was faster than the Discount Stores industry average of 10.14%.
Last year, COST revenue was $258.81B. In the past 5 year, COST's revenue has increased by 10.84% per year. This was faster than the Discount Stores industry average of 7.32%.
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Over the past year, executives and large shareholders at COST have sold more shares than they have bought.
Richard A. Galanti, Executive Vice President of COST, was the latest COST insider to sell. They sold $1,266,866.88 worth of COST shares on Oct 24, 2024.
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Costco pays a dividend of 0.54%, compared to the Discount Stores industry's average dividend yield of 1.8%. If you owned $1,000 worth of COST stock, you would have received $5.41 in the past year.
Costco dividend payments have not consistently grown over the past decade and have not remained stable.
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