Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) stock closed at 565.04 per share at the end of the most recent trading day (a -1.1% change compared to the prior day closing price) with a volume of 1.96M shares and market capitalization of 253.39B. Is a component of S&P 500, NASDAQ 100, Russell 1000 indices and it is traded on NASDAQ exchange. The company belongs in the Retail - Defensive industry, Consumer Defensive sector and employs 288000 people. Costco Wholesale Corporation CEO is W. Craig Jelinek.

The one-year performance of Costco Wholesale Corporation stock is 16.23%, while year-to-date (YTD) performance is 23.78%. COST stock has a five-year performance of 143.89%. Its 52-week range is between 447.9 and 576.1948, which gives COST stock a 52-week price range ratio of 96.57%

Costco Wholesale Corporation currently has a PE ratio of 21.80, a price-to-book (PB) ratio of 9.98, a price-to-sale (PS) ratio of 0.55, a price to cashflow ratio of 31.80, a PEG ratio of 2.48, a ROA of 9.41%, a ROC of 20.03% and a ROE of 30.60%. The company’s profit margin is 2.59%, its EBITDA margin is 4.30%, and its revenue ttm is $385.89 Billion , which makes it $869.66 revenue per share.

Of the last four earnings reports from Costco Wholesale Corporation, there were 3 positive earnings surprise and 1 negative earnings surprise. The company has EPS estimate of $4.72 for the next earnings report. Costco Wholesale Corporation’s next earnings report date is -.

The consensus rating of Wall Street analysts for Costco Wholesale Corporation is Moderate Buy (1.56), with a target price of $555, which is -2.94% compared to the current price. The earnings rating for Costco Wholesale Corporation stock is Strong Buy (calculated from actual period earnings estimates revision (80% weight) and previous period earnings surprise (20% weight)).

Costco Wholesale Corporation has a dividend yield of 0.75% with a dividend per share of $3.60 and a payout ratio of 27.00%.

Costco Wholesale Corporation has a Buy technical analysis rating based on Technical Indicators (ADX : 14.04, ATR14 : 8.95, CCI20 : 117.62, Chaikin Money Flow : 0.10, MACD : 4.30, Money Flow Index : 56.41, ROC : 1.56, RSI : 55.96, STOCH (14,3) : 64.55, STOCH RSI : 0.54, UO : 52.93, Williams %R : -35.45), Simple Moving Averages and Exponential Moving Averages.

Aggregated Insider Trades of Costco Wholesale Corporation in the last 12-months were: Caton Frates (Sold 600 shares of value $298 408 ), Claudine Adamo (Sold 2 000 shares of value $991 947 ), Decker Susan (Sold 1 565 shares of value $834 145 ), Galanti Richard (Sold 3 568 shares of value $1 782 551 ), James C. Klauer (Sold 2 500 shares of value $1 259 225 ), Richard A. Galanti (Sold 5 568 shares of value $2 658 222 ), Roland Michael Vachris (Sold 8 200 shares of value $3 905 587 ), Russell D Miller (Sold 3 500 shares of value $1 700 586 ), Russell D. Miller (Sold 1 500 shares of value $733 425 ), Susan L. Decker (Sold 952 shares of value $459 816 )