COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW
At today's price, COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW (COST) is priced for +30.1% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- Costco is the membership-warehouse model in its purest form: it sells goods near cost and earns its profit on the annual fee. Q3 2026 net sales rose 11.6% to $69.2B, comparable sales were up 9.8% (6.6% ex gas and FX), and membership fee income grew 10.7% to $1.37B with 41.2 million executive members. - The price sits above almost every valuation lens. At $951.81 (as of June 27, 2026) only the forward-growth and exit-multiple methods reach it; the asset, earnings-power, and peer-multiple famili
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4,146 institutional managers reported holding COST in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 69% of the company; the top 10 hold 34%. 239 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 7.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (3.6 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
COST's share count is about flat over the past five years ($3.45B of repurchases, offset by issuance). It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting); the current rate is $4.92 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $12.83B in dividends and $2.44B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at COST over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 25 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
COST's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-02 | +5.1% | +7.7% |
| 2023-10-12 | +0.9% | +11.9% |
| 2023-12-21 | +2.6% | +10.4% |
| 2024-03-14 | -6.2% | +8.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
COST's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-08 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-15 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-03-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-21 (items 5.07, 8.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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