NASDAQ:COST - Costco Wholesale Stock Price, Forecast & News

Costco Wholesale trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "COST."

Costco Wholesale announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 18th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.65 per share on Friday, November 15th. This represents a $2.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.85%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, October 31st. View Costco Wholesale's Dividend History.

Costco Wholesale declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program on Friday, April 26th 2019, which allows the company to buyback $4,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase up to 3.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Costco Wholesale Co. (NASDAQ:COST) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, December, 12th. The retailer reported $1.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.71 by $0.02. The retailer had revenue of $37.04 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $37.40 billion. Costco Wholesale had a net margin of 2.42% and a return on equity of 24.22%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 5.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.61 earnings per share. View Costco Wholesale's Earnings History.

Costco Wholesale is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Costco Wholesale.

Costco Wholesale will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, March 5th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

25 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Costco Wholesale's stock. Their forecasts range from $230.00 to $335.00. On average, they expect Costco Wholesale's share price to reach $301.81 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Costco Wholesale.

25 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Costco Wholesale in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Costco Wholesale.

Costco Wholesale same store sales climbed 9% in the month of December. Costco Wholesale stock fell by 1.2% in the first day of trading following the news.

News articles about COST stock have been trending extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Costco Wholesale earned a news impact score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the retailer a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Costco Wholesale.

Costco Wholesale saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,650,000 shares, an increase of 9.9% from the December 15th total of 5,140,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,930,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.9 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's stock are short sold. View Costco Wholesale's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Costco Wholesale include Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), Wal-mart de Mexico S A B de C V (WMMVY), Dollar General (DG), Tesco (TSCDY), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Five Below (FIVE), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), BJs Wholesale Club (BJ), PriceSmart (PSMT), Big Lots (BIG), Tuesday Morning (TUES) and Fred's (FRED).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Costco Wholesale investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Home Depot (HD), Visa (V), Netflix (NFLX), Boeing (BA), Starbucks (SBUX), Walmart (WMT) and AT&T (T).

Costco Wholesale's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.26%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (0.11%), Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC (0.05%), Huntington National Bank (0.05%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.04%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%). Company insiders that own Costco Wholesale stock include Daniel M Hines, Franz E Lazarus, James C Klauer, James P Murphy, John W Meisenbach, Joseph P Portera, Patrick J Callans, Paul G Moulton, Richard A Galanti, Richard M Libenson, Roland Michael Vachris, Russell D Miller, Susan L Decker, Timothy L Rose and W Craig Jelinek. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Costco Wholesale.

COST stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Calamos Advisors LLC, Boston Trust Walden Corp, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Birch Hill Investment Advisors LLC, DNB Asset Management AS, First National Bank of Omaha, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold Costco Wholesale company stock in the last year include Daniel M Hines, James C Klauer, James P Murphy, Joseph P Portera, Patrick J Callans, Paul G Moulton, Richard A Galanti, Richard M Libenson, Roland Michael Vachris, Russell D Miller and Susan L Decker. View Insider Buying and Selling for Costco Wholesale.

COST stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Clear Street Markets LLC, Professional Planning, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Peterson Wealth Management, UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp and AE Wealth Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Costco Wholesale.

Shares of COST can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of COST stock can currently be purchased for approximately $304.68.

Costco Wholesale has a market capitalization of $134.59 billion and generates $152.70 billion in revenue each year. The retailer earns $3.66 billion in net income (profit) each year or $8.19 on an earnings per share basis. Costco Wholesale employs 254,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Costco Wholesale.

The official website for Costco Wholesale is http://www.costco.com/.

Costco Wholesale's mailing address is 999 LAKE DRIVE, ISSAQUAH WA, 98027. The retailer can be reached via phone at 425-313-8100 or via email at [email protected]