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Costco Wholesale (COST)

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$947.29 USD

947.29
928,537

-8.08 (-0.85%)

Updated Aug 5, 2025 11:20 AM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy23.75%
2Buy17.82%
3Hold9.58%
4Sell5.28%
5Strong Sell2.61%
S&P50011.30%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

  • Value Score A
  • Growth Score A
  • Momentum Score A
  • VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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D Value A Growth F Momentum C VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 33% (81 out of 246)

Industry: Retail - Discount Stores

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Zacks News

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      Costco (COST) Continues with Positive Comparable Sales Trend

      by Zacks Equity Research

      Costco (COST) has continued to post positive comparable-store sales (comps) so far this year.

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        Why Is Costco (COST) Down 5.7% Since the Last Earnings Report?

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            What's Aiding Costco (COST) to March Ahead of the Industry?

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              Shake Shack: The Surprise Loser From Winter Storm Stella?

              by Joseph Lu

              A blizzard is bringing more than a foot of snow to much of the Northeast on Tuesday, and while grocery chains like Wal-Mart (WMT) and Costco (COST) could benefit from the storm as people rush to stock up on supplies, restaurant chains will likely lose out on a day or two of business.

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                Costco Continues with its Positive Comparable Sales Trend

                by Zacks Equity Research

                After reporting flat comparable-store sales in August, Costco (COST) has continued to post positive comps so far.

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                    Here's Why Costco (COST) Stock Tumbled 4% Today

                    by Madeleine Johnson

                    On Friday, shares of wholesale retailer Costco (COST) closed the day down over 4% to $170.26 per share after the company reported disappointing second-quarter fiscal 2017 quarterly earnings.

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                      Costco (COST) Earnings and Revenues Miss Estimates in Q2

                      by Zacks Equity Research

                      Costco (COST) delivered second straight quarter of negative earnings surprise as it reported second-quarter fiscal 2017.

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                        Bartosiak: Trading Costco's (COST) Earnings with Options

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                        Join Dave Bartosiak at 1:00am Central Time today to see his thoughts on Costco (COST) before they report earnings with real-time options insight.

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                          Should You Sell Costco Wholesale (COST) Before Earnings?

                          by Zacks Equity Research

                          Costco Wholesale (COST) is seeing favorable earnings estimate revision activity and has a positive Zacks Earnings ESP heading into earnings season.

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                                        Shake Shack (SHAK) to Report Q4 Earnings: What's in Store?

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                                          3 Retail Stocks to "Trump" Estimates this Earnings Season

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                                            Kroger (KR) to Post Q4 Earnings: What's in Store this Time?

                                            by Zacks Equity Research

                                            Our proven model does not conclusively show that Kroger (KR) is likely to beat earnings estimates this quarter.

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                                              Costco (COST) Likely to Beat Q2 Earnings: Stock to Gain?

                                              by Zacks Equity Research

                                              Our proven model shows that Costco (COST) is likely to beat earnings estimates this quarter.

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                                                DineEquity (DIN) Q4 Earnings: Stock Likely to Disappoint?

                                                by Zacks Equity Research

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