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Costco Wholesale (COST)

(Real Time Quote from BATS)

$987.89 USD

987.89
809,432

+6.91 (0.70%)

Updated Aug 11, 2025 02:08 PM 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 D 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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Bottom 32% (166 out of 244)

Industry: Retail - Discount Stores

Zacks News

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Are Earnings Estimates Out of Sync with the Economy?

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Company News for Sep 26, 2022

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Is Trending Stock Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) a Buy Now?

Zacks.com users have recently been watching Costco (COST) quite a bit. Thus, it is worth knowing the facts that could determine the stock's prospects.

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Costco's (COST) Q4 Earnings Top, Comparable Sales Rise 13.7%

Costco (COST) registers a decent comparable sales performance in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. E-commerce comparable sales increase 7.1% in the quarter.

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Recession Fears Keep Markets Negative; FDX and COST Report

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Costco (COST) Beats Q4 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

Costco (COST) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 1.94% and 0.35%, respectively, for the quarter ended August 2022. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights Walmart, The Home Depot and Costco

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3 Blue-Chip Retail Stocks Investors Should Keep a Tab On

Industry stalwarts such as Walmart (WMT), Home Depot (HD) and Costco (COST) have withstood multiple market gyrations and delivered returns to investors.

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Costco (COST) Lined Up for Q4 Earnings: What's in Store?

Costco's (COST) fourth-quarter results are likely to reflect better price management, decent membership trends and the increasing penetration of the e-commerce business.

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FedEx, UPS, General Mills, Costco and Adobe are part of Zacks Earnings Preview

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Costco Wholesale Q4 Preview: Another EPS Beat Inbound?

Costco has an impressive earnings track record, exceeding the Zacks Consensus EPS Estimate in eight of its previous ten releases.

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Reading Q3 Earnings Tea Leaves After the FedEx Bombshell

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Costco (COST) Attracts Bargain Hunters Amid Tighter Budgets

A customer-centric approach, strategic pricing, merchandise initiatives and an emphasis on memberships help Costco (COST) post consistent sales growth.

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Costco (COST) Earnings Expected to Grow: Should You Buy?

Costco (COST) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.

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Zacks Earnings Trends Highlights: Oracle, Adobe, Costco and FedEx

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Costco (COST) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know

In the latest trading session, Costco (COST) closed at $508, marking a -0.45% move from the previous day.

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Q3 Earnings Season Gets Underway

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Is Most-Watched Stock Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Worth Betting on Now?

Recently, Zacks.com users have been paying close attention to Costco (COST). This makes it worthwhile to examine what the stock has in store.

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