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Costco Wholesale (COST)

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$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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3 of the Best Stocks to Buy for Attractive Earnings Growth

Costco Wholesale (COST), Adobe (ADBE) & Primerica (PRI) flaunt superb earnings growth at present.

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Costco's (COST) Q4 Earnings Beat, E-commerce Sales Up Y/Y

Costco (COST) registers a decent comparable sales performance in fourth-quarter fiscal 2021. E-commerce comparable sales increase 11.2% for the quarter.

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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Danaher Corp and Costco

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5 Stocks to Buy on a Thriving Online Grocery Market

Online grocery purchase have been gaining traction since the onset of the pandemic, which is helping stocks like Celsius Holdings (CELH), J & J Snack Foods (JJSF) and SunOpta (STKL).

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Nike, Costco Report Better Earnings than Expected

Both Nike and Costco beat bottom-line estimates in their subsequent quarters, but struggled to match on the top-line.

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Costco (COST) Surpasses Q4 Earnings Estimates

Costco (COST) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 9.86% and -0.22%, respectively, for the quarter ended August 2021. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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Albertsons (ACI) & Firework to Launch Short Video Content

Albertsons (ACI) collaborates with Firework to develop shoppable, short-form videos and livestream content for its website.

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Dillard's (DDS) Hits 52-Week High, Can the Run Continue?

Dillard's (DDS) is at a 52-week high, but can investors hope for more gains in the future? We take a look at the company's fundamentals for clues.

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AutoZone (AZO) Hits Fresh High: Is There Still Room to Run?

AutoZone (AZO) is at a 52-week high, but can investors hope for more gains in the future? We take a look at the company's fundamentals for clues.

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Fed Gives Bond-Buy Tapering Signal Without Timeline: 5 Picks

We have narrowed down our search to five U.S. corporate behemoths that have strong growth potential for the rest of 2021. These are: AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, DHR and COST.

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Is Costco Wholesale (COST) Stock Outpacing Its Retail-Wholesale Peers This Year?

Is (COST) Outperforming Other Retail-Wholesale Stocks This Year?

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Walmart's (WMT) Built for Better Amps Up Sustainability Strategy

Walmart (WMT) launches Built for Better, a digital shopping destination, to help customers shop for sustainable products. The platform is available on Walmart.com and the Walmart app.

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Snap Up These 5 Retail Stocks Ahead of Big Holiday Season Sales

Retailers - be it Macy's (M), Signet (SIG), Tapestry (TPR), Best Buy (BBY) or Costco (COST) - are looking for an early start to the festive season and ensuring they stock enough to meet consumer demand.

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Tractor Supply (TSCO) Growth Plans on Track, Stock Up 46% YTD

Strength in product offerings, store-growth endeavors and other strategies like ONETractor plans continue to aid Tractor Supply (TSCO) for quite some time.

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E-commerce Strength to Fuel Costco's (COST) Q4 Earnings

Costco's (COST) fourth-quarter fiscal 2021 numbers are likely to reflect decent e-commerce sales owing to consumers' rising shift to online shopping amid the coronavirus crisis.

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GameStop (GME) to Hire 500 Staff to Enhance Customer Service

To bolster e-commerce operations, GameStop (GME) announces plans to hire up to 500 employees at its new customer service center in Florida.

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Should You Buy Costco (COST) Ahead of Earnings?

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

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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Foot Locker, Macy's, Tapestry, Costco Wholesale and Capri Holdings

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Casey's (CASY) Digital Efforts Augur Well for Customer Wins

Casey's (CASY) efforts to boost online and delivery capabilities are enriching customer experience and expanding its sales.

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5 Must-Buy Stocks on Rebound in U.S. Retail Sales in August

Shrugging off challenges, Foot Locker (FL), Macy's (M), Tapestry (TPR), Costco (COST) and Capri Holdings (CPRI) look well-poised to tap favorable consumer demand.

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Costco (COST) Q4 Earnings in Focus: Key Factors to Watch

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

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Rite Aid (RAD) to Report Q2 Earnings: What Should You Know?

Rite Aid (RAD) is likely to have gained from PBM, RxEvolution strategy and expanded omnichannel services in Q2. Rising wage costs and drab front-end same-store sales are likely to have been concerns.

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What's in the Offing for BlackBerry (BB) in Q2 Earnings?

BlackBerry's (BB) second-quarter fiscal 2022 performance is expected to have benefited from back-to-back technological collaborations coupled with continued progress in the Spark and QNX businesses.

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Retail Sales Jump in August: 5 Solid Stocks to Buy

Rising fears over the pandemic once again saw people relying more on e-commerce in August, driving stocks like COST, TJX, CPRI, FL and GCO.

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Oracle, FedEx, Nike, Costco and JPMorgan are part of Zacks Earnings Preview

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