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Costco Wholesale (COST)

(Delayed Data from NSDQ)

$980.98 USD

980.98
2,117,911

+3.53 (0.36%)

Updated Aug 8, 2025 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $982.24 +1.26 (0.13%) 7:58 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 35% (158 out of 244)

Industry: Retail - Discount Stores

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Costco's (COST) Earnings Beat Estimates in Q1, Increase Y/Y

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Costco (COST) Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates

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Buy Costco (COST) Stock Ahead of Q1 Earnings?

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Costco (COST) to Post Q1 Earnings: Comps to Play a Key Role

Costco's (COST) comps are likely to have aided its overall performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2020. The company recently posted comps and sales numbers for November and the first quarter.

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Here's Why Costco (COST) Q1 Earnings Are Likely to Improve

Costco's (COST) growth strategies, better price management, decent comparable sales performance and strong membership trends are likely to have fueled first-quarter top line.

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AutoZone, Oracle, Costco, Adobe Systems and JPMorgan are part of Zacks Earnings Preview

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Costco Sustains Decent Comparable Sales Run in November

Costco's (COST) better price management and strong membership trends have been playing a crucial role in driving comps. The metric improves 5.3% during the month of November.

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Beyond Meat Strikes Costco Deal: Should Investors Buy BYND Stock?

Beyond Meat (BYND) announced Thursday that its plant-based burger patties would appear in select Costco (COST) stores.

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Costco (COST) Reports Next Week: Wall Street Expects Earnings Growth

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