Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST): Price and Financial Metrics

COST POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where COST ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 95.14% of US stocks.
• COST's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• COST ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 39th percentile.

COST Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $252,628,980,814, Costco Wholesale Corp has a greater market value than 99.27% of US stocks.
• Costco Wholesale Corp's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 97.28% of US listed stocks.
• COST's went public 35.75 years ago, making it older than 92.35% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Costco Wholesale Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be DIS, KO, PEP, NKE, and CMCSA.
• COST's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Costco Wholesale Corp's official web site, go to www.costco.com.

COST Valuation Summary

• COST's price/sales ratio is 1.1; this is 59.26% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• COST's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 17.1 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, COST's price/earnings ratio has gone up 18.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for COST.

COST Growth Metrics

Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 12.54%.
• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 59.84%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 51.8%.

COST's revenue has moved up $60,603,000,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows COST's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-03-31	210,219	9,932	5,513
2021-12-31	203,084	9,569	5,165
2021-09-30	195,929	8,958	5,007
2021-06-30	186,637	10,260	4,726
2021-03-31	178,626	8,825	4,344
2020-12-31	172,929	9,406	4,324

COST's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• COST has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 75.14% of graded US stocks.
• COST's asset turnover comes in at 3.383 -- ranking 7th of 165 Retail stocks.
• ULTA, CATO, and HVT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with COST.

The table below shows COST's key quality metrics over time.