Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST): Price and Financial Metrics

COST POWR Grades

• COST scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 94.99% of US stocks.
• COST's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 52 weeks.
• COST's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 26.45% of US stocks).

COST Stock Summary

• COST has a higher market value than 98.96% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $210,851,577,324.
• Costco Wholesale Corp's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 97.31% of US listed stocks.
• Costco Wholesale Corp's stock had its IPO on July 9, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.23% of US equities in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Costco Wholesale Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be PEP, WFC, KO, MS, and CMCSA.
• Visit COST's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's 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 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 45.56%.
• The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 114.31%.
• The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at 35.03%.

COST's revenue has moved up $79,376,000,000 over the prior 70 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
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
2020-09-30	166,761	8,861	4,002
2020-06-30	160,876	6,912	3,710

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 C, ranking ahead of 74.25% of graded US stocks.
• COST's asset turnover comes in at 3.383 -- ranking 7th of 165 Retail stocks.
• ULTA, PAG, and CATO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with COST.

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