Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Dividends

Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)

Today's Latest Price: $301.50 USD

0.90 (-0.30%)

Updated Oct 18 8:35am

Trade Grade Buy & Hold Grade Peer Grade Industry Rank

Over the past 6 years of historical data, COST has returned more capital to shareholders through its dividend issuances than 95% of other dividend-paying US stocks.
COST reports a compound annual dividend growth rate of -0.19% over the past 5.75 years.
In terms of debt burden relative to earnings, COST has an EBITDA to net debt ratio of 6,362,000,000, ranking above 98.81% stocks in our set (note that its net debt is negative, meaning it has more cash than debt).
If you want to include this stock in your dividend portfolio, here are some dividend stocks that are NOT correlated with COST that may be suitable potential portfolio mates: BPR, ARGO, UAA, NYT and TRTX.

COST Ex-Dividend Date 2019 August 29

COST Dividend Yield

0.86%

COST Annual Dividend

$2.60

COST Payout Ratio

Ex-Dividend Date	Type	Payout Amount	Change
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COST's dividend yield currently ranks #11 of 23 vs. its peers in the Grocery/Big Box Retailers category.

Rank	Symbol	Name	Dividend Yield
1	BIG	Big Lots, Inc.	5.64%
2	VLGEA	Village Super Market, Inc. -	3.91%
3	WMK	Weis Markets, Inc.	3.40%
4	KR	Kroger Company (The)	2.62%
5	TGT	Target Corporation	2.33%
6	CNCO	Cencosud S.A. American Depositary Shares (Each representing three )	1.88%
7	WMT	Walmart Inc.	1.77%
8	WFM	Whole Foods Market, Inc.	1.72%
9	IMKTA	Ingles Markets, Incorporated -	1.69%
10	PSMT	PriceSmart, Inc.	1.04%
11	COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	0.86%
12	DG	Dollar General Corporation	0.79%
13	CASY	Caseys General Stores, Inc.	0.78%
14	CBD	Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao ADS	0.60%
15	CST	CST Brands, Inc.	0.13%
16	SFM	Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.	0.00%
17	SFS	Smart & Final Stores, Inc.	0.00%
18	GO	Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.	0.00%
19	BJ	BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.	0.00%
20	SVU	SuperValu Inc.	0.00%
21	DLTR	Dollar Tree, Inc.	0.00%
22	NGVC	Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.	0.00%
23	FRED	Fred's, Inc.	0.00%