Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About Costco Wholesale Corporation
Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. It offers merchandise, including sundries, dry groceries, candies, coolers, freezers, deli, liquor, and tobacco; non-food merchandise comprising appliances, small electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, lawn and garden, sporting goods, tires, toys and seasonal, automotive, stamps, tickets, apparel, furniture, domestics, housewares, special order kiosks, and jewelry; and fresh food, such as meat, produce, service deli, and bakery products. The company is also involved in warehouse ancillary operations, which include gasoline, pharmacies, optical, food courts, hearing-aid centers, and tire installation centers. In addition, it engages in e-commerce, business centers, travel, and other businesses. The company was formerly known as Costco Companies, Inc. and changed its name to Costco Wholesale Corporation in August 1999. Costco Wholesale Corporation was founded in 1976 and is based in Issaquah, Washington.
Sector: Consumer Defensive · Industry: Discount Stores · United States · 341,000 employees · costco.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) had a market capitalization of $406.11B, a trailing P/E of 46.5 (forward 40.5), a dividend yield of 0.64% and a beta of 0.85; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $844.06 – $1096.50 (-4.8% over the year).
- Market cap
- $406.11B
- Enterprise value
- $404.48B
- Trailing P/E
- 46.5
- Forward P/E
- 40.5
- PEG ratio
- 4.49
- Price / book
- 24.57
- EPS (trailing)
- $19.69
- EPS (forward)
- $22.63
- Dividend yield
- 0.64%
- Payout ratio
- 27.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-07-24
- 52-week range
- $844.06 – $1096.50
- 52-week change
- -4.8%
- Beta
- 0.85
- Average volume
- 2.2M
- Shares outstanding
- 443.5M
- Short % of float
- 1.66%
- Profit margin
- 3.0%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) last closed at $902.38 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 34 (neutral territory), price -4.1% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -0.1%, MACD histogram -5.28.
Sentiment inputs: 79% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 93% bullish; Reddit mentions -50% over 24 hours; analyst consensus score 66/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 13 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 2 buys and 1 sell of COST; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 0 sells (3 distinct filers, latest disclosure 2026-08-14). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Richard McCormick (0B/1S), Alan Armstrong (1B/0S), Dan Newhouse (1B/0S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
COST has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell COST.
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