COST: Costco Wholesale Corp Company Profile & Statistics

About

Costco Wholesale Corporation sells high volumes of foods and general merchandise at discounted prices through membership warehouses. The company also operates e-commerce websites in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia. The company's warehouses offer an array of low-priced nationally branded and select private labeled products in a wide range of merchandise categories. Costco offers three types of memberships to its customers: Business, Gold Star, and Executive. Costco generates revenue from two sources: 1) Store sales and 2) Membership fees. Costco offers myriad varieties of food products as well as a vast range of household and lifestyle products, stationeries and appliances. The company also sells gasoline to customers at cheap prices and offers merchandise in the following categories: Food and Sundries, Hardlines, Fresh Foods, Softlines, Ancillary.

Info & Links

CEO

Ron M. Vachris

Headquarters

999 LAKE DRIVE
ISSAQUAH, WA 98027, UNITED STATES

Auditor

KPMG LLP

Share holders

10,471

Employees

333,000

Costco Wholesale Corp Statistics

Valuation Measures

Market Capitalization²

420.10B

Enterprise Value

414.93B

Enterprise Value/EBITDA(ttm)

45.92

Price to Earnings Ratio(ttm)

60.11

Price to Sales(ttm)

1.69

Price to Book(mrq)

18.57

Price to Cash(ytd)

46.64

Profitability

Gross Margin(ttm)

12.61%

Operating Margin(ttm)

2.83%

Profit Margin(ttm)

2.89%

Return on Equity(ttm)

33.19%

Return on Invested Capital(ttm)

25.60%

Return on Assets(ttm)

10.76%

Income Statement

Revenue(ttm)

258.81B

Revenue Per Share(ttm)

Gross Profit(ttm)

32.80B

EBITDA(ttm)³

9.04B

Net Income Available to Common(ttm)

7.58B

Diluted EPS(ttm)

17.03

Share Statistics

Beta (5Y Monthly)

0.82

52-Week Change

62.81%

S&P 500 52-Week Change

24.88%

S&P 500 Member

Yes

Stock Optionable

Yes

Total Shares Outstanding¹

Dividend Yield

0.47%

Float⁴

442.28M

% Held by Insiders

0.18%

% Held by Institutions

68.48%

Balance Sheet

Total Cash(mrq)

11.83B

Total Cash Per Share(mrq)

Total Debt(mrq)

5.75B

Total Debt/Equity(mrq)

24.96%

Current Ratio(mrq)

0.97%

Quick Ratio(mrq)

0.44%

Book Value Per Share(mrq)

53.31

Cash Flow

Operating Cash Flow Per Share(ytd)

25.49

Free Cash Flow(ytd)

6.63B

Table Key

mrq = Most Recent Quarter

ttm = Trailing Twelve Months

ytd = Year To Date

Footnotes

Data provided by Zacks Investment Research or calculated by FXEmpire. All numbers are rounded to the closest decimal.

1 Total Shares outstanding is taken from the most recently filed quarterly or annual report.
2 Market Cap is calculated using total shares outstanding and the most recent share price.
3 EBITDA is calculated using methodology that may differ from that used by a company in its reporting.
4 The float is a measure of the number of shares available for trading by the public. It's calculated by taking the number of issued and outstanding shares minus any restricted stock, which might not be publicly traded.

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