COST

Costco Wholesale Corporation
NasdaqGSUSDEQUITY Consumer Defensive DELAYED
Last price
934.53
▲ 11.01 (1.19%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
955.76
Prev close
923.52
Day high
937.02
Day low
920.78
Volume
1.90M
Market cap
$414.76B
P/E (TTM)
44.49
52W range
844.06 – 1,096.50

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
+3.49%
Prior close 923.52
VWAP
933.14
+0.15% from price
Relative volume
1.20×
Normal
Session range
3.91%
919.75 – 955.76
Position in range
41%
Mid range
ATR (14D)
15.16
1.62% of price
Prior day high
925.34
PDH
Prior day low
914.75
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
2.52M
Avg 2.11M

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+1.20% -0.7%
1M
+2.18% +1.0%
3M
-1.83% -6.4%
6M
-7.65% -25.8%
YTD
+8.50% -5.7%
1Y
+2.22% -14.2%
3Y
+65.62% -16.6%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

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Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
+31.11K
Net buying
Buy transactions
8
35.00K shares
Sell transactions
3
3.88K shares
Net transactions
+11
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
0.1 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
367.91K
Total on file
Bought 35.00KSold 3.88K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Sep 29, 26
ADAMO CLAUDINE
Officer
SELL 2.20K $2.02M Direct
Sep 29, 26
FRATES CATON
Officer
SELL 800 $733.33K Direct
Sep 10, 26
FRATES CATON
Officer
STOCK 4.55K $0 Direct
Sep 10, 26
JONES TERESA A
Officer
STOCK 4.13K $0 Direct
Sep 10, 26
WILCOX WILLIAM RICHARD
Officer
STOCK 4.13K $0 Direct
Sep 10, 26
KLAUER JAMES C
Officer
STOCK 4.13K $0 Direct
Sep 10, 26
RUBANENKO YORAM B.
Officer
STOCK 4.13K $0 Direct
Sep 10, 26
ADAMO CLAUDINE
Officer
STOCK 4.13K $0 Direct
Sep 10, 26
RIEL PIERRE
Officer
STOCK 4.55K $0 Direct
Jul 10, 26
RAIKES JEFFREY S
Director
STOCK 5.25K $0 Direct
Jun 23, 26
DENMAN KENNETH D
Director
SELL 885 $847.35K Direct
Apr 1, 26
FRATES CATON
Officer
SELL 700 $695.10K Direct
Mar 9, 26
ADAMO CLAUDINE
Officer
SELL 730 $732.21K Direct
Jan 27, 26
RAIKES JEFFREY S
Director
STOCK 5.12K $0 Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
CALLANS PATRICK J
Officer 61.81K Stock Award(Grant)
GALANTI RICHARD ALAN
Officer and Director 35.13K Sale
JAMES HAMILTON E
Director 56.69K Stock Award(Grant)
JELINEK WALTER CRAIG
Director 354.39K Stock Gift
KLAUER JAMES C
Officer 48.13K Stock Award(Grant)
MILLERCHIP GARY
Officer 16.62K Stock Award(Grant)
RIEL PIERRE
Officer 14.25K Stock Award(Grant)
STANTON JOHN W.
Director 24.51K Stock Award(Grant)
SULLIVAN JOHN CHRISTOPHER
Officer 47.67K Stock Award(Grant)
VACHRIS ROLAND MICHAEL
Chief Executive Officer 52.26K Stock Award(Grant)

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$414.76B
Enterprise value$402.03B
Revenue (TTM)$303.15B
Gross profit$38.88B
EBITDA$14.36B
Net income$9.23B
EPS (TTM)$21.03
Free cash flow$7.15B
Total cash$21.30B
Total debt$8.58B
Book value / share$80.77
Shares outstanding443.27M
Float442.39M
Short % of float1.66%
Dividend yield0.64%
Beta (5Y)0.87

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E44.49
Forward P/E37.41
PEG ratio4.65
Price / sales—
Price / book11.58
EV / revenue1.33
EV / EBITDA28.00
Gross margin12.82%
Operating margin3.97%
Profit margin3.04%
Return on equity28.40%
Return on assets8.79%
Debt / equity23.95
Current ratio1.06
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $275.24B$254.45B$242.29B$226.95B +8.2%
Operating revenue $275.24B$254.45B$242.29B$226.95B +8.2%
Cost of revenue $239.89B$222.36B$212.59B$199.38B +7.9%
Gross profit $35.35B$32.09B$29.70B$27.57B +10.1%
Selling, general & admin $24.97B$22.81B$21.59B$19.78B +9.5%
Total operating expense $24.97B$22.81B$21.59B$19.78B +9.5%
Operating income $10.38B$9.29B$8.11B$7.79B +11.8%
Net interest income $351.00M$429.00M$344.00M-$59.00M -18.2%
Pre-tax income $10.82B$9.74B$8.49B$7.84B +11.1%
Tax provision $2.72B$2.37B$2.19B$1.93B +14.6%
Net income $8.10B$7.37B$6.29B$5.84B +9.9%
Net income to common $8.10B$7.37B$6.29B$5.84B +9.9%
Basic EPS 18.2416.5914.1813.17 +9.9%
Diluted EPS 18.2116.5614.1613.14 +10.0%
EBIT $10.97B$9.91B$8.65B$8.00B +10.7%
EBITDA $13.40B$12.15B$10.72B$9.90B +10.3%
Basic shares 443.99M443.91M443.85M443.65M +0.0%
Diluted shares 444.80M444.76M444.45M444.76M +0.0%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.65
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
0.95
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
915.00
-2.2% from spot
ATM implied vol
24.0%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
+1.0%
Puts bid over calls
Call volume
7.37K
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
4.76K
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
950.00
1.09K contracts
Heaviest put OI
890.00
748 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Aug 2026 6.536.75 +3.4%
May 2026 4.924.93 +0.1%
Feb 2026 4.544.58 +0.8%
Nov 2025 4.284.50 +5.3%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 4.90 23 $74.05B +10.0%
Next quarter 5.12 23 $76.48B +9.9%
Current year 22.78 31 $328.50B +8.4%
Next year 24.96 29 $352.94B +7.4%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$1,057.94
High target$1,315.00
Low target$770.00
Implied upside13.21%
Analyst count35
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy4 / 20
Hold13
Sell / Strong sell1 / 1
Held by insiders0.08%
Held by institutions74.44%
Institutions holding5.17K
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
917.66
+1.84% from price
SMA 20
909.37
+2.89% from price
SMA 50
932.58
+0.33% from price
SMA 100
950.35
-1.66% from price
SMA 200
962.10
-2.75% from price
EMA 12
918.22
+1.78% from price
EMA 26
919.34
+1.65% from price
EMA 50
928.03
+0.70% from price
RSI (14)
58.3
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-1.12
Hist 4.38
ATR (14)
15.16
1.62% of price
Realised vol 30D
16.7%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
933.88
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
884.86
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
932.58 vs 962.10
Trend bias
Below 200
-2.75%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 934.53
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
-0.10
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
-0.07
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
16.7%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-18.3%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-31.5%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
15.16
1.62% of price
Beta (reported)
0.87
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
7.36M
Prior 7.36M
Change vs prior
-0.1%
Shorts covering
% of float
1.66%
Normal
% of shares out
1.66%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
3.8
Liquid
Float
442.39M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

647 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Sep 28, 26 Deutsche Bank MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 28, 26 Argus Research MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 25, 26 Freedom Broker MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 25, 26 Raymond James MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Sep 25, 26 Roth Capital MAINTAINED Sell Sell
Sep 25, 26 JP Morgan MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Sep 25, 26 Truist Securities MAINTAINED Hold Hold
Sep 25, 26 DA Davidson MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Sep 25, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Sector Perform Sector Perform
Sep 25, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight
Sep 25, 26 Mizuho MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Sep 25, 26 Bernstein MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$5.88 / yr
Forward yield0.64%
5-year avg yield0.57%
Payout ratio27.01%
Ex-dividend dateJul 24, 2026
Next pay dateAug 7, 2026
Last split2:1
Split dateJan 14, 2000

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