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.
| Revenue (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $242.29B |
| Net Income (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $6.29B |
| PE Ratio (Current Year Earnings Estimate) | 49.68 |
| PE Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) | 50.84 |
| PEG Ratio (Long Term Growth Estimate) | 5.24 |
| Price to Sales Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) | 1.40 |
| Price to Book Ratio (Most Recent Quarterly Book Value per Share) | 16.81 |
| Price to Cash Ratio (Most Recent Annual Cash Flow per Share) | 40.53 |
| Pre-Tax Margin (Trailing 12 Months) | 3.65% |
| Net Margin (Trailing 12 Months) | 2.73% |
| Return on Equity (Trailing 12 Months) | 28.80% |
| Return on Assets (Trailing 12 Months) | 9.98% |
| Current Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.93 |
| Quick Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.43 |
| Debt to Common Equity (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.28 |
| Inventory Turnover (Trailing 12 Months) | 12.81 |
| Book Value per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | $56.55 |
| Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | $3.71 |
| Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $14.69 |
| Diluted Earnings per Share (Trailing 12 Months) | $15.29 |
| Exchange | NASDAQ |
| Sector | Consumer Defensive |
| Industry | Discount Stores |
| Common Shares Outstanding | 443.50M |
| Free Float | 442.71M |
| Market Capitalization | $349.06B |
| Average Volume (Last 20 Days) | 1.66M |
| Beta (Past 60 Months) | 0.77 |
| Percentage Held By Insiders (Latest Annual Proxy Report) | 0.18% |
| Percentage Held By Institutions (Latest 13F Reports) | 68.48% |
| Annual Dividend (Based on Last Quarter) | $4.64 |
| Dividend Yield (Based on Last Quarter) | 0.59% |