COST Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Costco Wholesale | NASDAQ:COST)

Founded in 1983, Costco Wholesale now operates a global chain of membership-based warehouse clubs, delivering high-quality goods and services at consistently low prices. As of its most recent fiscal year, Costco operated approximately 910 warehouses, serving more than 80 million members across its three geographic segments: Costco US (approximately 73% of total revenue), Costco Canada (13%), and Costco International (14%).Costco's core value proposition—quality products at unbeatable prices—has yielded consistently strong member renewal rates (93% in the US and Canada and nearly 90% internationally). About 55% of Costco's fiscal 2025 revenue came from its grocery offerings, and another 25% from general merchandise.

Costco Wholesale trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol COST.

As of March 20, 2026, COST stock price declined to $972.33 with 2,098,576 million shares trading.

COST has a beta of 0.28, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. COST has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

COST has a market cap of $431.59 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

Last quarter Costco Wholesale reported $70 billion in Revenue and $4.58 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $316 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.03.

In the last 3 years, COST traded as high as $1,078.24 and as low as $476.75.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that COST belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, QQQ, IVV, SPY.

COST has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +9.2%, while SPY returned +16.6%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in COST shares. However, COST has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +13.8% and -2.6%, while SPY returned -4.4% and -3.3%, respectively. This indicates COST has been having a stronger performance recently.

COST support price is $962.61 and resistance is $986.95 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that COST shares will trade within this expected range on the day.