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 May 1, 2026, COST stock price declined to $1,011.70 with 1,244,438 million shares trading.

COST has a beta of 0.22, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. COST has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.

COST has a market cap of $449.06 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 price return of +2.1% while the SPY ETF gained +30.4%. However, in the short term, COST had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +7.8% vs +4.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, COST shares have been beat by the market, returning +1.3% compared to an SPY return of +1.5%.

COST support price is $999.47 and resistance is $1,026.65 (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.