Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $890.62, with 3.43 million shares of worth about $3.06 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -0.41% during that period and on March 13, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -3.93%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 443.73M shares, out of which, 442.87M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -13.25% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -15.85%. Year-to-date (YTD), COST shares are showing a performance of -2.80% which increased to 24.72% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $697.27 but also hit the highest price of $1078.23 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Costco Wholesale Corp shares is 2.17 million. The stock is currently trading -12.41% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -9.69% for SMA50 and it goes to -2.44% lower than SMA200.
Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) currently have 443.73M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 69.59% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $395.35B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.96. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 51.99, while it has posted earnings per share of $17.13 in the same period. Its PEG reads 5.23 and has Quick Ratio of 0.49 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for COST, volatility over the week remained 3.67% while standing at 2.30% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 9.32% while it is estimated to increase by 10.22% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 9.94% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 14.93% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Telsey Advisory Group on December 05, 2024 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $1000 and $1050 to it. Coverage by Bernstein stated Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on October 22, 2024, suggesting a price target of $1016 for the stock. On October 10, 2024, Oppenheimer Reiterated their recommendations, while on September 27, 2024, Telsey Advisory Group Reiterated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $1000. Stock get a Hold rating from Truist on September 24, 2024.
