During the recent session, Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST)’s traded shares were 1.35 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.99. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $1038.43, reflecting an intraday gain of 2.94% or $29.69. The 52-week high for the COST share is $1078.23, that puts it down -3.83 from that peak though still a striking 24.1% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $788.20. The company’s market capitalization is $460.73B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.87 million shares, and the average trade volume was 2.43 million shares over the past three months.
Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.05. COST has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 23 analysts who have looked at this stock. 6 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 17 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST) trade information
Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) registered a 2.94% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 2.94% in intraday trading to $1038.43, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 1.99%, and it has moved by 4.42% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 27.70%. The short interest in Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST) is 6.17 million shares and it means that shorts have 3.04 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $1057.5, which implies an increase of 1.8% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $1035 and $1100 respectively. As a result, COST is trading at a discount of -5.93% off the target high and 0.33% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 14.93%. While earnings are projected to return 9.44% in 2025, the next five years will return 10.00% per annum.
COST Dividends
Costco Wholesale Corp is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-May-28. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Costco Wholesale Corp is 4.78, with the dividend yield indicating at 0.46 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 0.65%.
Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST)’s Major holders
Costco Wholesale Corp insiders own 0.20% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 72.16%, with the float percentage being 72.30%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 4786.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 41.37 million shares (or 9.3206% of all shares), a total value of $35.17 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 33.19 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 7.4763% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $28.21 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 14.02 shares. This amounts to just over 3.16 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $14.52 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 12.33, or about 2.78% of the stock, which is worth about $12.77 billion.
