Costco Wholesale Stock in Focus

By Susan Ramirez • Thursday, April 20 12:05 • Permanent Link

Large-cap Consumer Discretionary company Costco Wholesale has logged a 2.5% change today on a trading volume of 1,177,969. The average volume for the stock is 1,894,908.

Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, France, Iceland, China, and Taiwan. Based in Issaquah, United States the company has 304,000 full time employees and a market cap of $225,444,593,664. Costco Wholesale currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 0.7% per year.

The company is now trading -7.17% away from its average analyst target price of $547.64 per share. The 33 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $465.0 to $635.0, and on average give Costco Wholesale a rating of buy.

Over the last year, COST shares have gone down by -16.2%, which represents a difference of -11.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $609.18 per share and its 52 week low is $406.51.

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