Shares of Consumer Discretionary sector company Costco Wholesale moved -0.5% today, and are now trading at a price of $681.02. The large-cap stock's daily volume was 145,245 compared to its average volume of 2,104,688. The S&P 500 index returned a 0.0% performance.
Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The company is based in Issaquah and has 316,000 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $302,187,642,880. Costco Wholesale currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 0.6% per year.
33 analysts are following Costco Wholesale and have set target prices ranging from $465.0 to $755.0 per share. On average, they have given the company a rating of buy. At today's prices, COST is trading 1.33% away from its average analyst target price of $672.1 per share.
Over the last year, COST's share price has increased by 45.7%, which represents a difference of 24.2% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $686.52 per share whereas its 52 week low is $465.33. Costco Wholesale's average free cash flow over the last 6 years has been $6.84 Billion, but they have been decreasing at an average rate of -2.2%. This may prove a challenge to the long term sustainability of the stock's upwards trend.
| Date Reported | Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) | Capital expenditures ($ k) | Free Cash Flow ($ k) | YoY Growth (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 11,068,000 | 4,323,000 | 6,745,000 | 25.33 |
| 2022 | 11,051,000 | 5,669,000 | 5,382,000 | -18.32 |
| 2021 | 11,643,000 | 5,054,000 | 6,589,000 | -24.89 |
| 2020 | 11,582,000 | 2,810,000 | 8,772,000 | 25.37 |
| 2019 | 8,314,000 | 1,317,000 | 6,997,000 | 6.65 |
| 2018 | 7,889,000 | 1,328,000 | 6,561,000 |
