Costco Wholesale
$914.94Change from previous close: +0.51%Absolute change: +$4.60
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $405.56B
- Enterprise value
- $392.84B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 43.9
- Forward P/E
- 36.6
- PEG
- 4.58
- Price/book
- 11.3
- Price/sales
- 1.34
- EV/EBITDA
- 27.4
- EV/revenue
- 1.30
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 12.8%
- Operating margin
- 4.0%
- Net margin
- 3.0%
- ROE
- 28.4%
- ROA
- 8.8%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 11.1%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 15.0%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $21.3B
- Total debt
- $8.58B
- Debt/equity
- 0.24
- Current ratio
- 1.06
- Quick ratio
- 0.58
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $5.88
- Dividend yield
- 0.6%
- Payout ratio
- 26.7%
- Ex-dividend date
- July 24, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $1,057.94
- Median price target
- $1,065.00
- High price target
- $1,315.00
- Low price target
- $770.00
- Number of analysts
- 35
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $25.01
- EPS estimate, current year
- $22.78
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.86
- Average volume
- 2.13M
- Shares outstanding
- 443.27M
- Float
- 442.39M
- Institutional ownership
- 74.4%
- Insider ownership
- 0.1%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 1.7%
- Short ratio (days)
- 3.81