Business description: Costco Wholesale Corporation

Costco Wholesale Corporation specializes in the distribution of products and services at discount prices (food, sports equipment, household appliances, books, toys, jewelry, TVs, cameras, photo developing and printing services, etc.). The group develops its activity through a network of warehouse stores opened to individuals or companies who have paid a subscription fee. Net sales break down by revenue source as follows:

- sales of products (98.1%);

- sales of subscriptions (1.9%).

As of 31/08/2025, Costco Wholesale Corporation had a network of 914 warehouse stores located in the United States and Puerto Rico (629), Canada (110), Mexico (42), Japan (37), the United Kingdom (29), Korea (20), Australia (15), Taiwan (14), China (7), Spain (5), France (2), Sweden (2), New Zealand and Iceland.

Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (72.7%), Canada (13.4%) and other (13.9%).

Number of employees: 341,000

Sales by Activity: Costco Wholesale Corporation

Fiscal Period: August 2021 (USD) 2022 (USD) 2023 (USD) 2024 (USD) 2025 (USD)

Membership Warehouses

196B 227B 242B 254B 275B
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Geographical breakdown of sales: Costco Wholesale Corporation

Fiscal Period: August 2021 (USD) 2022 (USD) 2023 (USD) 2024 (USD) 2025 (USD)

United States

141B 165B 177B 184B 200B

Other International

27.23B 29.98B 32.6B 35.44B 38.27B

Canada

27.3B 31.68B 33.06B 34.87B 36.92B
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Executive Committee: Costco Wholesale Corporation

Manager TitleAgeSince
Chief Executive Officer 61 01/01/2024
Director of Finance/CFO 54 15/03/2024
Compliance Officer - -
Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer 62 01/12/2023
Chief Administrative Officer 64 01/01/2019
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Composition of the Board of Directors: Costco Wholesale Corporation

Director TitleAgeSince
Director/Board Member 62 01/10/2004
Director/Board Member 68 01/12/2008
Chairman 75 01/08/2017
Director/Board Member 71 01/10/2015
Director/Board Member 71 01/10/2015
Director/Board Member 67 01/03/2017
Director/Board Member 70 01/01/2020
Director/Board Member 61 02/02/2022
Director/Board Member 61 16/08/2023
Director/Board Member 54 15/01/2026
Composition of the Board of Directors

Shareholders: Costco Wholesale Corporation

NameEquities%Valuation
Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co.
9.79 %
43,455,368 9.79 % 37 473 M $
BlackRock Advisors LLC
6.062 %
26,909,088 6.062 % 23 205 M $
4.092 %
18,164,785 4.092 % 15 664 M $
Geode Capital Management LLC
2.334 %
10,361,829 2.334 % 8 935 M $
Eaton Vance Management
2.121 %
9,415,648 2.121 % 8 119 M $
NameEquities%Valuation
Caixa DTVM SA
0.001072 %
190,367 0.001072 % 4 M $
Safra Asset CTVM SA (Investment Management)
0.000295 %
52,400 0.000295 % 1 M $
XP Allocation Asset Management Ltda.
0.000072 %
12,800 0.000072 % 276 336 $
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Company details: Costco Wholesale Corporation

Costco Wholesale Corp.

999 Lake Drive

98027-8990, Issaquah

+425 313 8100

http://www.costco.com
address Costco Wholesale Corporation(COST)

Group companies: Costco Wholesale Corporation

NameCategory and Sector
Miscellaneous Commercial Services
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Other Discount Stores

Change 5d. change 1-year change 3-years change Capi.($)
+0.56%+1.81%+4.13%+99.15% 433B
+1.32%-1.04%+1.41%-21.14% 57.66B
+1.24%-2.83%-21.22%-34.32% 48.22B
-0.27%-1.86%+36.75%+131.09% 38.22B
+0.94%-1.84%+104.69%-36.81% 31.83B
+0.43%+2.70%+13.56%+97.39% 17.45B
+1.03%-3.28%+0.74%+109.26% 6.86B
+0.68%-0.67%-48.97%-64.76% 4.92B
-1.67%-0.34%+93.82%-27.95% 4.76B
+1.82%+1.82%+23.19% - 2.33B
Average +0.61%-1.11%+20.81%+27.99% 64.56B
Weighted average by Cap. +0.65%+0.74%+9.43%+71.40%
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Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
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More Ratings
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
OUTPERFORM
Number of Analysts
36
Last Close Price
976.17USD
Average target price
1,030.19USD
Spread / Average Target
+5.53%
Consensus

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