Costco Wholesale Corporation

COST Consumer Defensive Discount Stores

Costco Wholesale Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended August 2026) was $303.2 billion, up 10.1% from fiscal 2025. In the quarter to August 2026, revenue grew 11.1%, EPS grew 14.8%, free cash flow grew 30.7% and total debt rose 6.46%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100; revenue growth for ten consecutive years, operating cash flow growth for three.

983.72 8.41 −0.85%
Market cap
$435.5B
P/E
47.3×
Fwd P/E
44.0×
Dividend yield
0.71%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
9.04
Beneish M
−2.66
Dividend safety
80/100

Costco Wholesale Corporation 10-K filed Oct 8, 2025

Fiscal year 2025 · Period ended Aug 31, 2025 · Filed · accepted 9:16 PM ET · Document on sec.gov · Filing index

What changed

Item 1, Business, against the 10-K filed Oct 9, 2024: 2 added · 1 removed · 28 modified; 2 with only figures updated

  1. Modified

    Costco Wholesale Corporation and its subsidiaries (Costco or the Company) began operations in 1983, in Seattle, Washington. We are principally engaged in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States (U.S.) and Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom (U.K.), Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, IcelandSweden, New ZealandIceland, and SwedenNew Zealand. Costco operated 890914, 861890, and 838861 warehouses worldwide at September 1August 31, 20242025, September 31, 20232024, and August 28September 3, 20222023. The Company operates e-commerce sites in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the U.K., Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia. Our common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, under the symbol “COST.”