Costco Wholesale Corporation
COST.TO (TSX: COST) TSXAt a glance
- Up 17.1% over the past year; the S&P/TSX Composite rose 20.0%.
- P/E 53.2 — lower than 3% of Consumer Defensive peers (35 companies).
- Market cap $633.07B; average daily dollar volume $4.8M over the past 3 months — High liquidity.
- Pays a 0.54% trailing dividend yield (as of 2026-11-12).
- No published plan for this ticker.
- 1-year volatility 20.3% (annualized); largest fall from a peak over the past year -18.8%.
Price chart
Split- and dividend-adjusted. All three lines are rebased to 100 at the start of the range, so the chart compares moves, not prices. L marks a LONG plan, S a SHORT plan — each links to that session's day page.
Monthly closes (table version, last 5 years)
| Month | Close |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 40.64 |
| 2024-11 | 45.18 |
| 2024-12 | 42.42 |
| 2025-01 | 45.24 |
| 2025-02 | 48.33 |
| 2025-03 | 43.52 |
| 2025-04 | 45.57 |
| 2025-05 | 47.50 |
| 2025-06 | 45.23 |
| 2025-07 | 42.83 |
| 2025-08 | 42.90 |
| 2025-09 | 41.98 |
| 2025-10 | 41.36 |
| 2025-11 | 41.32 |
| 2025-12 | 38.90 |
| 2026-01 | 42.30 |
| 2026-02 | 45.36 |
| 2026-03 | 44.69 |
| 2026-04 | 45.41 |
| 2026-05 | 42.82 |
| 2026-06 | 41.86 |
| 2026-07 | 42.41 |
| 2026-08 | 42.02 |
| 2026-09 | 40.45 |
| 2026-10 | 44.86 |
| 2026-11 | 48.43 |
The Composite is proxied by XIU.TO (iShares S&P/TSX 60 Index ETF); the database holds no Composite index series. The sector fund is a fund, never the index.
Performance
Over the past year the stock is up 17.1% against +20.0% for the Composite — 2.9 points behind.
| Metric | 1W | 1M | 3M | 6M | YTD | 1Y | 3Y | 5Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stock | +2.5% | +15.3% | +14.4% | +4.7% | +24.5% | +17.1% | — | — |
| Sector fund (XST.TO) | +0.8% | +9.1% | +3.7% | +11.4% | +8.7% | +17.0% | +15.5% | +12.6% |
| Composite (XIU.TO, proxy) | +1.8% | +2.8% | -0.1% | +9.4% | +16.1% | +20.0% | +22.0% | +10.5% |
| Difference vs Composite | +0.7% | +12.5% | +14.5% | -4.7% | +8.4% | -2.9% | — | — |
3Y and 5Y are annualized from 3Y. The Composite is proxied by XIU.TO; the sector fund is iShares S&P/TSX Capped Consumer Staples Index ETF (XST.TO).
Risk and trading
1-year volatility +20.3% (annualized); largest fall from a peak -18.8% (May 19, 2026 to Sep 16, 2026); beta 0.57 against the Composite (2Y weekly).
| Volatility (1Y, annualized) | +20.3% |
| Maximum drawdown (1Y) | -18.8% (May 19, 2026 to Sep 16, 2026) |
| Beta (2Y weekly, vs Composite) | 0.57 |
| Average daily volume (3M) | 110,220 |
| Dollar volume (3M, average per day) | $4.8M |
| Liquidity | High (High: $1M or more a day; Moderate: $100K or more; Low: under $100K, by average daily dollar volume.) |
Valuation
P/E 53.2 — lower than 3% of Consumer Defensive peers (35 companies). The sector median P/E is 22.0.
| Multiple | Value | Against sector peers |
|---|---|---|
| P/E (TTM) | 53.2 | Lower than 3% of peers (35 companies; median 22.0) |
| Earnings yield | 1.88% | — |
| P/B | 17.08 | Lower than 9% of peers (35 companies; median 2.24) |
| P/S | Not available: Not available — needs TTM revenue; see financials. | — |
| EV/EBITDA | 59.4 | Lower than 0% of peers (23 companies; median 10.0) |
| Dividend yield | 0.54% | — |
| Payout ratio | Not available: Not available — no stored dividend history yet. | — |
Each multiple is shown against the sector median of the pages' universe as a percentile: "lower than 25% of peers" means the value sits below 25% of them. Valuation multiples are from the Nov 12, 2026 snapshot, and are always printed with that date.
More: dividend rate and earnings yield
Dividend rate: 0.260. Earnings yield is earnings per share divided by price — the inverse of P/E.
Financials
Revenue $303.15B in 2026 (TTM $382.89B); net income $9.23B; free cash flow $9.38B. Reporting currency: USD.
| Metric | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | TTM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $303.15B | $303.15B | $303.15B | $303.15B | $382.89B |
| Gross margin | 12.8% | 12.8% | 12.8% | 12.8% | — |
| Net income | $9.23B | $9.23B | $9.23B | $9.23B | $11.99B |
| Free cash flow | $9.38B | $9.38B | $9.38B | $9.38B | $9.91B |
| Diluted shares | 443,266,000 | 443,266,000 | 443,266,000 | 443,266,000 | — |
Revenue by year
Free cash flow by year
| Cash | $20.21B |
| Total debt | $8.58B |
| Debt-to-equity | 0.24 |
| Operating margin (latest snapshot, Nov 12, 2026) | 3.8% |
Figures as reported in stored financials; reporting currency USD. Operating margin is not stored per year, so the latest snapshot value is shown. TTM covers 2025-11-30, 2026-02-28, 2026-05-31, 2026-08-31.
Dividends and splits
Pays a 0.54% trailing dividend yield (as of Nov 12, 2026). No splits on record.
| Year | Dividend per share |
|---|---|
| Not available: No stored dividend history yet. | |
Trailing yield 0.54% is the stored key-stats snapshot value (as of Nov 12, 2026) — the dividend history itself is not stored yet, so no history table is shown.
| Date | Action | Ratio |
|---|---|---|
| Not available: No splits on record for this ticker. | ||
Next ex-dividend date: Not available: No stored ex-dividend dates for equities. Prices on the chart are split- and dividend-adjusted (no splits on record, so nothing to adjust).
Ownership and dilution
Insiders bought 0 times and sold 0 times in the 90 days to Nov 12, 2026. Shares outstanding grew 0.0% over 1 year.
| Insider buys (90 days) | 0 |
| Insider sell (90 days) | 0 |
| Shares outstanding change (1Y) | 0.0% |
| Shares outstanding change (3Y) | 0.0% |
| Held by insiders | Not available: No holding split in the snapshot |
| Held by institutions | Not available: No holding split in the snapshot |
Counts are by filing date. Holdings are from the key-stats snapshot (as of Nov 12, 2026).
No insider trades stored for this ticker.
Peers
Peers in Consumer Defensive, by market cap: WMT.TO, PG.TO, ZYNS.TO, NSTL.TO, L.TO, DOL.TO, WN.TO, STZ.TO.
| Ticker | Price | 1Y % | Market cap | P/E | EV/EBITDA | Div yield | 1Y vol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WMT.TO | 52.44 | — | $1309.28B | 46.8 | — | — | +26.6% |
| PG.TO | 27.52 | — | $509.35B | 25.5 | — | — | +21.5% |
| ZYNS.TO | 27.00 | +24.7% | $422.13B | 29.3 | — | — | +29.1% |
| NSTL.TO | 26.14 | +9.6% | $113.38B | 871.3 | — | — | +22.6% |
| L.TO | 69.35 | +22.7% | $80.14B | 31.2 | 16.6 | 0.90% | +22.2% |
| DOL.TO | 220.42 | +16.7% | $59.15B | 44.3 | 33.6 | 0.21% | +25.3% |
| WN.TO | 111.30 | +29.0% | $41.66B | 45.4 | 10.0 | 1.16% | +21.2% |
| STZ.TO | 11.30 | — | $31.71B | 13.1 | — | — | +34.1% |
Each row links to its own page when one exists. Peer 1Y returns and volatility use raw closes; peer splits are unadjusted.
analiti.ca history
No published plans for this ticker.
| Date | Side | Entry | Stop | First exit | Exits | Outcome (full ladder) | First exit | Hold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not available: No published plans for this ticker. | ||||||||
The full ladder is the headline method: 40/30/20% at the three exits, the last slice held to stop or end. First exit credits the whole position at the first exit level. Full history: the track record.
Superstock score
No Superstock score published for this ticker. The score is the published Superstock screen score — nothing else.
Sector condition: Consumer Defensive — Leading (as of Nov 5, 2026). Superstock screen.
Key dates
| Next earnings | Not available: No company release or exchange notice in the stored data — stored dates are Yahoo-sourced, so none is shown. |
| Last earnings | Not available: No earnings date stored. |
| Next ex-dividend | Not available: No stored ex-dividend dates for equities. |
The next earnings date is shown only from the company's own release or an exchange notice, with a link. The stored last-earnings date is Yahoo-sourced.
Sources and data notes
| Block | Source | As of |
|---|---|---|
| prices, chart, performance, risk | daily_prices (Yahoo) | Nov 12, 2026 |
| valuation, market cap, ownership | yahoo_key_stats snapshot | Nov 12, 2026 |
| financials | financials (Yahoo) | Aug 31, 2026 |
| plans, resolutions | published entries-*.json + track-record.json | Nov 12, 2026 |
| insiders | insider_trades (SEDI filings) | Nov 12, 2026 |
| splits | Split inventory (interim table) | Nov 5, 2026 |
| sector condition | conditions-2026-11-05.json | Nov 5, 2026 |
| Superstock score | superstock_checks + superstock.json | Nov 12, 2026 |
Not available rules. A field older than its freshness limit shows "not available", never a stale number: prices, 3 trading days; fundamentals, 120 days after the fiscal period end plus 45 days. Valuation multiples are always printed with their snapshot date.
Data file: /data/t/COST.TO.json · Markdown twin: /t/COST.TO.md
Facts and published history only. Plans are generated by a quant model.