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

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

Executive Committee: Costco Wholesale Corporation

Manager TitleAgeSince
Chief Executive Officer 61 2023-12-31
Director of Finance/CFO 54 2024-03-14
Compliance Officer - -
Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer 62 2023-11-30
Chief Administrative Officer 64 2018-12-31

Composition of the Board of Directors: Costco Wholesale Corporation

Director TitleAgeSince
Director/Board Member 62 2004-09-30
Director/Board Member 68 2008-11-30
Chairman 75 2017-07-31
Director/Board Member 71 2015-09-30
Director/Board Member 71 2015-09-30
Director/Board Member 67 2017-02-28
Director/Board Member 70 2019-12-31
Director/Board Member 61 2022-02-01
Director/Board Member 61 2023-08-15
Director/Board Member 55 2026-01-14

Shareholders: Costco Wholesale Corporation

NameStocks%Valuation
Vanguard Capital Management LLC
6.505 %
28,847,448 6.505 % 26 986 M $
BlackRock Advisors LLC
6.014 %
26,672,908 6.014 % 24 952 M $
4.093 %
18,152,232 4.093 % 16 981 M $
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC
2.414 %
10,705,635 2.414 % 10 015 M $
Geode Capital Management LLC
2.404 %
10,659,224 2.404 % 9 971 M $
NameStocks%Valuation
Safra Asset CTVM SA (Investment Management)
0.000284 %
50,400 0.000284 % 1 M $
XP Allocation Asset Management Ltda.
0.000061 %
10,834 0.000061 % 252 935 $

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
Other Consumer Services
Other Consumer Services
Specialty Stores
Miscellaneous Commercial Services
Food Retail

Other Discount Stores

Change 5-day change 1-year change 3-year change Capi.($)
-0.50%+2.69%-1.37%+70.15% 417B
-0.44%+3.30%+34.68%+7.38% 63.41B
-0.14%+0.34%-7.48%-27.10% 48.7B
+1.02%+3.03%+0.69%+117.02% 36.85B
-1.11%+5.74%+15.12%-21.96% 27.74B
+2.30%+4.54%-12.40%+66.54% 16.37B
+1.89%+7.56%+100.92%+18.65% 6.02B
0.00%0.00%-28.02%-57.43% 4.62B
-0.67%+2.48%-49.57%-6.06% 4.02B
-0.60%-0.25%-14.49%-63.50% 2.69B
Average +0.16%+2.88%+3.81%+10.37% 62.77B
Weighted average by Cap. -0.43%+2.73%+2.78%+52.36%
Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
BBB
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
OUTPERFORM
Number of Analysts
39
Last Close Price
940.87USD
Average target price
1,076.91USD
Spread / Average Target
+14.46%

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