Ratings Costco Wholesale Corporation

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COST

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Summary

  • The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
  • Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
  • The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.

Strengths

  • The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
  • There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
  • The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.

Weaknesses

  • As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
  • The company sustains low margins.
  • The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 44.89 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
  • The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
  • The valuation of the company is particularly high given the cash flows generated by its activity.
  • The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
  • Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been revised negatively.

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Chart ESG Refinitiv

Sector: Discount Stores

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