Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)

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Costco Wholesale Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Costco Wholesale Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $129 billion in fiscal 2017 to $303 billion in fiscal 2026, up 10% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-08-30, Costco Wholesale Corporation's diluted share count held steady, and dividends and buybacks returned about 40% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 13 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-08-30, Costco Wholesale Corporation earned about 26 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 44 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 60 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Costco Wholesale Corporation's standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $303 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 17% by size; a net margin of 3% ranks in the bottom 25%; revenue growth of 7.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 45% (its annual reports).

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Costco Wholesale Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Vachris, Roland Michael (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-10-24, 2.1 years (top 31% of its family); the 24 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (bottom 28%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 24 people in charge now (top 50%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Costco Wholesale Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $20 billion against debt of $3.9 billion leaves 18.3% of its assets as net cash, top 15% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.1% of revenue (bottom 45%); a gross margin of 12.8% (bottom 5%) (its annual report).

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Costco Wholesale Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 7.8% a year over the last three filed years against 10% over all 10, slowing (bottom 45% of its family); the newest year grew 10.2% (bottom 45%); capital spending grew 14.2% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Costco Wholesale Corporation reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2025: Food and Sundries at $110 billion (40%), Non Foods at $71 billion (26%), Other at $51 billion (19%), and 2 more; 5 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Costco Wholesale Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $303 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 3.3% above the $293 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 45% of its family); net income of $9.2 billion against a prior three-year average of $7.3 billion (bottom 45%); a net margin of 3% against 2.8% before (top 45%) (its annual reports).