Costco – Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) EPS growth this year is 12.90%: Get Prepared for Trading Lift Off

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) started the day on January 21, 2021, with a price increase of 0.42% at $362.80. During the day, the stock rose to $363.99 and sunk to $359.9401 before settling in for the price of $361.30 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, COST posted a 52-week range of $264.36-$388.07.

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It was noted that the giant of the Consumer Defensive sector posted annual sales growth of 7.50% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 10.90%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 12.90%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $442.95 million, simultaneously with a float of $441.98 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $160.79 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $373.13, while the 200-day Moving Average is $340.89.

It is quite fundamental to gauge the extent of the productivity of the business which is accounted for 156000 workers. It has generated 610,846 per worker during the last fiscal year. Meanwhile, its income per employee was 14,659. The stock had 108.11 Receivables turnover and 3.30 Total Asset turnover. For the Profitability, stocks gross margin was +13.15, operating margin was +3.64 and Pretax Margin of +3.22.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Ownership Facts and Figures

Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Discount Stores Industry. Costco Wholesale Corporation’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.20%, in contrast to 70.10% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Jan 13, this organization’s Director sold 1,199 shares at the rate of 366.48, making the entire transaction reach 439,414 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 19,440. Preceding that transaction, on Jan 08, Company’s Executive VP sold 9,015 for 366.50, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 3,304,025. This particular insider is now the holder of 23,049 in total.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Earnings and Revenue Records

In the latest quarterly report released, which was put into the public domain on 11/29/2020, the organization reported $2.3 earnings per share (EPS) for the three months, surpassing the consensus estimate (set at $2.05) by $0.25. This company achieved a net margin of +2.40 while generating a return on equity of 23.87. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.22 per share during the current fiscal year.

Costco Wholesale Corporation’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 12.90% and is forecasted to reach 10.99 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 8.60% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 10.90% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.50. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 5.57. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $37.26, and its Beta score is 0.64. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.93. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 30.91.

In the same vein, COST’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 9.74, a figure that is expected to reach 2.41 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 10.99 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)

If we take a close look at the recent performances of Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST), its last 5-days Average volume was 2.83 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 2.71 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 36.88% While, its Average True Range was 5.91.

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Raw Stochastic average of Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 51.01%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 35.59% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 17.94% that was lower than 19.06% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.