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Costco Wholesale Corporation valuation and key ratios.
Valuation, profitability, balance-sheet health, and risk metrics for COST, refreshed each market session.
Section freshness
Price Aug 19, 1:20 PM EDT · Statements May 9, 8:00 PM EDT
Key metrics at a glance
The numbers most investors check first
Market cap
$428.81B
P/E (TTM)
48.59
Forward P/E
—
FCF yield
—
Return on equity
28.27%
Dividend yield
0.61%
Valuation
- Market cap
- $428.81B
- Enterprise value
- $410.61B
- P/E (TTM)
- 48.59
- Price / sales
- 1.44
- Price / book
- 12.59
- EPS (TTM)
- $19.90
Long-run compounding
CAGR since IPO and aggregate price growth.
Adjusted daily closes are annualized over the full price history; dividends are not included in this price-only return view.
- CAGR since IPO
- 18.02%
- From first adjusted close on August 21, 2006
- Aggregate CAGR
- 15.05%
- 1Y, 3Y, 5Y, 10Y blended CAGR
- First tracked close
- $35.04
- August 21, 2006
- History span
- 20 yrs
- Aug 21, 2006 to Aug 18, 2026 · 5,029 closes
- Latest tracked close
- $961.35
- August 18, 2026
- All-time high
- $1096.50
- May 19, 2026
- All-time low
- $38.17
- March 6, 2009
- History source
- Long range
- Yahoo Finance
Valuation map
Risk and scale
Less volatile than the market
Pro formula stack
Ratios investors search for after the headline quote.
These are TECHi-computed from overview, income statement, balance sheet, and cash-flow rows when market-data sources expose the ingredients.
- EV / revenue
- 1.55
- Enterprise value / TTM revenue
- Earnings yield
- 2.06%
- Inverse P/E
- ROIC approx.
- 54.96%
- NOPAT / invested capital
- TECHi quality score
- 4 / 7
- 7-point profitability, cash, leverage, and trend check
Quality and capital returns
TTM revenue / market cap
Balance-sheet and reinvestment reads
0.00 means net cash
Distress and optionality read
COST Altman Z-score: 8.79.
TECHi computes a non-financial-company Altman-style score from working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market value, liabilities, revenue, and assets. It is not a bankruptcy prediction, but it gives pro readers a fast stress screen that most quote pages do not show beside live valuation metrics.
- Altman Z-score
- 8.79
- Higher = stronger stress profile
- Net cash / share
- $29.94
- Cash minus debt, per share
- Working capital
- $3.05B
- Current assets minus current liabilities
Valuation read
COST trades at 48.59× trailing earnings.
A trailing P/E above 30 means the market is paying up for COST. That premium has to be earned with above-average revenue or earnings growth — pair this with the forward P/E (—) and the PEG ratio (—) before forming a view.
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 12.88%
- Operating margin
- 3.82%
- Net margin
- 3.01%
- Return on equity
- 28.27%
- Return on assets
- 10.23%
- Debt / equity
- 0.18
- Current ratio
- 1.07
- >1 = covers near-term liabilities
- Beta (5Y)
- 0.86
Margin profile
Profitability read
COST converts 3.0% of revenue into net income.
Sub-8% net margins leave little cushion for input-cost shocks. Look for the operating-margin trend and the gross-margin floor — a stable gross with a recovering operating margin is the cleanest setup.
Per-share & range
- Dividend yield
- 0.61%
- Forward yield
- Shares outstanding
- 443.48M
- 52w high
- $1096.50
- 52w low
- $844.06
Corporate actions
Stock split history
Adjusted for all historical splits
- Split events
- 0
Reported fundamentals
Company statistics fields
These figures come from the latest issuer filings and live quote-derived formulas.
- Revenue (TTM)
- $264.24B
- TECHi unified data
- Book value
- $72.35
- TECHi unified data
- Revenue / share
- $595.84
- TECHi unified data
- 50-day average
- $949.03
- TECHi unified data
- 200-day average
- $956.26
- TECHi unified data
Frequently asked
Common questions.
What is Costco Wholesale Corporation's market capitalization?
Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) currently shows a fresh market-cap field of $428.8 billion.
What is COST's P/E ratio?
COST's available trailing P/E field is 48.59.
Where do TECHi's COST statistics come from?
The Statistics page uses TECHi's unified market-data layer and omits fields whose winning source is missing or explicitly stale.