COST — Costco Wholesale Corporation
Consumer Defensive · ETF XLP · as of 2026-09-23
Daily · EMA 10 / 20 / 50 · SMA 200 · VolPress: buy/sell split, 20-SMA, white dot = above avg · · E = earnings · RS vs SPY ⓘ · ● RS new high ⓘ
Costco Wholesale Corporation
NMS
Consumer Defensive · Discount Stores
Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. It offers merchandise, including sundries, dry groceries, candies, coolers, freezers, deli, liquor, and tobacco; non-food merchandise comprising appliances, small electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, lawn and garden, s...
Price & today
$904.70
ATR(14) 13.67 (1.51%)
| Stock today | +0.59% |
| Sector ETF today | -0.36% |
| Residual (stock-specific) | +0.95% |
Sector correlation
| 20-day correlation with XLP | 0.61 |
| 60-day correlation with XLP | 0.76 |
| Status | normal |
Decoupling fires when 60d corr − 20d corr > 0.20: stock used to track its sector but the relationship has weakened recently.
Technicals
| 10 EMA | $903.89 |
| 20 EMA | $913.60 |
| 50 EMA | $931.63 |
| EMA stack | BEARISH |
| RSI(14) | 41.9 |
| 52-week high distance | -17.49% |
| 52-week low distance | +7.18% |
Signals
| Market F&G | 44.9 |
| Bull% | 13.8% |
| OVTLYR status | SELL (16d) |
| Sector rank | #34 |
| Next earnings | 2026-09-24 (TNS, 0d) |
MarketSmith metrics - our compute
RS Rating
37.7
ADR%
1.3
RMV (tight)
35.0
Ext (ATR>20EMA)
-0.7
Rel Vol
115.0%
U/D 50d
0.79
U/D 25d
0.76
Accum/Dist 25d
4 / 6
EPS YoY
+15.0%
LoD dist
83.0
Off 52w High
17.5%
Above 52w Low
7.2%
1W / 1M
+1.2 / -6.9
Avg $Vol 50d
1.86B
Mkt Cap (B)
401.2
Trend 8/8
no
Sector XLP
-1.1% 1W
Base len (VCP)
10wk (5/22)
Coil (base shape)
85TVPX
What do these abbreviations mean?
- RS Rating
- - IBD-style relative strength vs SPY (weighted 3/6/9/12-mo). 70+ = leaders pool, 80+ = strong.
- ADR%
- - average daily range over 20 days. 4%+ = the fast movers the playbook prefers (selection order, not a gate).
- RMV (tight)
- - Relative Measured Volatility, 15 bars, scaled 0-100. <15 = tight coiled base (green), <35 moderate, high = loose/expanding - not a base right now.
- Ext (ATR>20EMA)
- - how many ATRs price sits above its 20-EMA. ≤1 = in value (green), >2 = extended/chasing (red) - prefer a pullback.
- Rel Vol
- - latest volume vs the 50-day average. 100% = normal; 140%+ = breakout confirmation.
- U/D 50d / 25d
- - up-day vs down-day volume over the window. 1.1+ = net accumulation (institutions buying); under 0.9 on the 25d = net selling.
- Accum/Dist 25d
- - heavy-volume up days vs heavy-volume down days in the last 25 sessions (close moved 0.2%+ on above-average volume). The institutional-participation footprint; 5+ distribution days = O'Neil caution line.
- LoD dist
- - close distance above the day low in % of ATR (100 = one full ATR off the low). High = strong close.
- Off/Above 52w
- - trend-template legs: within 25% of the 52-week high, at least 25% above the 52-week low.
- Trend 8/8
- - all 8 Minervini Trend Template criteria pass. Discovery floor, NOT an entry signal - entries come from the VCP pivot.
- Base len (VCP)
- - weeks since the VCP base started on the latest scan. 10wk+ bases carry the edge; short stacked bases test below random.
Fundamentals & valuation - reference, not entry inputs
P/E (TTM)
45.5
Fwd P/E
39.9
PEG
4.6
Price/Book
25.4
Profit margin
3.0%
ROE
29.1%
Debt/Equity
60.3
Rev growth
+21.5%
Analyst target
$1077 (+19%)
Analyst rating
BUY
Institutional %
74.0%
Insider %
0.2%
Float %
98.3%
Valuation and analyst figures are Yahoo company stats (weekly refresh, ~3,000 larger names - blanks are honest gaps); logo, employees, website and IPO date are Massive company reference. Momentum/VCP entries do not use valuation - this card is context so you do not have to leave the page.
Company data - context read, not entry inputs
Industry rank
-
Industry
Discount Stores
Float
436.0M
Float turnover 20d
0.5%
Avg $Vol 20d / 50d
1.94B / 1.86B
Days to cover
2.5
Short % float
1.6%
Institutional %
74.0%
Weinstein stage
4
Float, short interest and institutional % come from Yahoo company stats, refreshed weekly for ~3,000 larger names - a blank means Yahoo does not publish the figure for this stock, not that it is zero. Dollar volume and float turnover are computed from our own price bars; industry rank from our rotation data; stage from the weekly chart.
Quarterly EPS - earnings acceleration
A dash in %Chg is deliberate: the year-ago figure was a loss, so a growth % would be meaningless. A dash in Sales means we have no revenue figure for that quarter - read it as a gap in our data, not as zero revenue.
| Quarter | EPS ($) | %Chg YoY | Sales ($M) | %Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep-24 | 5.15 | +6% | - | - |
| Dec-24 | 4.04 | +13% | 62,151.0 | +8% |
| Mar-25 | 4.02 | +8% | 63,723.0 | +9% |
| May-25 | 4.28 | +13% | 63,205.0 | +8% |
| Sep-25 | 5.87 | +14% | - | - |
| Dec-25 | 4.50 | +11% | 67,307.0 | +8% |
| Mar-26 | 4.58 | +14% | 69,597.0 | +9% |
| May-26 | 4.93 | +15% | 70,527.0 | +12% |
† = SEC carries this same fiscal quarter under a second period-end with a materially different figure (hover for it) - a restatement, merger recast or successor-period split; %Chg is blanked when the two are more than 15% apart. It fires only when the two period-ends DISAGREE, so it is a floor, not a guarantee that the rest of the column shares one basis · ‡ = the revenue concept changed from the previous quarter WITH A FIGURE (hover for both) - a blank row in between is skipped, as the eye does - a step at that row is a change of basis, not necessarily of business · EPS = Yahoo
eps_actual (the figure MarketSmith/Deepvue show) - whether a given quarter is GAAP or excludes a one-off follows the filing, so it can sit either side of another vendor's number; AAPL's Oct-24 row, the Sep-2024 fiscal quarter, is $0.97 here - GAAP, including the EU tax charge - where TradingView's year implies $1.64 · Sales ($M) = SEC EDGAR quarterly revenue (fiscal Q4 derived as FY minus 9-mo) · quarter = report month · %Chg blank = prior-year base under $0.05 (not meaningful).Recent news - our DB (Finnhub + OVTLYR)
- Sep 23 + Top Research Reports for Micron, Costco & Interactive Brokers Zacks Investment Research
- Sep 22 + Here's What the Fed's Interest Rate Hike Means for Costco, Walmart, and Target (and My Top Pick to Buy Now) The Motley Fool
- Sep 21 + U.S.-China Talks Seem Successful: ETF Areas in Focus Zacks Investment Research
- Sep 18 + 1 Incredible Reason to Buy Costco Stock Before It Reports Earnings on Sept. 24. The Motley Fool
- Sep 18 · TGT vs. COST: Which Stock Should Value Investors Buy Now? Zacks Investment Research
- Sep 18 + Better Buy for Cautious Investors: Eli Lilly vs Costco The Motley Fool
- Sep 16 + I've Analyzed Hundreds of Stocks in 7 Years. Here's My Step-by-Step System for Researching Any Company Before Buying. The Motley Fool
- Sep 16 + My Top 5 Favorite Stocks for an Uncertain Market The Motley Fool