How is Costco (COST) doing?

Costco is a company in the discount stores industry, based in Issaquah, WA, worth $419.9B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Middling

Costco shares are up 4% over the past year, 11 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Turning Up. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 48th percentile on market beat, the 12th on staying power and the 74th on business growth. It appears on 6 of our dashboards.

$946.92+4% in a yearWorth $419.9B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

COST against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Costco +4%, the S&P 500 +16%.

COSTS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Turning Up

LaggingErraticGrowingBought

Lagging and erratic, but the business is growing and buyers are arriving.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Turning Up this month; Show-Me Grower before that.

Also Turning Up (51 in all): ONON · OLLI · MSA · PPG · SF · EHC

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Retail, 41 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Consumer-discretionary retail — the spending-cycle book.

COST, past year+4%18 of 41 in the group

Rest of the group−1%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Costco is +4% over the past year, against −1% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 18th of 41 in Retail.

COSTRest of the group

Best in the groupTGT Target+70%ROST Ross Stores+46%CROX Crocs+42%

Worst in the groupBRBR BellRing Brands−75%CELH Celsius−55%NKE Nike−50%

Its closest rivalsBJ BJ's Wholesale Club+11%WMT Walmart+8%TGT Target+70%KR Kroger−10%ACI Albertsons−30%

All retail and apparel stocks ›Retail on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Costco typically moves 1.6% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 95% of large US stocks.

Typical day1.6%about $14.74 a share

Its usual1.9%about usual, 0.8× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5001.7×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±3.1%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−18%now 13% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks30%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.5

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 1.88%

COST on our dashboards

Every question where Costco appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with COST highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
How much do the biggest companies dominate? What’s leading	–	23 of 25	Weight 0.6% · Value $420.8B · 1Y return 0%
Which companies are worth the most? What’s leading	–	28 of 50	Market value $419.9B · Places, 1Y −6 · Value, 1Y +3%
Which stocks climb with the least drama? Leading stocks	80Smooth	42 of 60	Return per swing 0.94 · Return a year +19% · Volatility 20%
Which companies grow earnings every year? Business quality	99A decade+	6 of 60	Years of growth 10 years · Growth, 5Y +13% a yr · Latest EPS 20.76
Which companies have more cash than debt? Value	94Net cash	25 of 60	Net cash $16.6B · % of value +4% · Debt payback 0.5 yrs
Which dividends are growing fastest? Dividends and buybacks	83Fast	49 of 60	5Y +13% a yr · Latest raise +13% · Yield 0.6%

Go deeper on Stox

COST’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see COST’s full profile on Stox.

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