COST · Costco Wholesale Corp /New - Financials

Annual line items from SEC XBRL filings, sourced from EDGAR's Company Facts API with fallback to the quarterly Financial Statement Data Sets. See issuer overview for Form 4 activity and 10-K signals.

Price · COST

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Annual Quarterly

Income Statement

Line item	FY 2026	FY 2025	FY 2024	FY 2023	FY 2022	FY 2021
Revenue	-	$275.24B	$254.45B	$242.29B	$226.95B	$195.93B
Cost of Revenue	-	$239.89B	$222.36B	$212.59B	$199.38B	$170.68B
Gross Profit	-	$35.35B	$32.09B	$29.70B	$27.57B	$25.25B
R&D	-	-	-	-	-	-
SG&A	-	$24.97B	$22.81B	$21.59B	$19.78B	$18.46B
Total Operating Expenses	-	-	-	-	-	-
D&A	-	$2.43B	$2.24B	$2.08B	$1.90B	$1.78B
Operating Income	-	$10.38B	$9.29B	$8.11B	$7.79B	$6.71B
Interest Expense	-	$154.00M	$169.00M	$160.00M	$158.00M	$171.00M
Income Tax	-	$2.72B	$2.37B	$2.19B	$1.93B	$1.60B
Net Income	-	$8.10B	$7.37B	$6.29B	$5.84B	$5.01B
EPS - Basic	-	$18.24	$16.59	$14.18	$13.17	$11.30
EPS - Diluted	-	$18.21	$16.56	$14.16	$13.14	$11.27

Balance Sheet

Line item	FY 2026	FY 2025	FY 2024	FY 2023	FY 2022	FY 2021
Cash & Equivalents	$17.38B◇	$14.16B	$9.91B	$13.70B	$10.20B	$11.26B
Accounts Receivable	-	$3.20B	$2.72B	$2.29B	$2.24B	$1.80B
Inventory	-	$18.12B	$18.65B	$16.65B	$17.91B	$14.21B
Accounts Payable	-	$19.78B	$19.42B	$17.48B	$17.85B	$16.28B
Current Assets	$43.13B◇	$38.38B	$34.25B	$35.88B	$32.70B	$29.50B
Total Assets	$15.86B◇	$77.10B	$69.83B	$68.99B	$64.17B	$59.27B
Current Liabilities	$40.76B◇	$37.11B	$35.46B	$33.58B	$32.00B	$29.44B
Long-term Debt	$5.69B◇	$5.71B	$5.79B	$5.38B	$6.48B	$6.69B
Total Liabilities	$51.55B◇	$47.94B	$46.21B	$43.94B	$43.52B	$41.19B
Stockholders' Equity	$25.12B◇	$29.16B	$23.62B	$25.06B	$20.64B	$17.56B
Retained Earnings	-	$22.65B	$17.62B	$19.52B	$15.59B	$11.67B

Cash Flow

Line item	FY 2026	FY 2025	FY 2024	FY 2023	FY 2022	FY 2021
Operating Cash Flow	-	$13.34B	$11.34B	$11.07B	$7.39B	$8.96B
Investing Cash Flow	-	($5.31B)	($4.41B)	($4.97B)	($3.92B)	($3.54B)
Financing Cash Flow	-	($3.77B)	($10.76B)	($2.61B)	($4.28B)	($6.49B)
CapEx	-	$5.50B	$4.71B	$4.32B	$3.89B	$3.59B
Free Cash Flow	-	$7.84B	$6.63B	$6.75B	$3.50B	$5.37B

Ratios

Metric	FY 2026	FY 2025	FY 2024	FY 2023	FY 2022	FY 2021
Profitability
Gross margin	-	12.8%	12.6%	12.3%	12.1%	12.9%
Operating margin	-	3.8%	3.6%	3.3%	3.4%	3.4%
EBITDA margin	-	4.7%	4.5%	4.2%	4.3%	4.3%
Net margin	-	2.9%	2.9%	2.6%	2.6%	2.6%
Free cash flow margin	-	2.8%	2.6%	2.8%	1.5%	2.7%
FCF / Net income	-	0.97	0.90	1.07	0.60	1.07
R&D / Revenue	-	-	-	-	-	-
SG&A / Revenue	-	9.1%	9.0%	8.9%	8.7%	9.4%
Effective tax rate	-	25.1%	24.4%	25.9%	24.8%	24.2%
Return on assets	-	10.5%	10.5%	9.1%	9.1%	8.4%
Return on equity	-	27.8%	31.2%	25.1%	28.3%	28.5%
Return on invested capital	-	22.3%	23.9%	19.8%	21.6%	21.0%
Liquidity
Current ratio	1.06	1.03	0.97	1.07	1.02	1.00
Quick ratio	1.06	0.55	0.44	0.57	0.46	0.52
Cash ratio	0.43	0.38	0.28	0.41	0.32	0.38
Leverage
Debt / Equity	0.23	0.20	0.25	0.21	0.31	0.38
Debt / Assets	0.36	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.10	0.11
Debt / EBITDA	-	0.45	0.50	0.53	0.67	0.79
Interest coverage	-	67.4x	54.9x	50.7x	49.3x	39.2x
Equity multiplier	0.63	2.64	2.96	2.75	3.11	3.37
Liabilities / Assets	3.25	0.62	0.66	0.64	0.68	0.69
Efficiency
Asset turnover	-	3.57	3.64	3.51	3.54	3.31
Inventory turnover	-	13.24	11.92	12.77	11.13	12.01
Days sales outstanding	-	4d	4d	3d	4d	3d
Days inventory outstanding	-	28d	31d	29d	33d	30d
Days payable outstanding	-	30d	32d	30d	33d	35d
Cash conversion cycle	-	2d	3d	2d	4d	-1d
Valuation
P / E	-	51.8x	53.9x	38.4x	39.7x	40.0x
P / B	-	14.4x	16.8x	9.7x	11.2x	11.4x
P / S	-	1.5x	1.6x	1.0x	1.0x	1.0x
EV / EBITDA	-	32.1x	34.1x	22.9x	23.6x	23.0x
Growth
Revenue growth (YoY)	-	8.2%	5.0%	6.8%	15.8%	17.5%
Revenue CAGR (3y)	-	6.6%	9.1%	13.3%	-	11.4%
Revenue CAGR (5y)	-	10.5%	-	11.3%	12.0%	10.5%
Gross profit growth (YoY)	-	10.1%	8.0%	7.7%	9.2%	15.7%
Operating income growth (YoY)	-	11.8%	14.4%	4.1%	16.2%	23.4%
Net income growth (YoY)	-	9.9%	17.1%	7.7%	16.7%	25.1%
EPS growth (YoY)	-	10.0%	16.9%	7.8%	16.6%	24.9%
EPS CAGR (3y)	-	11.5%	13.7%	16.2%	-	16.7%
EPS CAGR (5y)	-	15.1%	-	14.8%	16.7%	16.2%
FCF growth (YoY)	-	18.2%	-1.7%	92.7%	-34.8%	-11.3%
FCF CAGR (5y)	-	5.3%	-	19.2%	-3.7%	52.9%
Book value growth (YoY)	-13.9%	23.5%	-5.7%	21.4%	17.5%	-3.9%

Sales by segment

From XBRL dimensional facts in the 10-K period ending 2025-08-31.

Business segments

$275.24B total

United States$200.05B · 72.7%

Other International$38.27B · 13.9%

Canada$36.92B · 13.4%

Product / service

$545.15B total

Product$269.91B · 49.5%

Foodand Sundries$109.56B · 20.1%

Non Foods$71.19B · 13.1%

Other$51.17B · 9.4%

Fresh Food$37.99B · 7.0%

Membership$5.32B · 1.0%

Stability scores

Piotroski F-score

FY 2026 · 9-point quality

2/9

Weak

-Net income positive
-Operating cash flow positive
-ROA improved YoY
-Cash flow > net income
✓Long-term debt decreased
✓Current ratio improved
-No share dilution
-Gross margin improved
-Asset turnover improved

Peer comparison

Same SIC group: Retail-Variety Stores

Company	Revenue (last FY)	Net margin	ROE
WMT	$713.16B	3.1%	22.0%
FIVE	$4.76B	7.5%	16.4%
PSMT	$5.27B	2.8%	11.9%
TGT	$104.78B	3.5%	22.9%
DG	$35.05B	4.3%	17.8%

Comparing COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW against the 5 most active filers in the same SIC group.

Dividends

$5.37/share trailing 12 months · +12.3% YoY

Ex-date	Per share
May 1, 2026	$1.4700
Jan 30, 2026	$1.3000
Oct 31, 2025	$1.3000
Aug 1, 2025	$1.3000
May 2, 2025	$1.3000
Feb 7, 2025	$1.1600
Nov 1, 2024	$1.1600
Jul 26, 2024	$1.1600
Apr 25, 2024	$1.1600
Feb 1, 2024	$1.0200
Dec 27, 2023	$15.0000
Nov 2, 2023	$1.0200
Aug 24, 2023	$1.0200
May 4, 2023	$1.0200
Feb 2, 2023	$0.9000
Oct 27, 2022	$0.9000
Jul 28, 2022	$0.9000
Apr 28, 2022	$0.9000
Feb 3, 2022	$0.7900
Oct 28, 2021	$0.7900
Jul 29, 2021	$0.7900
Apr 29, 2021	$0.7900
Feb 4, 2021	$0.7000
Dec 1, 2020	$10.0000

Cells marked with a small ◇ are sourced from SEC's bulk Financial Statement Data Sets, which can lose dimensional context (notably Revenue and Operating Income for issuers that report by segment). These cells will be replaced with authoritative values from the Company Facts API as the backfill completes.