COST (COST) Stock

About COST

COST is led by CEO Ron Vachris, employs 333,000 people, headquartered in Issaquah, US, publicly traded since 1986.

COST stock trades at $939.96 with a market capitalization of $416.85B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 48.02, price-to-book of 12.67, price-to-sales of 1.44. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $844.06 and $1096.50, and currently trades 14.3% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.61%.

On profitability, COST generates a return on equity (ROE) of 28.27% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 25.34%, an operating margin of 3.82%, a net profit margin of 3.01%.

In its most recent fiscal year, COST reported annual revenue of $275.2B, net profit of $8.1B, revenue has compounded at 10.5% a year over the last five years, profit at 15.1% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 1.03, total assets of $77.1B, $14.2B in cash and equivalents.

COST has a beta of 0.86.