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Costco COST

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Costco Wholesale Corporation and its subsidiaries (Costco or the Company) began operations in 1983, in Seattle, Washington. 10-K, Item 1

Employees
355,000
Headquarters
Issaquah, WA
CEO
Roland Michael Vachris
Next results
around Dec 10, 2026
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Where each dollar of revenue went, FY2026

Revenue of $303.2B through the costs to a net profit of $9.2B · income statement of the 10-K

4% operating margin
Revenue to Gross profit: $38.9BRevenue to Cost of revenue: $264.3BGross profit to Operating profit: $11.7BGross profit to Operating expenses: $27.2BOperating profit to Net profit: $9.2BOperating profit to Tax & other: $2.5B Revenue: $303.2B REVENUE $303.2B +10% Y/Y Gross profit: $38.9B · 13% margin GROSS PROFIT $38.9B 13% margin Cost of revenue: $264.3B · 87% of revenue COST OF REVENUE $264.3B 87% of revenue Operating profit: $11.7B · 4% margin OPERATING PROFIT $11.7B 4% margin · +13% Y/Y Operating expenses: $27.2B · 9% of revenue OPERATING EXPENSES $27.2B 9% of revenue Net profit: $9.2B · 3% margin NET PROFIT $9.2B 3% margin · +14% Y/Y Tax & other: $2.5B · 1% of revenue TAX & OTHER $2.5B 1% of revenue
Gross profit $38.9B 13% margin
Operating profit $11.7B 4% margin · +13% Y/Y
Net profit $9.2B 3% margin · +14% Y/Y
The full income statement, year by year

COST among Consumer staples peers

Six ratios from the latest 10-K. Each corner is the share of 32 peers the company is above, not a score.

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Revenue growth: 10.1%, above 88% of 32 peers (their median 2.0%) REVENUE GROWTH 10.1% · above 88% Gross margin: 12.8%, above 10% of 30 peers (their median 40.5%) GROSS MARGIN 12.8% · above 10% Operating margin: 3.9%, above 18% of 28 peers (their median 14.1%) OPERATING MARGIN 3.9% · above 18% Net margin: 3.0%, above 34% of 32 peers (their median 8.8%) NET MARGIN 3.0% · above 34% FCF margin: 3.1%, above 19% of 32 peers (their median 10.7%) FCF MARGIN 3.1% · above 19% Return on capital: 21.0%, above 96% of 24 peers (their median 12.1%) RETURN ON CAPITAL 21.0% · above 96%
COST Peer median Below the median

What changed

1 accounting fact worth reading about.

Risk factors
No new paragraphs, or fewer than two 10-Ks to compare
10-K Item 1A
Receivables growing faster than revenue
Receivables +23.6% vs revenue +10.1% (+13.5 pts)
10-K · XBRL
Accounting checks
10 other checks clear, 1 worth a look
10-K · XBRL
Insiders
No open-market buys in the last 90 days
Form 4
Filings
2 in the last 30 days
EDGAR

Each row opens the detail with the quote and the filing. A row is a change worth reading, not a verdict.

Accounting checks

11 checks on the latest 10-K. Checks, not verdicts.

How it works

1fact worth reading about the other 10 checks found nothing to note

  • Receivables growing faster than revenue
    Receivables +23.6% vs revenue +10.1% (+13.5 pts)
  • Cash from operations $15.8B vs net income $9.2B (FY ending Aug 30, 2026)
9 more checks with nothing to note
  • Inventory +6.7% vs revenue +10.1% (-3.5 pts)
  • Same auditor in both 10-Ks: KPMG LLP
  • No statement of substantial doubt about going concern
  • No 8-K item 4.02 in the last 2 years
  • No NT 10-K or NT 10-Q in the last 2 years
  • The same matters as last year: Sufficiency of audit evidence over United States and Canada revenue
  • No sentence in the 10-K concludes that controls were not effective because of a material weakness
  • No 8-K item 2.06 in the last 2 years
  • No 8-K item 1.03 in the last 2 years

In their words

No new paragraphs in Risk Factors

No new paragraphs in Risk Factors, or fewer than two 10-Ks to compare.

New risk paragraphs, against peers

Latest 10-K of each, Consumer staples companies closest in revenue

Paragraphs in Risk Factors with nothing like them in the company's 10-K the year before. A count of text, not of risk.

Financial performance

Last 4 fiscal years · 10-K XBRL

All years
MetricFY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026
Revenue$242.3B$254.5B$275.2B$303.2B
Net income$6.3B$7.4B$8.1B$9.2B
Operating cash flow$11.1B$11.3B$13.3B$15.8B
Free cash flow$6.7B$6.6B$7.8B$9.4B

Revenue, FY2017 to FY2026

Ten fiscal years, each from its own 10-K · XBRL · USD

$303.2B ▲ 10.1% in FY2026

FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026
Every number, year by year

Recent filings

2 filings in the last 30 days · SEC EDGAR

All filings

About the company

Costco, Issaquah, WA · from the 10-K filed Oct 7, 2026

Costco Wholesale Corporation and its subsidiaries (Costco or the Company) began operations in 1983, in Seattle, Washington. We are principally engaged in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States (U.S.) and Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom (U.K.), Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Sweden, Iceland, and New Zealand. Costco operated 939, 914, and 890 warehouses worldwide at August 30, 2026, August 31, 2025, and September 1, 2024. The Company operates e-commerce sites in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the U.K., Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, and China. Our common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, under the symbol “COST.”

Headquarters
Issaquah, WA
Country
United States
Reports in
USD
Listed on
Nasdaq
Fiscal year ends
August 30
Last results
Sep 24, 2026
Incorporated in
WA

Employees, at the top of the page: "At the end of 2026, we employed 355,000 employees worldwide" (10-K). Address and exchange: SEC's company file.

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