With 2.21 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.03 million shares. During the session, the Discount Stores company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $1063.0 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $1044.2. The 52-week range on COST shows that it touched its highest point at $1043.09 and its lowest point at $697.27 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $1058.75. With its current market cap of 466.53 billion, COST has annualized dividend of $3.48 while the current yield stands at 0.33%. COST paid its most recent dividend on 1730419200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730419200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.82.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of COST was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.35%, but this was up by 13.90% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 18.61% while six-month performance rose 28.66%. The stock gained 47.79% in the past year, while it has gained 14.70% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for COST yields 17.03 with Next year EPS estimates of 19.95. For the next quarter, that number is 4.08. This implies an EPS growth rate of 9.77% for this year and 9.74% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.26% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 14.93%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 443.94 million COST shares are outstanding with a float of 442.87 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 6.59 million, which was 149.0 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. Ron M. Vachris as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Richard A. Galanti serves as its Executive VP & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.71518 of COST’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-01, COST reported revenue of $62151000000.0 and operating income of $2196000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $2848000000.0 and diluted EPS was $4.04.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for COST since 23 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 17 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 6 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With COST analysts setting a high price target of 1175.0 and a low target of 560.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 1034.7281. Based on these targets, COST could surge 11.8% to reach the target high and fall by -46.72% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -1.55% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $16.37428 being high and $16.00418 being low. For COST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $16.22424. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $4.64 and the low estimate is $3.8. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $4.24.
