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Look up "consumer defensive" stocks in your favorite screener and sort the list by market cap. Walmart tops that list with a $734 billion market value on Dec. 27, followed by Costco at $415 billion.
Costco's (NASDAQ: COST) excellent customer value proposition has earned its customer loyalty. Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Jan. 2, 2025. The video was published on Jan. 4, 2025.
Data collected from Finviz on 12/10/2024. Chart by author. TTM = trailing 12 months. These ratios are enough to keep most value investors away from Costco's stock at the moment.
Costco's price-to-sales ratio is around 1.5 today compared to a five-year average of roughly 1. The price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is just over 50 compared to a longer-term average of about 40.
The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Costco Wholesale wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made ...
The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Costco Wholesale wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made ...
The standard valuation metric is usually the trailing 12-month price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, and Costco stock is trading at 57 times trailing 12-month earnings, or near its highest-ever levels ...
BJ PE Ratio (Forward) data by YCharts The case for Costco Wholesale. As good as the results from BJ's have been, Costco's growth trends are even stronger. The company posted its monthly operating ...