Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST): Today's Featured Services Laggard
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), down 16.8%, and
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), down 16.6%.
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Costco Wholesale Corporation operates membership warehouses that offer a selection of branded and private label products in a range of merchandise categories in no-frills, self-service warehouse facilities. Costco Wholesale Corporation has a market cap of $41.92 billion and is part of the retail industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 24.9, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 16.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Costco Wholesale Corporation a buy, two analysts rate it a sell, and seven rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Costco Wholesale Corporation as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
- You can view the full Costco Wholesale Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 146.4%,
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), up 13.6%, and
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), up 12.5%, were all gainers within the services sector with
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) being today's featured services sector leader.
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