Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -0.26% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $979.5.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $982.09, falling within a range of $970.13 and $988.0. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.993 whereas the PE ratio is 55.56 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $1078.23, and the low was $793.00. On the whole, COST has fluctuated by -2.65% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Costco Wholesale Corp currently standing at about $434.39 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 4.78, with its dividend yield at 0.49%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that COST’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 5.41, with the price of COST currently trading nearly -0.82% and -2.53% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 42.49, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.31% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.44%. Furthermore, Costco Wholesale Corp (COST)’s beta value is 0.97.
A comparison of Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. COST showed an intraday change of -0.26% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 6.90%%.
Data on historical trading for Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.97 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 2.11 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 443.52 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.19% of Costco Wholesale Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 69.71% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 5.13 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 2.36. According to the data, the short interest in Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) stood at 116.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 6.17 million. The stock has risen by 11.20% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the COST stock heading into the next quarter.
