Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, discount warehouse giant Costco Wholesale (COST -0.12%) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Costco and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Costco facts
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Headquarters (founded) |
Issaquah, Wash. (1976) |
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Market Cap |
$45.9 billion |
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Industry |
Hypermarkets and supercenters |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$103.1 billion |
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Management |
CEO Craig Jelinek (since 2012) CFO Richard Galanti (since 1985) |
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Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) |
14.2% |
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Cash/Debt |
$5.7 billion/$4.9 billion |
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Dividend Yield |
1.0% |
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Competitors |
BJ's Wholesale Club Target (TGT -0.54%) Wal-Mart Stores (WMT 0.57%) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 97% of the 4,678 members who have rated Costco believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Earlier this month, one of those Fools, All-Star BearTrade, offered some consumer insight into the Costco outperform case:
The moment I enter the door my carefully scripted shopping list is immediately chucked and I am pushing that cart down the aisles filling it with whatever I come to first. It's only after leaving the store and realizing I just dropped a couple hundred dollars again that I start trying to recall if I actually picked up anything on my list. And I am not the only one who does that, the same spell seems to be cast on everyone who finally found a place to park and entered the store. ...
[L]ast quarter sales show a 9 percent increase over the previous quarter, they are expanding both in the United States and into the international markets, people love to work there and they sell those amazing muffins.
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