CO

COST COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP

2026Q2 · CUSIP 22160K105 · Sector: Consumer

Exiting + falling

Funds leaving and price falling — historically weak for the next six months

Funds that own it
4,230
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net decrease in holders
5
Last quarter 4,235 → now 4,230
How unusual is that
Bottom 20%
Stronger than only 14% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

4,230 funds held COST at the end of 2026Q2, down 5 from the quarter before. Buying is stronger than only 14.4% of US stocks, and the price fell over the same quarter — funds leaving and price weakness at the same time. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $303.2B(YoY +10.1%), the P/E is 48.4x, return on equity is 25.8%. COST has had 39 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +10.5% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Consumer sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=881 2013Q4: holders=921 2014Q1: holders=915 2014Q2: holders=928 2014Q3: holders=945 2014Q4: holders=1051 2015Q1: holders=1081 2015Q2: holders=1084 2015Q3: holders=1088 2015Q4: holders=1166 2016Q1: holders=1159 2016Q2: holders=1153 2016Q3: holders=1160 2016Q4: holders=1258 2017Q1: holders=1253 2017Q2: holders=1295 2017Q3: holders=1276 2017Q4: holders=1446 2018Q1: holders=1445 2018Q2: holders=1475 2018Q3: holders=1532 2018Q4: holders=1581 2019Q1: holders=1627 2019Q2: holders=1665 2019Q3: holders=1733 2019Q4: holders=1917 2020Q1: holders=1975 2020Q2: holders=2002 2020Q3: holders=2093 2020Q4: holders=2283 2021Q1: holders=2282 2021Q2: holders=2312 2021Q3: holders=2384 2021Q4: holders=2753 2022Q1: holders=2791 2022Q2: holders=2709 2022Q3: holders=2744 2022Q4: holders=2865 2023Q1: holders=2882 2023Q2: holders=2978 2023Q3: holders=3015 2023Q4: holders=3285 2024Q1: holders=3359 2024Q2: holders=3466 2024Q3: holders=3535 2024Q4: holders=3888 2025Q1: holders=3902 2025Q2: holders=3960 2025Q3: holders=3890 2025Q4: holders=4100 2026Q1: holders=4235 2026Q2: holders=4230 -369 -184.5 +0 +184.5 +369 79226204447 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 39 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q1 Top 1% in the market -10.6% —
2025Q4 Top 1% in the market +8.9% -5.2%
2025Q2 Top 5% -5.6% +2.0%
2025Q1 Top 20% -5.0% -11.5%
2024Q4 Top 1% in the market -4.2% -8.4%
2024Q3 Top 5% +12.7% +11.0%
2024Q2 Top 1% in the market +6.3% +22.3%
2024Q1 Top 5% +9.8% +14.3%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
408
Change in large funds
+42
Total value they hold
$310.4B
Funds buying for the first time
210
Funds that sold out entirely
215
Price change that quarter
-11.3%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
61
Funds holding calls (bullish)
53

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
48.4
EPS (TTM)
$20.76
EPS YoY
+14.0%
Revenue (TTM)
$303.2B
Revenue YoY
+10.1%
Net margin
3.0%
ROE
25.8%
Debt ratio
59.8%
FCF (TTM)
$9.4B
Dividend (TTM)
$5.54
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2021-11-21: EPS 2.98 2022-02-13: EPS 2.92 2022-05-08: EPS 3.04 2022-08-28: EPS 4.20 2022-11-20: EPS 3.07 2023-02-12: EPS 3.30 2023-05-07: EPS 2.93 2023-09-03: EPS 4.86 2023-11-26: EPS 3.58 2024-02-18: EPS 3.92 2024-05-12: EPS 3.78 2024-09-01: EPS 5.28 2024-11-24: EPS 4.04 2025-02-16: EPS 4.02 2025-05-11: EPS 4.28 2025-08-31: EPS 5.87 2025-11-23: EPS 4.50 2026-02-15: EPS 4.58 2026-05-10: EPS 4.93 2026-08-30: EPS 6.75 0B 47.9B 95.7B $B 0.00 3.71 7.43 201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025202608/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 48 30 44 58 20222023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-806M1.2B3.2B 2014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $2.0B (2026-05-10)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-08-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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