Costco Wholesale COST Earnings yield
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Costco Wholesale’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Costco Wholesale’s 10-Q, filed June 3, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Costco Wholesale's earnings yield?
- Costco Wholesale (COST) reported earnings yield of 2.1% in Q1 2026.
- How has Costco Wholesale's earnings yield changed year-over-year?
- Costco Wholesale's earnings yield increased by 20.0% year-over-year, from 1.7% to 2.1%.
- What is the long-term trend for Costco Wholesale's earnings yield?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Costco Wholesale's earnings yield has grown at a -9.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 10.7% to 7.1%.
- What does earnings yield mean?
- The company's annual profit as a percentage of its market price — the flip side of the P/E.
- How do you interpret earnings yield?
- Higher means more earnings per dollar invested. Easy to compare directly against bond yields to judge the relative attractiveness of equity.
- How does earnings yield compare across companies?
- Comparable across profitable companies and against fixed-income yields; undefined when earnings are negative.