Is the price fair?
What COST's price assumes
Costco trades at 49.8× earnings against 19.8× for the median Discount Stores name, more expensive than its own group.
49.8
Trailing P/E · Discount Stores median 19.8 · 2.51× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 1.53
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.2%
Free cash flow yield · Discount Stores median 3.6%
- Growth the price implies
- +17%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +17% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +27% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q2
- 13.4
- EV / EBIT2026-Q2
- 38.8
- EV / sales2026-Q2
- 1.48
- Consumer Defensive median P/E116 names
- 20.0
- Discount Stores median P/E9 names
- 19.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $9.23B
- Market capitalisation
- $421.9B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +11%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +27%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Consumer Defensive
Ranks #56 of 110 by Smart Score