Costco Wholesale Corporation

COST stock score: 66/100

$998.31 · +0.37% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
65
Fundamental
66
News
51

The reading

Costco Wholesale (COST) scores 66 out of 100, which reads bullish, higher than 89% of Consumer Defensive stocks and 91% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 65, fundamentals 66.

Among the fundamentals, Revenue Quality (Quarterly) at 100 and Earnings Quality (Yearly) at 95 score highest, while Fair Value at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 70 and contrarian oscillators 23 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 51; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 24, 2026 the composite has ranged from 56 to 67, and it is up 4 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward COST’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

66

Pulling it up

  • Revenue Quality (Quarterly)100

    Revenue Quality (Quarterly) evaluates recent revenue performance using trailing 12-month data from quarterly reports.

  • Earnings Quality (Yearly)95

    Annual earnings quality examines the durability and cash-backed nature of yearly profits.

  • Debt to Equity94

    Debt-to-Equity ratio measures financial leverage by comparing total debt to shareholder equity.

Holding it back

  • Fair Value0

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • PEG Ratio4

    PEG ratio divides the P/E ratio by earnings growth rate.

  • EV/EBITDA28

    EV/EBITDA compares the whole company's value, debt included, with its operating earnings before depreciation.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

64

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Ichimoku Cloud100

    Ichimoku Cloud is a comprehensive indicator showing support/resistance, trend direction, and momentum.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (50)0

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

  • RSI (14)0

    Relative Strength Index (14-period) measures momentum by comparing recent gains to losses.

  • Williams %R (28)4

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
68
Social Sentiment (1W)
44
Social Sentiment (3D)
39
Social Sentiment (1D)
34

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly561
Daily643
Weekly652
Monthly672
Quarterly702

Composite score, last 90 days

05010066Jul 24, 2026Oct 21, 2026Jul 24, 2026: 62Jul 25, 2026: 61Jul 26, 2026: 62Jul 27, 2026: 64Jul 28, 2026: 67Jul 29, 2026: 65Jul 30, 2026: 62Jul 31, 2026: 63Aug 1, 2026: 58Aug 2, 2026: 58Aug 3, 2026: 59Aug 4, 2026: 59Aug 5, 2026: 58Aug 6, 2026: 59Aug 7, 2026: 60Aug 8, 2026: 60Aug 9, 2026: 60Aug 10, 2026: 61Aug 11, 2026: 59Aug 12, 2026: 59Aug 13, 2026: 62Aug 14, 2026: 63Aug 15, 2026: 63Aug 16, 2026: 63Aug 17, 2026: 60Aug 18, 2026: 63Aug 19, 2026: 62Aug 20, 2026: 57Aug 22, 2026: 59Aug 23, 2026: 59Aug 24, 2026: 64Aug 25, 2026: 63Aug 26, 2026: 61Aug 27, 2026: 58Aug 28, 2026: 60Aug 29, 2026: 59Aug 30, 2026: 59Aug 31, 2026: 59Sep 1, 2026: 61Sep 2, 2026: 59Sep 3, 2026: 57Sep 4, 2026: 56Sep 5, 2026: 57Sep 6, 2026: 57Sep 7, 2026: 57Sep 8, 2026: 57Sep 9, 2026: 56Sep 10, 2026: 56Sep 11, 2026: 57Sep 12, 2026: 57Sep 13, 2026: 57Sep 14, 2026: 58Sep 15, 2026: 57Sep 16, 2026: 56Sep 17, 2026: 57Sep 18, 2026: 57Sep 19, 2026: 57Sep 20, 2026: 57Sep 21, 2026: 57Sep 22, 2026: 58Sep 23, 2026: 59Sep 24, 2026: 58Sep 25, 2026: 59Sep 26, 2026: 59Sep 27, 2026: 59Sep 28, 2026: 61Sep 29, 2026: 61Sep 30, 2026: 60Oct 1, 2026: 59Oct 2, 2026: 60Oct 3, 2026: 61Oct 4, 2026: 60Oct 5, 2026: 61Oct 6, 2026: 62Oct 7, 2026: 63Oct 8, 2026: 64Oct 9, 2026: 64Oct 10, 2026: 63Oct 11, 2026: 63Oct 12, 2026: 65Oct 13, 2026: 65Oct 14, 2026: 66Oct 15, 2026: 66Oct 16, 2026: 66Oct 17, 2026: 66Oct 18, 2026: 66Oct 19, 2026: 66Oct 20, 2026: 66Oct 21, 2026: 66
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Key facts

Market cap
$442.4B
Sector
Consumer Defensive
Industry
Discount Stores
Beta
0.87
Risk grade (1–10)
1
Next earnings
Dec 10, 2026

Discount Stores peers

CompanyMarket capScore
WMT Walmart$937.5B61
TGT Target$69.2B61
DG Dollar General$29.1B63
DLTR Dollar Tree$23.5B68
BJ BJ's Wholesale Club$12.9B66
TBBB BBB Foods$7.0B61

Questions

What is COST's stock score today?

COST scores 66/100 (Bullish) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 65, fundamental 66, and news sentiment 51, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is COST a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 66 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean bullish today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the COST score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Consumer Defensive ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.