Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)

COST · Consumer Staples · United States

Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) is a company in the Consumer Staples sector, based in United States. The stock is held in 23 ETFs we track – with its largest weight of 13.67 % in XUCT (msci-usa-consumer-staples). Anyone holding one of these ETFs also owns a small indirect stake in Costco Wholesale Corporation.

Very high ETF coverage: 23 of the 95 ETFs we cover hold Costco Wholesale Corporation, spread across 11 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 90.2 % of the 4,334 stocks we cover.

Held in23 ETFs

Highest weight13.67 %

Indices11

SectorConsumer Staples

CountryUnited States

ISINUS22160K1051

WKN888351

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Price chart

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Performance

Performance
Year to date	+3.6 %	1 year	-6.1 %
1 month	-6.3 %	3 months	-7.4 %
Calendar year 2025	-5.9 %

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Measured in euros, Costco Wholesale Corporation returned +5.6 % year to date and -3.9 % over one year. The gap to the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone: each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for the same day.

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Risk metrics

Max drawdown-21.1 %

Volatility p.a.20.6 %

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Below peak-18.3 %

Beta to S&P 500-0.14

Correlation to S&P 500-0.09

The close on Sep 16, 2026 was 18.3 % below the highest close since Jul 11, 2024, reached on May 19, 2026. Over the last 252 trading days, on days when the S&P 500 rose or fell 1 %, Costco Wholesale Corporation moved on average 0.14 % in the opposite direction. The correlation of -0.09 shows how reliable that average is: the broad market explained only a small share of the daily moves.

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Correlated with

The strongest co-movers on top, the most inverse below. Low or negative values improve portfolio diversification.

Correlated with
Instrument	r	−1 … +1
Walmart Inc.	+0.68
Kroger Co.	+0.60
PepsiCo Inc.	+0.58
Republic Services Inc.	+0.57
Coca-Cola Company	+0.54
Waste Management Inc.	+0.54
FLEX Ltd.	-0.51
Micron Technology Inc.	-0.51
S&P 500 Informationstechnologie	-0.50

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Key financials

Latest reported fiscal year (FY2025, period end 2025-08-31) as filed with the SEC.

Revenue275.2 bn $

Net income8.1 bn $

Diluted EPS18.21 $

Net margin2.9 %

Return on equity26.7 %

Equity ratio36.6 %

Revenue growth+8.2 %

Revenue and profit by fiscal year
Fiscal year	Revenue	Net income	Margin
FY2023	242.3	6.3	2.6 %
FY2024	254.5	7.4	2.9 %
FY2025	275.2	8.1	2.9 %

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Held in these ETFs

Held in these ETFs
ETF	Index	Weight	per €1,000 in the ETF
XUCT / XUCS	msci-usa-consumer-staples	13.67 %	€136.70
WCOS	msci-world-consumer-staples	8.97 %	€89.70
XDWS	msci-world-consumer-staples	8.94 %	€89.40
EXXT	nasdaq-100	1.78 %	€17.80
XNAS	nasdaq-100	1.78 %	€17.80
XDEQ	msci-world-quality	0.80 %	€8.00
SPYL / SPY5	sp500	0.61 %	€6.10
SXR8	sp500	0.61 %	€6.10
XD9U / XD9D	msci-usa	0.61 %	€6.10
EUNL	msci-world	0.44 %	€4.40
XDWD / XDWL	msci-world	0.44 %	€4.40
SWWD	msci-world	0.43 %	€4.30
SPPW	msci-world	0.43 %	€4.30
WIMI	msci-world-imi	0.39 %	€3.90
SPYY	msci-acwi	0.39 %	€3.90
IUSQ	msci-acwi	0.39 %	€3.90
SPYI / SPSA	msci-acwi-imi	0.34 %	€3.40
XDEB	msci-world-minimum-volatility	0.33 %	€3.30

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The last column turns the weight into euros: this much of €1,000 invested in one of these funds is allocated to Costco Wholesale Corporation as of the fund's latest holdings list.

Weight in EUNL since 2019

Sep 30, 2019Sep 16, 2026

In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, Costco Wholesale Corporation had a weight of 0.30 % on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.44 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 0.61 % on Mar 31, 2025. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price relative to the other index members, and it also shifts when the index provider changes the composition.

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How much Costco Wholesale Corporation overlaps with other holdings in a portfolio is shown by the Portfolio X-Ray and the ETF overlap check.

Stocks with similar ETF exposure

Names that reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Costco Wholesale Corporation — the figure counts the ETFs holding both.

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Key figures side by side

Key figures compared with stocks of similar ETF exposure
Stock	1 year	Volatility p.a.	Net margin	Revenue growth
Costco Wholesale Corporation	-6.1 %	20.6 %	2.9 %	+8.2 %
PepsiCo	-4.1 %	21.1 %	8.8 %	+2.3 %
Walmart	+3.9 %	24.6 %	3.1 %	+4.7 %
Monster Beverage Corporation	+34.7 %	25.9 %	–	+10.7 %
Mondelez International	-0.5 %	22.4 %	6.4 %	+5.8 %
Hershey Company	-11.7 %	28.0 %	7.6 %	+4.4 %
Church & Dwight	+4.4 %	21.7 %	11.9 %	+1.6 %
Procter & Gamble Company	-7.0 %	19.1 %	19.0 %	+0.3 %
Colgate-Palmolive Company	+6.8 %	21.3 %	10.5 %	+1.4 %

Return and volatility from our daily closing prices in US dollars; margin and growth from the latest SEC annual filing. Fiscal years do not all end on the same date.