Is it safe?
Can COST take a bad year?
Costco holds $14.3B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
$14.3B
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Altman Z-score
- 9.79
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 77.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $5.67B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $20.0B
- Net cash
- $14.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $12.8B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $10.4B
- Debt / equity
- 0.17×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.44×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 21%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −31%
- Below its 52-week high
- −13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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