COSTCostco

Consumer Defensive

$945.02-0.35% 1Y

$945.02

$847.6152 weeks$1.1K

Is the price fair?

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A demanding price: priced for +17% a year vs +11% a year delivered and rich vs its sector.

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What the price assumes~+17% a year

Priced for ~17% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 11% a year, priced for acceleration.

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)39.1×

Sector median 16.6× across 78 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

All from derived, as of May 10, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

P/E (valuation)behind 87% of the market

FCF yieldbehind 83% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What COST's price assumes

Costco trades at 51.7× earnings against 20.3× for the median Discount Stores name, more expensive than its own group.

51.7

Trailing P/E · Discount Stores median 20.3 · 2.54× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 1.56
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to May 10, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 2.2%
Free cash flow yield · Discount Stores median 4.2%
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.