Costco Wholesale Corp

NASDAQ: COST
$883.11
+$7.44 (+0.8%)
Closing Price on October 4, 2024

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Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one...
By Jon Ogg Costco Wholesale (COST) reported earnings this morning the same day as BJ’s Wholesale (BJ).  Even Big Lots (BIG) got in on the earnings game.  Considering that we are in the midst of...
Costco (COST) has built its revenue over the years by selling quality goods for low prices. That is in contrast to Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT) which have reputations for selling cheap products...
This coming week we have many key issues coming front and center in our list of “Unusual Suspects.”  Some are ongoing issues with mergers and the waves of earnings reports seem to be quieting...
Earnings season has mostly wound down.  We have many key business events and key economic events scheduled for next week.  In asset sales and merger land, we will be paying close attention to...
Short selling is seen for many reasons, but universally traders tend to track short selling to track the biggest changes in the short interest twice each month.  Whether these are hedges, forward...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its holdings as of the close of business for December 31, 2009, so that being said these are Warren Buffett’s most recent holdings going into...
It is cause for worry when the world’s largest retailer cuts 11,200 people right after a rough holiday sales season. Wal-Mart will fire that many people at its Sam’s Club division. The warehouse...
CostCo’s (NASDAQ:COST) December numbers look like a strong sign that retail sales are recovering, at least in the affluent end of the warehould sales business. CostCo reported net sales of $8.26...
Reuters:   US  business investment is rising. Reuters:   Another outage shut down RIM’s (NYSE:RIMM) BlackBerry network. Reuters:   Geithner said tight lending could hurt US economy....
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) rose over 1.8% to a yearly high of $58.92 after it was announced that drinks made by the company will be sold again by Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) following...
This was a wild week, and perhaps a disappointment that the news did not propel stocks even higher.  There were many key movers though, and we have a very active panel of very active and widely held...
A new survey from ChangeWave shows that holiday spending has improved in 2009 compared with 2008 and purchasing activity at Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is soaring. The study of 2,954 consumers was...
Black Friday is under 48 hours away.  We have seen much data and much analysis out there on the topic, but there are two fairly easy conclusions here…. well, make it three.  First is that...
We are right at a week away from the highly awaited Black Friday for 2009’s holiday and Christmas season.  As you likely know, this is THE day that retailers look forward to all year and...