Costco Wholesale Corp

NASDAQ: COST
$886.99
-$3.97 (-0.4%)
Closing Price on October 29, 2024

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McDonald’s (MCD) has an increase in same-store sales for October of 6.9%. Overall system-wides sales were up 14.2%. In the U.S., comparable sales climbed 5.4% as customers continue to visit...
CostCo (COST) reported net sales of $5.21 billion for the month of October, the four weeks ended November 4, 2007, an increase of 13 percent from $4.63 billion in the same four-week period last year....
Apple (AAPL) always beats earnings forecasts. In the last quarter, it hit revenue of $6.22 billion and had a profit of $1.01 a shares. It sold 10.2 million iPods, 1.1 million iPhones and almost 2.2...
This was a long and crazy week for stock traders, but the Bond weasels got Monday off and only had a four-day work week.  Thursday was the mystery tank day when the beleaguered tech stocks dove,...
Costco (COST) turned in the kind of numbers that are not supposed to get posted in a retailing recession. Net sales for the 16-week fourth quarter ended September 2, 2007, increased 3%, to $20.09...
According to Reuters, economists cut forecasts for US growth for the third month in a row. Reuters writes that IBM (IBM) and Second Life will work on ways to eventually let people use the a single...
Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ:COST) reports earnings Wednesday Pre-Market with First Call looking for $0.83 EPS on $20.7 Billion revenues.  We already saw the net sales estimated one-month ago at...
Online retailer Amazon (AMZN) hit a 52-week high last week. So did Priceline (PCLN), Expedia (EXPE), and eBay (EBAY). Even Overstock (OSTK) made the list. On the 52-week low side of the ledger, Wall...
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WMI) announced a major national initiative to expand its roster of landfill gas to energy (LFGTE) facilities. The program will result in the creation of an additional 60...
Wal-Mart’s (NYSE:WMT) new ad campaign is starting today.  The company is ditching its "Always Low Prices" in favor of a new slogan:  "Save Money. Live Better."  Wal-Mart probably just got tired...
Just yesterday and the day before, the tone was looking to be that sub-prime fallout and the recent tightening on credit was helping to squash Joe Q. Consumer in the U.S.  Yesterday, CostCo (COST)...
You have to love a morning where Target (NYSE:TGT) and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) have big news out on the same day.  This morning both retail giants released August Same-Store-Sales.  Surprisingly, both...
CostCo (COST) same-store sales rose only 2% during the last month. Comparable sales for the four-week retail-reporting month of August, the 16-week fourth quarter and the 52-week fiscal year 2007 are...
Wal-Mart (WMT) must be getting sick of not knowing what is going on out there in the markets in which it competes. Wall St. would think it would have a good idea, since the company represents such a...
This Week’s Top Seven Issues (June 8, 2007) 1) THE ROLLER-COASTER MARKETThanks a lot Bill Gross.  You’re sounding more like Greenspan now that you have him on your advisory board at PIMCO. ...