secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW (COST)
CIK:        0000909832
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000909832-24-000043
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Costco Q4 EPS $5.29, revenue $78.2B; adj. comp sales +6.9%; membership +7.3%
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- Q4 net sales $78.2B (+1.0% reported, +7.3% normalized for 16 vs 17 weeks); diluted EPS $5.29 vs $4.86.
- Adjusted comparable sales +6.9% total; US +6.3%, Canada +7.9%, other intl +9.3%; e-comm +19.5%.
- Net income $2.354B (+9.0% reported, +12.7% normalized after extra-week and $63M tax benefit).
- Membership: 76.2M paid households (+7.3%), 136.8M total cardholders; renewal rate 90.5% worldwide.
- Warehouse count 891; net +15 in FY24; FY'25 guidance of 916 total.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909832/000090983224000043/0000909832-24-000043-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909832/000090983224000043/cost-20240926.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000909832-24-000043

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