secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW (COST)
CIK:        0000909832
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-09-24T20:17:37+00:00
Accession:  0000909832-26-000084
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Costco Q4 FY2026: EPS $6.75 (+15% YoY), sales $93.9B (+11.2%)
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- Q4 net income $2.998B ($6.75 diluted EPS) vs $2.610B ($5.87) prior year; includes $0.15 IEEPA tariff-refund benefit.
- Excluding IEEPA benefit, Q4 EPS grew 12.4%; net income grew 12.3%.
- FY sales $297.2B (+10.1%); FY EPS $20.76 vs $18.21; net income $9.226B.
- Total comp sales +9.4% (adj +6.7%); digitally-enabled comp +19.5%; traffic +3.3%.
- 150.4M cardholders (+3.6%); renewal rate 89.8% worldwide, 92.3% US/CN; exec members 42.3M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909832/000090983226000084/0000909832-26-000084-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909832/000090983226000084/cost-20260924.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000909832-26-000084

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