secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW (COST)
CIK:        0000909832
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-05-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-22-161034
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Costco Q3 net sales up 16.3% to $51.61B; EPS $3.04 vs $2.75 YoY
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- Net sales $51.61B (+16.3% YoY); net income $1,353M ($3.04 EPS) vs $1,220M ($2.75 EPS) last year.
- Comparable sales total +14.9% (+10.8% adjusted); US +16.6% (+10.7% adjusted).
- Results include $77M pretax charge for incremental employee benefits ($0.13/share).
- First 36 weeks net sales $151.97B (+16.4%); net income $3.98B ($8.94 EPS) vs $3.34B ($7.51 EPS).
- Operates 830 warehouses (574 US, 105 Canada, 40 Mexico, etc.) and 8 e-commerce sites.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909832/000119312522161034/0001193125-22-161034-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909832/000119312522161034/d362298d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-161034

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