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893.74
-7.61 (-0.84%)
We have scored 104 news catalysts on COST (COST) over the past 12 months. Coverage across the window leans positive (average ticker sentiment +0.32). Most of the impact sits in sector consumer and revenue cyclicality.
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Show more COST articles →Analysts publish price targets on COST, and they disagree. Where the share price actually sits among them shows which of their arguments the market is buying — and which it is ignoring.
8 analyst price targets from $1,000 to $1,275
as of 2026-08-26
Daily OHLCV with SMA overlays and session pivots. Draw your levels and trendlines on it, or ask the AI analyst what the price is reacting to.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors, derived from what the news actually says about COST — not a sector bucket. Click an edge to see the articles that established the link.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors of COST, taken from what the news actually said about them rather than from a sector bucket. The count is how many articles established each link.
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The reconstruction
The price sits at the very bottom of the published analyst targets, rejecting the 17-33% premiums those models require and signaling that the market views the stock as already fully paying for current fundamentals, with no extra cash left for the acceleration those bulls assume.
What the disagreement turns on
Can Costco accelerate its revenue growth to nearly 19% annually and expand its free-cash-flow margin, or will the business revert to its historical single-digit growth and thin margins? The available data can track membership renewal rates and executive penetration, but it cannot measure whether the massive revenue acceleration the price requires is actually achievable.
The price pays for
It declines to pay for
Written by a language model from the published models, the reported segments and a reverse-DCF — not a recommendation, and not a house view.
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Computed at $960 on 2026-08-26 — the quote has since moved -7%, so read this as a record of what was priced in then, not now.