COST
5/8LiveCostco Wholesale Corporation
NasdaqGS · Consumer Defensive · Discount Stores
$960.01
Blended fair value
$229.43
Well above fair value
Margin of safety
-318.43%
against blended fair value
Expected return
-4.40%
per year, mid case
52-week range
Valuation verdict
Based on your current assumptions
Well above fair value
Fair value $229.43 against a market price of $960.01.
- Margin of safety
- -318.43%
- Expected return
- -4.40%/ yr
Company facts
- Market cap
- $422.40B
- P/E (5yr avg)
- 57.2x
- Day range
- $959.89 – $968.76
- 52-week range
- $844.06 – $1,096.50
- Volume
- 1.3M
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Discount Stores
- Employees
- 333,000
Membership warehouse retail. Renewal fees carry most of the profit, which keeps merchandise pricing deliberately thin.
Falls short on 3 pillars: p/e ratio, price to free cash flow, shares outstanding.
P/E ratio
Fail5yr average P/E below 22.5
Price to free cash flow
Fail5yr average P/FCF below 22.5
Return on invested capital
Pass5yr average ROIC above 9%
Revenue growth
Pass10yr CAGR above 0%
Net income growth
Pass10yr CAGR above 0%
Free cash flow growth
Pass10yr CAGR above 0%
Shares outstanding
FailShare count flat or shrinking over 5 years
Long-term debt to FCF
PassDebt payable from under 5 years of free cash flow
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