After accumulation, acceleration. Timing appears favorable to go long in shares of Costco Wholesale Corporation and to anticipate an exit of the trading range on the upside.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
● The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 0.62 times its sales.
● This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 170.98 USD
Weaknesses
● The stock is currently in contact with a medium-term resistance that must be gotten rid of so as to resume the upward trend.
● With a 2018 P/E ratio at 29.03 times the estimated earnings, the company operates at rather significant levels of earnings multiples.
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Costco Wholesale Corporation specializes in the distribution of products and services at discount prices (food, sports equipment, household appliances, books, toys, jewelry, TVs, cameras, photo developing and printing services, etc.). The group develops its activity through a network of warehouse stores opened to individuals or companies who have paid a subscription fee. Net sales break down by revenue source as follows:
- sales of products (98.1%);
- sales of subscriptions (1.9%).
As of 03/09/2023, Costco Wholesale Corporation had a network of 861 warehouse stores located in the United States and Puerto Rico (591), Canada (107), Mexico (40), Japan (33), the United Kingdom (29), Korea (18), Australia (15), Taiwan (14), China (5), Spain (4), France (2), Sweden, New Zealand and Iceland.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (72.9%), Canada (13.6%) and other (13.5%).