COST - Costco Wholesale Corporation
| Previous Close | 297.60 |
| Open | 298.00 |
| Bid | 299.45 x 800 |
| Ask | 299.55 x 900 |
| Day's Range | 297.85 - 300.34 |
| 52 Week Range | 189.51 - 307.34 |
| Volume | 260,903 |
| Avg. Volume | 2,179,907 |
| Market Cap | 131.703B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 0.93 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 36.27 |
| EPS (TTM) | 8.26 |
| Earnings Date | Dec 11, 2019 - Dec 16, 2019 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 2.60 (0.88%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2019-08-29 |
| 1y Target Est | 300.00 |
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Uber to Acquire Chile Grocery Startup Walmart Failed to Buy
(Bloomberg) -- Uber Technologies Inc. plans to buy a majority stake in online grocer Cornershop, a deal designed to extend its geographic reach and bolster profits by bundling food delivery with rides.The move, which is subject to regulatory approval, could end uncertainty for the Santiago, Chile-based startup backed by Accel and other venture investors. Walmart Inc. announced its intention more than a year ago to purchase Cornershop outright for $225 million and re-sell the company to its Mexican subsidiary, only to have Mexican regulators oppose the move in June for antitrust reasons.Cornershop is the largest home delivery platform in Mexico and Chile. The app allows users to order groceries from a variety of stores such as Costco Wholesale Corp., Petco Holdings Inc., Walmart, bakeries and pharmacies, and have everything delivered at once, usually within 90 minutes. The items usually carry a higher price tag on top of the delivery fee. The four-year-old startup also operates in Peru and Canada. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.The arrangement could play a significant role in Uber’s strategy of layering more profitable services atop ride-sharing. Since the company’s disappointing initial public offering, the share price has dropped more than 30% and Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi has sought to reassure investors that Uber is focused on turning a profit and continuing to grow.When Walmart attempted to buy Cornershop, analysts saw the purchase as a way for the retailer to increase its e-commerce presence with the help of an established app that brought a giant database of users and more importantly, its consumer patterns.“It’s already positioned, it knows the market well and it was going to accelerate this process for Walmart,” said Marisol Huerta, an analyst at Banco Ve Por Mas. “It’s the same strategy for Uber.”The acquisition by Uber means the San Francisco-based company will expand on its Eats offering with the ability to deliver not only prepared food from restaurants, but a wide set of groceries, Huerta said. “They’ll be entering a new market but they’ll already have a big data base and the structure to operate in it.”Uber says it expects the deal to close in early 2020. Cornershop will continue to operate under its current leadership, reporting to a board with majority Uber representation.“Whether it’s getting a ride, ordering food from your favorite restaurant, or soon, getting groceries delivered, we want Uber to be the operating system for your everyday life,” Khosrowshahi said in a statement announcing the deal.(Updates with comments from analyst in the sixth paragraph.)To contact the reporters on this story: Lizette Chapman in San Francisco at lchapman19@bloomberg.net;Andrea Navarro in Mexico City at anavarro30@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Mark Milian at mmilian@bloomberg.net, Molly Schuetz, Andrew PollackFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports September Sales Results
ISSAQUAH, Wash., Oct. 09, 2019 -- Costco Wholesale Corporation (“Costco” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: COST) today reported net sales of $14.41 billion for the retail month of.
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Costco Wholesale Corporation Updates on Children’s Sleepers
Costco Wholesale is committed to protecting workers in its supply chains. In furtherance of this commitment, the Company confirms that it has acted appropriately relative to children’s sleepers that have been referenced in the media. The sleepers that had been on sale at Costco until very recently were sourced from factories outside the Xinjiang region and without connection to the entity that was recently named as the subject of a detention order by the Customs and Border Patrol. Those factories were the subject of favorable audits for labor practices and have not been accused of wrongdoing. Costco’s supplier also sourced sleepers from a factory in Xinjiang, but Costco has not received any of those sleepers. That factory, too, was the subject of favorable audits that showed the absence of forced labor and other favorable results.
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Edited Transcript of COST earnings conference call or presentation 3-Oct-19 9:00pm GMT
Q4 2019 Costco Wholesale Corp Earnings Call
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Costco makes move to keep price of chicken low
Costco is seizing control of its chicken supply chain so it can keep the price of it’s rotisserie chickens at about 5-bucks. Yahoo Finance's Adam Shapiro, Brian Cheung and Pras Subramanian discuss on On the Move.
