Costco
Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American multinational corporation that operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores. As of 2021, Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world, and as of August 2024, the world's largest retailer of beef, poultry, organic produce, and wine, with just under a third of American consumers regularly shopping at Costco warehouses. As of 2025, Costco is ranked 12th on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, and is also ranked as the largest grocery retailer in Canada.
If you'd bought from year…
Same habit, different start year. Each row shows what a constant habit's worth of COST would be worth today, had you started buying at that point in the asset's history.
| Started | $6/day$6/day coffee | $42/wk$42/week coffee |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 (1986) — listing | $3,528,806 58.5× | $5,110,614 58.4× |
| Year 6 (1991) | $2,468,706 46.2× | $3,571,576 46.0× |
| Year 11 (1996) | $1,199,251 26.1× | $1,741,943 26.1× |
| Year 16 (2001) | $630,793 16.5× | $917,930 16.5× |
| Year 21 (2006) | $340,144 11.0× | $494,652 11.1× |
| Year 26 (2011) | $149,011 6.4× | $216,781 6.4× |
| Year 31 (2016) | $55,270 3.5× | $80,376 3.5× |
| Year 36 (2021) | $13,937 1.7× | $20,286 1.7× |
Repeated investment, no fees, dividends reinvested. $6/day coffee = $180 / month equivalent.
Headquarters
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Popular scenarios with COST
For illustration only — not investment advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results.