Costco (cost) Q4 2025 profits

Costeco On Thursday, Wall Street’s expectations of quarterly profits and revenues topped the warehouse club gains from two numbers in both membership income and e -commerce work.

Unlike many other retailers, the company does not share annual expectations.

In the company’s profit call, Gary Millerchip said that the retailer worked hard to compensate for the costs of high tariffs. He said that in some cases, new elements of the Kirkland Signature brand have introduced her alternatives to the goods that were struck by the definitions. About a third of Costco sales in the United States comes from imported goods.

He said that Costco is also changing a variety of goods in some cases, such as buying more elements made by the United States or tending to categories with less tariff such as health and beauty.

He said that inflation in general remained in the low number of number to the middle of the number, while increasing food prices similar to the last quarter. However, for the second quarter in a row, he said that inflation returned to non -nutritional goods, driven primarily by imported elements.

Retail shares declined slightly in the extended trading.

Here is how Costco did in the fourth financial quarter compared to what Wall Street expected, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:

• Arrow’s profits: $ 5.87 for $ 5.80 expected
• profit: 86.16 billion dollars compared to 86.06 billion dollars expected

Costco’s net income for the three -month period, which increased to $ 2.61 billion, or $ 5.87 per share, compared to $ 2.35 billion, or $ 5.29 per share in the previous year. Revenue increased from $ 79.7 billion in the previous period.

The sales of the same stores, a measure in the industry that takes one -time factors such as holes and closure of stores, increased by 6.4 % except for the effect of changes in gas prices and foreign expression. This result, which was reported alongside Costco sales numbers in August, represents two quarter in a class of store sales themselves.

E -commerce sales increased by 13.5 % compared to the time period in the year, with the exception of the effects of changes in gas prices and foreign expression.

While US consumers are looking for value, Costco and warehouse clubs I opened new sites and attract more members. The younger shoppers participated in stores where retailers offer more ways to shop online, a wide range of goods and cheapest meals.

In an interview with this summer, Millerchip CNBC told the average age of the company’s members, and that at least half of its new records each year of people under the age of 40.

As members join age groups, Costco revenues, which include net sales and fees, also grew. Its total revenue for the entire year was 275.24 billion dollars, an increase of about 8.1 % on an annual basis.

In a quarter, his total membership fee jumped by about 14 %, reflecting an increase in promoting shoppers and high fees. Last fall, that Her membership fees were raised For the first time since 2017, Costco shoppers now pay $ 5 a year or $ 10 annually to its higher level membership when renewing annual fees.

In the company’s profit call, CEO Ron Fashris said that Costtec has opened 27 new warehouses, including three transfers. It plans to open 35 other warehouses in the next fiscal year, including five transfers.

Milrachib said in the call that traffic to stores and the Costco site increased by 3.7 % worldwide. Meanwhile, the average volume of transactions increased by 2.6 % all over the world, except for foreign gas and gas changes.

Costco shares have jumped about 180 % over the past five years. However, the retail seller has recently led to the market weakness, as the shares have increased to a little more than 2 % so far this year compared to more than 12 % of the S&P 500 gains during the same time.