After Gordon Haskett Capital Corporation and Cleveland Research gave Costco (NASDAQ: COST) a Buy rating last month, the company received another Buy, this time from Oppenheimer. Analyst Rupesh Parikh assigned a Buy rating to Costco today and set a price target of $400.00. The company’s shares closed last Thursday at $347.00.
According to TipRanks.com, Parikh is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 14.3% and a 62.5% success rate. Parikh covers the Consumer Goods sector, focusing on stocks such as Bj’s Wholesale Club Holdings, The Estée Lauder Companies, and United Natural Foods.
Costco has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $367.39, implying a 6.5% upside from current levels. In a report issued on September 17, UBS also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $380.00 price target.
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Based on Costco’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending May 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $37.27 billion and net profit of $838 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $34.74 billion and had a net profit of $906 million.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 75 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of COST in relation to earlier this year.
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Costco Wholesale Corp. engages in the operation of membership warehouses. Its product categories include food and sundries, hardlines, fresh foods, softlines, and ancillary. It operates through the following segments: Unites States Operations, Canadian Operations, and Other International Operations. The company was founded by James D. Sinegal and Jeffrey H. Brotman in 1983 and is headquartered in Issaquah, WA.
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