Costco Losing Altitude Despite Strong Quarter

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Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST) sold off more than 2% on Friday despite beating Q3 2021 top and bottom line estimates by healthy margins. The big box retailer earned $2.75-per-share during the quarter, $0.47 better than expectations, while revenue rose a healthy 21.8% year-over-year to $44.38 billion, more than $500 million higher than consensus. U.S. sales rose 15.2% while e-commerce sales eased off the torrid 2020 pace, rising a still-impressive 38.2%.

Telsey Advisory Group analyst Joseph Feldman raised his target to $415 on Friday, noting “Costco should remain a share gainer, with its solid sales, high membership renewal rates (110MM total members), and square footage growth of LSD. In FY22, Costco should continue to generate solid EPS growth, driven by a MSD comp, MSD-HSD membership fee income growth, healthy digital growth, and lapping COVID-19 related costs. We maintain our Outperform rating.”

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