Valued at a market cap of $433.3 billion, Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) is a membership-based warehouse retailer that operates a chain of large-format stores offering a wide range of branded and private-label merchandise. The Issaquah, Washington-based company is scheduled to announce its fiscal Q2 earnings for 2026 in the near future.
Ahead of this event, analysts expect this discount store operator to report a profit of $4.50 per share, up 11.9% from $4.02 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company surpassed Wall Street’s bottom-line estimates in three of the last four quarters, while missing on another occasion. Its earnings of $4.34 per share in the previous quarter exceeded the forecasted figure by 1.9%.
