Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports December Sales Results
Costco (Nasdaq: COST) reported December net sales of $29.86 billion for the five weeks ended Jan 4, 2026, up 8.5% year-over-year, and $101.83 billion for the first 18 weeks, up 8.3% from last year.
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Costco (Nasdaq: COST) reported December net sales of $29.86 billion for the five weeks ended Jan 4, 2026, up 8.5% year-over-year, and $101.83 billion for the first 18 weeks, up 8.3% from last year.
Comparable sales: Total Company +7.0% (5 weeks) and +6.6% (18 weeks). Digitally-enabled sales grew 18.9% (5 weeks) and 19.6% (18 weeks). Costco operates 923 warehouses globally across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan, U.K., Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Sweden, Iceland and New Zealand.
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- Digitally-enabled sales +18.9% (5 weeks) and +19.6% (18 weeks)
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Key Figures
- December net sales
- $29.86B
- Retail month of December, five weeks ended Jan 4, 2026
- December net sales YoY
- 8.5%
- Growth vs $27.52B last year
- 18-week net sales
- $101.83B
- First eighteen weeks of fiscal period
- 18-week net sales YoY
- 8.3%
- Growth vs $94.04B last year
- Total comp sales
- 7.0% / 6.6%
- Total company comps, 5 weeks / 18 weeks
- Digital comp sales
- 18.9% / 19.6%
- Digitally-enabled comps, 5 weeks / 18 weeks
- FX & gas-adjusted total comps
- 6.2% / 6.3%
- Total company comps ex gas and FX, 5 / 18 weeks
- Warehouse count
- 923 warehouses
- Global locations operated as of release date
Historical Context
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Q1 FY26 results with net sales up 8.2% and higher net income.
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Nomination of Gina Raimondo to Costco’s Board of Directors.
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November sales up 8.1% with total comps +6.9% and strong digital.
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October net sales up 8.6% and digitally-enabled sales up 16.6%.
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Quarterly cash dividend of $1.30 per share declared.
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ISSAQUAH, Wash., Jan. 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Costco Wholesale Corporation (“Costco” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: COST) today reported net sales of
Net sales for the first eighteen weeks were
Comparable sales were as follows:
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Comparable sales excluding the impacts from changes in gasoline prices and foreign exchange were as follows:
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Additional discussion of these results is available in a pre-recorded message. It can be accessed by visiting investor.costco.com (click on “Events & Presentations”). This message will be available through 4:00 p.m. (PT) on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.
Costco currently operates 923 warehouses, including 633 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 114 in Canada, 42 in Mexico, 37 in Japan, 29 in the United Kingdom, 20 in Korea, 15 in Australia, 14 in Taiwan, seven in China, five in Spain, three in France, two in Sweden, and one each in Iceland, and New Zealand. Costco also operates e-commerce sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Mexico, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia.
Certain statements contained in this document and the pre-recorded message constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For these purposes, forward-looking statements are statements that address activities, events, conditions or developments that the Company expects or anticipates may occur in the future. In some cases forward-looking statements can be identified because they contain words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “likely,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results or performance to differ materially from those indicated by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, domestic and international economic conditions, including exchange rates, inflation or deflation, the effects of competition and regulation, uncertainties in the financial markets, consumer and small business spending patterns and debt levels, breaches of security or privacy of member or business information, conditions affecting the acquisition, development, ownership or use of real estate, capital spending, actions of vendors, rising costs associated with employees (generally including health-care costs and wages), workforce interruptions, energy and certain commodities, geopolitical conditions (including tariffs), the ability to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, regulatory and other impacts related to environmental and social matters, public-health related factors, and other risks identified from time to time in the Company’s public statements and reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the Company does not undertake to update these statements, except as required by law. Comparable sales and comparable sales excluding impacts from changes in gasoline prices and foreign exchange are intended as supplemental information and are not a substitute for net sales presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
| CONTACTS: | Costco Wholesale Corporation Josh Dahmen, 425/313-8254 Andrew Yoon, 425/313-6305 |
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