Costco Wholesale's Dividends per Share for the
three
months ended in Feb. 2024 was $1.02.
During the past 12 months, Costco Wholesale's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 13.30% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.50% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.10% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.40% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Costco Wholesale was 40.10% per year. The lowest was 11.50% per year. And the median was 12.60% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Costco Wholesale Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Costco Wholesale's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Discount Stores subindustry, Costco Wholesale's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Costco Wholesale Dividend Yield % Distribution
For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Costco Wholesale's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Costco Wholesale's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Costco Wholesale Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Costco Wholesale Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 1.020
2024-02-01
2024-02-02
2024-02-16
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.020
2023-11-02
2023-11-03
2023-11-17
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.020
2023-08-24
2023-08-25
2023-09-08
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.020
2023-05-04
2023-05-05
2023-05-19
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
Costco Wholesale's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
4.08
/
722.68
=
0.56 %
Current Share Price is $722.68.
Costco Wholesale's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $4.08.
Costco Wholesale's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
4.08
/
722.68
=
0.56 %
Current Share Price is $722.68.
Costco Wholesale's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $1.02 * 4 = $4.08.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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Costco operates a membership-based, no-frills retail model, predicated on offering a select product assortment in bulk quantities at bargain prices. The firm avoids maintaining costly product displays by keeping inventory on pallets and limits distribution expenses by storing its inventory at point of sale in the warehouse. Given Costco's frugal cost structure, the firm is able to price its merchandise below competing retailers, driving high sales volume per warehouse and allowing the retailer to generate strong profits on thin margins. Costco operates nearly 600 warehouses in the United States and boasts over 60% market share in the domestic warehouse club industry. Internationally, Costco operates another 270 warehouses, primarily in markets such as Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the U.K.
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