Costco Wholesale (COST) Net Debt Paydown Yield % : -0.03% (As of Apr. 27, 2024)

Costco Wholesale Net Debt Paydown Yield % Chart

Costco Wholesale Annual Data
	Trend	Aug14	Aug15	Aug16	Aug17	Aug18	Aug19	Aug20	Aug21	Aug22	Aug23
Net Debt Paydown Yield %		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-0.05	-2.09	-0.22	0.37	0.14

Costco Wholesale Quarterly Data
	May19	Aug19	Nov19	Feb20	May20	Aug20	Nov20	Feb21	May21	Aug21	Nov21	Feb22	May22	Aug22	Nov22	Feb23	May23	Aug23	Nov23	Feb24
Net Debt Paydown Yield %	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.40	0.25	0.14	-	-0.03

Competitive Comparison of Costco Wholesale's Net Debt Paydown Yield %

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Costco Wholesale's Net Debt Paydown Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Net Debt Paydown 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's Net Debt Paydown Yield % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Costco Wholesale's Net Debt Paydown Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Costco Wholesale's Net Debt Paydown Yield % falls into.

Costco Wholesale Net Debt Paydown Yield % Calculation

Costco Wholesale's Net Debt Paydown Yield % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as:

* 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.

* All the data are calculated by TTM values. Note that if a companies is traded in several exchanges, then we calculate the company level data for Net Debt Paydown Yield % using the primary share class stock data. The calculation result in definition page is for demonstration purpose only, and it's showing the share class level data. Therefore, the numbers in the calculation may differ from elsewhere if the stock is not a primary share.

Costco Wholesale  (NAS:COST) Net Debt Paydown Yield % Explanation

Net Debt Paydown Yield % is the change in average of four quarters of company's total debt over a company's market cap. Assuming the total value of a company remains that same, shareholder value is increased as debt is reduced. In other words, it is a measure of the willingness and ability of a firm's management to pay down debt. Companies that have high debt paydown yields indicate that they are more aggressive with paying down debt.

In the calculation of Net Debt Paydown Yield %, we use the reductions of TTM average total debt one-year-ago and TTM average total debt at present, divided by its Market Cap.

We calculating the TTM average debt by adding up the total debt, calculated by the sum of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation, in the trailing twelve months(TTM) divided by the counts of the total debt, accoring to the company's report frequency.

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