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COST Costco Wholesale Corp /New

Five-factor quant read, peer ranking, and the analyst team's own call.

5.7
composite/ 10
Value computed
2.8

priced for 18.6% growth vs 6.6% delivered · -43% to base-case fair value

Quality computed
7.6

Piotroski 5/8 · Altman safe zone · ROE 28% · interest covered 71x

Momentum rank
2.0

one of the calmest names · low-beta - defensive profile

Defensive rank
9.0
Tactical rank
7.0

Descriptive, not predictive. Momentum, Defensive and Tactical are deciles within our liquid universe; Value and Quality are computed from filed financials. None of them forecasts a return - the model's out-of-sample AUC is published in the whitepaper. Deciles as of 2026-09-02.

Peer comparison

Composite score against sector peers · 6 names

#1
DLTR
8.6
#2
BJ
8.0
#3
DG
6.8
#4
TGT
6.4
#5
COST
5.7
#6
WMT
4.2

COST ranks #5 of 6 · peer average 6.6

No current desk call on COST. The factor scores above are computed; a full analysis is four analyst desks, a bull-vs-bear debate and a risk committee, and takes about three minutes.
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