COST

ThanklessWaterHeater

OK, fair enough. I don’t mean to argue, I recognize you‘re better read in this stuff than me. I’m not a particularly bright person. But I have been doing a specific thing in the market for the last 30 or so years, and it has worked well for me. I started with around $100,000 back in the 90s and it is now over $34 million. I know that this ludicrous wealth didn’t land in my lap because I’m brilliant. And while I know I’ve had some luck in the companies I chose to buy, I feel like the choice to never sell companies like AAPL, LLY, COST, REGN, LRCX, MU, BDX, ORCL and others once I owned them was ultimately more important to the growth of my investments than the choice to buy. I feel like I have been doing something simple and specific—buying and holding fundamentally sound companies—and it has consistently worked. And I can’t help but think it would work for others, no matter what the studies say.

vermilli21

COST calls are free money

munchingzia

you have alot of overlap, but since youre already invested, id just leave it as-is. no need to pay taxes just to rebalance. i would sell COST as thats a dividend play and going forward go all in on FXAIX due to low fees.

riisenshadow92

NU, ISRG, both of these I actually heard about on motley fool, some of their tips are actually good Some others COST, RDDT, CEG, and BROS

Nefarious_AI_Agent

How we feeling about COST seems like a no brainer around 900

Nefarious_AI_Agent

How we feeling about COST seems like a no brainer around 900

Odd-Block-2998

\-1.43% over Nasdaq index today. Worst day in past 3 months. Naked shorted IBM as a hedge, resulting in $2,000 loss overnight. NFLX and COST dropped today instead. Didn't adjust my XSP puts, QQQ calls and QQQ puts yesterday, resulting in over-shorted position.

WendyDumpsterFire

Why isn’t anything pumping I got rekt with AMZN, META, and COST

Mammoth_Drop_5486

Can I ask why FBTC or FETH for 5-10 years is better than COST?

Me-Regarded

GIS is what I just bought. Good earnings, suffering from the SNAP drama. CG a contender. I think COST is also down because of snap

Soloist1646

Reason why BYND is exploding soon. Short positions have to buy back against their short buying 3.5 $ which is huge amount. That is why they need to pay back a lot for buying BYND. Buy around 4$ BYND and keep holding until next week. IF WE ENDURE ONLY BUYING AND HOLDING UNTIL END OF FRIDAY NO MATTER HOW MUCH COST IS, Then We will meet BYND at 20$ very next weekend. Short Squeezes will make panic buying. Til wait. Thanks in avdvane rich guys at near future.

Soloist1646

Reason why BYND is exploding soon. Short positions have to buy back against their naked short selling 3.5 $ which is huge amount. That is why they need to pay back a lot for buying BYND. Buy around 4$ BYND and keep holding until next week. IF WE ENDURE ONLY BUYING AND HOLDIMG UNTIL END OF FRIDAY NO MATTER HOW MUCH COST IS, Then We will meet BYND at 20$ very next weekend. Short Squeezes will make panic buying. Til wait. Thanks in avdvane rich guys at near future.

Soloist1646

Reason why BYND is exploding soon. Short positions have to buy back against their naked short selling 3.5 $ which is huge amount. That is why they need to pay back a lot for buying BYND. Buy around 4$ BYND and keep holding until next week. IF WE ENDURE ONLY BUYING AND HOLDIMG UNTIL END OF FRIDAY NO MATTER HOW MUCH COST IS, Then We will meet BYND at 20$ very next weekend. Short Squeezes will make panic buying. Til wait. Thanks in avdvane rich guys at near future.

Inevitable_Handle514

I've had COST for 30 years and have made a ton, but Im down on them now.

carnitas_mondays

on COST, it’s at a 50 p/e and approaching US market saturation in larger metros. crazy high expectations for growth with no obvious routes like it had up to now.

FinnishSpeculator

I think WMT and COST will underperform cash for the next few years. Very much priced to perfection. No opinion on HD.

Dr_VanTasstik

Earnings plays are usually lotteries. Companies can have great earnings reports and the guidance or market vibes make the price go down (ie. COST). The opposite can be true and the company can miss and fundamentals look down trending but the stock shoots to the moon for whatever reason due to guidance or market sentiment (ie. NKE).

StatisticalMan

>The argument is their profit was down because they are investing heavily in humanoid robots. If you are going to be an individual stock company investor as opposed to just buying index funds you might want to learn how to read an income statment. Tesla GROSS PROFITS that is REVENUE - COST OF GOODS was down in Q3 vs prior year. That is why income (net profit) was down. Their gross profit was down because revenue was down AND the gross margin was also down. Operating expenses did not materially change YoY. Of course all this assumes Tesla will actually deliver a robot and it will meet the musk hype and it will be on time and it will be cost effective for consumers. Simply having a functional robot is not necessarily lower cost than a human especially low paid human labor (i.e. picking apples). A general humanoid robot is not necessarily more economical than a specialized machine for picking apples. Tesla began as a car company and then was an energy company and then was an automation company, and then an robotics company and then an AI company. Realistically it has only delivered on the first one in any material way. What is to say Tesla robots will be any different than robo taxis, the tesla semi, fsd (coast to coast hands free demo coming by end of year 2018)?

Vintage822

I’m a buyer. Earnings in 2 weeks and they just signed deals with America’s two biggest retailers #WMT #COST #BYND

space_bar_69

So are GOOG, COST, and META. What's your point?

cosmicyellow

The question should be why is Netflix still worth 500b after the haircut. Just ten years ago, AAPL was worth 400b, Airbus was 50b, COST was 150b, MSFT was 400b, BAC was 100b. Today's valuations are insane and detached from reality. Palantir has bigger market cap than companies like Costco, AbbVie, HomeDepot, AMD, United Health, Chevron, China Construction Bank, Nestle, Toyota and Coca Cola. Insane.

BasSTiD

I’m good at finding things hidden, solving puzzles, and detangling what has been tangled. For time and price type of stuff I’m of very little use. Doubtful the G’s stay at their current position and that order was very likely them. It was hopping exchange to exchange at the end of the day. The more they grab, the more the spring is tensioned. It’s already well over 100%, and being that is with only 25 Million ish in collateral this may not be some mega hedge fund with supreme backing. If it’s not they can easily get margin’d and liquidated. Liquidation of even 20% would be huge and likely cascade. What I can say is for my (partial) exit steps, I didn’t lie months ago when I set my course. 100 ish will be whenever. I do like day trading quite a bit and lately I’m really getting the urge to hit up a direct access broker. I hate splitting my accounts like that as I travel for work so it may just sit idle for weeks but it’s such a difference after trying it out. So first 100 will likely be when I find another super obvious play where I can hit calls. Last time I found this was Etsy for cheap OTM calls, and NVO/COST at the same time, but Etsy was more clear. I bought calls with all spare liquid and 20 min later it flew. What I saw was hedge funds almost fully cleared out of short positions the prior day. Retail still held a lot. This is from collateral reports. The hedges will almost always squeeze the retail shorters as they get liquidated easy with just a small bump in price and some volatility from decreased margin-ability. There were also a lot of puts active with a max pain of 70 for the next weekly expiration. The closer to max pain the stock finishes the week at, the more options sellers make. The last thing was oddly calm charts. Calm charts decrease the price of options from decreased volatility. It felt off. The hedges buy cheap call weeklies, then shares, and bam. While I made a buttload, because I was so spread on strikes and expirations I couldn’t close all in time before the hedges stepped back into shorting hard due to spread liquidity in accounts and PDT. Next time I won’t make that mistake or I’ll just violate the account and open a new one. Left about 7500 on the table total. Next time I will not rely purely on liquid. Next 100 will be when OCC collateral shows a short interest below 100%. Probably 1/3 of current SI (not by Finra). For the next 24ish, if needed, whatever makes the other 300 free. With the 200 already gone, might not be needed, but mentally it’s easier for me to ride things out when free. The last 300+ are for long term cap gains. I do think Newegg is a serious long term play. On the speculation side, I don’t think there’s an AI bubble, I think there’s a subscription bubble. I see non-diversified companies based on subscription income like Netflix, Adobe, ADT, Peloton, Amazon, as well as subscription based AI companies taking a huge hit. Others will too and I’m sure I’m missing some, but to train AI you need the mega data centers. To run it, I see a massive decentralization and local hardware and software making a comeback. Apples biggest selling point is privacy already, the market wants this. I’m already pricing a small server out because of how much it would save me monthly between security system, cloud storage, VPN for when I travel for work, mini media repository, virtual machines allowing me to replace game consoles with PC and not get booted for watching the same app as my wife in a different location, local email and website hosting, LLM if I want it, etc. I see it like the late 90’s where everyone was shopping for a new Compaq or Gateway desktop. But this time it’s going to be mini servers/AI for your home or business that can be bought off the shelf, or custom for your needs. No one knew what they were buying. But everyone bought one. Brick and mortar has been a race to the bottom labor wise and majority of the time I go to Best Buy I already understand what I’m buying better than the person offering help. Microcenter is an exception. With computers and server parts, being I have zero faith in Amazon or Best Buy stepping up, I think Newegg and Microcenter will be the best candidates to absolutely blow up. Microcenter is a private company. Other potential Newegg options if I’m wrong on above… -GameStop wants to spend some of that 10 Billion cash and immediately become the premier PC and server dealer both online and by retail locations. -Galkins continue buying until eventual merger with Laptop Plaza. -Microcenter merger. Monopoly on quality PC parts. https://preview.redd.it/k6r72fhnfjwf1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cde488a2d8356f0fb2a7efb8d13232d5ac6cd063

timeye13

If that makes $COST get a vanity boner and rise, then yes, be like Whole Foods Costco.

ImmySnommis

The same six core stocks I've always bought. AXP, COST, MSFT, DE, AAPL and ORI. Sure I dabble in other stuff (thank you ASTS!) and I'll take small fliers on interesting stories (right now GT, KDP, QXO) but I buy my core six on moderate dips and carry on.

Throwawaymoneytalk19

COST is my biggest individual stock holding. I inherited it when a relative passed away in February, the point where COST was the most expensive it has ever been. After COST my biggest holdings are MSFT and AAPL.

Sandvicheater

COST baby!

Ashamed_Distance_144

The ones of significance in my port ASTS, AAPL, and COST. ASTS has quickly grown out of proportion and I expect it to do more.

Reasonable-Load3326

Solid core with RTX, MFST, NVDA, and COST... I've got Lulu in at a similar sizing in my portfolio (posted on this thread). I like their value right now and think the company will keep cruising along... I've also been thinking about adding OTIS. I think it's a hold forever stock.... BBWI and Rivian jump out at me as the two I wouldn't buy when I've looked at them in the past.

trumpdiego

##$COST parking lot was only 99% full today, economy might be fukt.

timeye13

$MNDY and $COST are actually performing for me today? Guess there’s life on Mars too.

Me-Regarded

PG, CLK, CAG, KMB, COST, DG. You are welcome

Me-Regarded

COST and chill baby

Me-Regarded

So what are the safety plays? DG, COST, DLTR, maybe some health care like BMY? Always something ripping no matter the market

jsie-iaiqhsi816278

COST being worth almost 4x AAPL should’ve been y’all’s hint this was a bubble. No way unnecessary bulk buying beats unnecessary yearly phone “upgrades”

Jasonrj

Yeah. APLD, NBIS, RKLB, and CRWV are barely keeping me green while AMZN and COST are tanking the last few weeks. If AI is a bubble I'll be bleeding, but I'm not selling anything for years regardless of what happens.

DoinIt4DaShorteez

After seeing u/Over-Computer-6464 reply, and knowing that the date of death was 8/16/2025, I think he may be right and that ED Jones made the adjustment. Because 8/16 was a Saturday, and it would be impossible to have a regular traansaction on that date. If you see a bunch of lines on the statement that all have that trade date and the $27.25 COST PER UNIT, then it looks like they did it right. Depending on the layout of the statement, I would expect to see a bunch of old transactions with varying prices, and then basically, for each one of those old transactions, a new one dated 8/16 with the $27.25 price. If that's what you have, I think they did probably did it right, assuming $27.25 is either 8/15's price, 8/18's price, or the average of the two.

DoinIt4DaShorteez

OK. SC is not a community property state, which means: Your mom gets a stepped up cost basis on your Dad's 1/2 of the shares. The cost basis of her own half remains the same as it always was. So using the example you gave, and let's just pretend the date was July (before death): 3.8130 total shares acquired. So for 1.905 shares, the COST PER UNIT would stay at $27.25 and all the other values would be calculated from that. For the other 1.905 shares, the COST PER UNIT would be whatever price the fund closed at on the date of death, and all the other values would be calculated from that. You will need to do that for every transaction. It's spreadsheet time. Split the number of shares in each transaction into two lines, each with 1/2 the shares. Leave the COST PER UNIT for one line the same, and on the 2nd line, plug in the date of death price. Then calculate the TOTAL COST BASIS for each line (Shares x UNIT COST). You shouldn't have to calculate anything else, because Market Value and Unrealized Gain/Loss are going to change every day. I don't understand why they're making you calc the new cost basis. If they're operating in SC, they should be doing it.

Palmetto_ottemlaP

We were instructed by the CPA that the step up basis should be 1/2. I worded that poorly. This is all in one mutual fund. There must be 100 lines of values. Here is a list of ONE of those lines QUANTITY - 3.8130 COST PER UNIT - 27.25 TOTAL COST BASIS - 103.89 TRADE DATE - 08/16/25 MARKET VALUE - 147.91 UNREALIZED GAIN/LOSS - 44.02 HOLDING PERIOD - Long Term COVERED - N

Odd-Block-2998

\-0.07% over QQQ today, breaking 9-day streak. Thanks to COST and META.

Mysterious_Spray_361

i scooped the COST dip and now I'm scared.

WildConsideration376

SPY $675 84 CALLS EXPIRY TOMMOROW  COST $1000 POTENTIAL LOSS $1000 SPY AT $670 $10,000 SPY AT $675 $20,00 EXIT AT $10,000 GAIN Cl🤡WN TRADER YOLO

timeye13

Absurd. $COST needs to look in the mirror and decide what it wants to be when it grows up.

PaxDev

COST getting cooked

timeye13

3 things: Buy $CAN dip now. $CRWV you lil scamp you. $COST in a quarterly identity crisis.

DrummerCompetitive20

When stocks like COST and NVDA rip up 1000% and then stay flay flat for years people wonder why....LOL

vermilli21

COST is red, so market will be green

Mnmsaregood

I had COST calls that would have been ITM but I sold them for NVDA FML

jsie-iaiqhsi816278

ASML is the most recent one. MAG 7 minus Tesla also reported like 20% growth. COST reported monthly growth as well. TSM reports monthly and has been doing well.

Happy_Discussion_536

Honestly I've been saying you should be long WMT even without the OpenAI deal. If prices continue to go up, COST and WMT are going to keep destroying everyone else. While their margins may appear thin they will gain market share will keep going up. Margins will get fatter later.

AyumiHikaru

Buy COST calls

Sandvicheater

COST shrugs off crashes like Rocky Balboa shrugs off punches by Drago in Rocky IV

gls2220

COST, BRK.B are the ones I'm thinking about as AI hedges.

Frenchyyyy4166

COST next? 🤣🤣

Curateddiecastindia

Ken griffin of citadel is heavily shorting $BYND COST TO BORROW RATE RISES TO 894% Over 60% of the company’s shares are shorted Could this be a meme stock ? Or a good gamble at 0.86 cents a share to try Anyway bought 10000 shares today

Curateddiecastindia

Ken griffin of citadel is heavily shorting $BYND COST TO BORROW RATE RISES TO 894% Over 60% of the company’s shares are shorted Could this be a meme stock ? Or a good gamble at 0.86 cents a share to try Anyway I bought 10000 shares today

Me-Regarded

COST and chill

Me-Regarded

All in COST that place is packed lots a mile long. It takes me 5 minutes to cross the lot. In recession I'd choose costco

wienercat

> curb illegal immigration The majority of illegal immigration is not illegals coming over the border, it's people overstaying visas. > reduce or remove benefits Not until we have raised taxes on corporations on the rich AND cut defense spending. Cutting and removing benefits only hurts the people who are most vulnerable in our society. It is a last resort, not a first choice. > no freebies anymore What do you mean by this > open up more med school admissions US government doesn't control this. Each med school controls the number of admissions it allows. Nobody else. Something the government can do though is address The COST of medical school. Plenty of people who could become doctors don't become doctors out of fear of failing out of med school with 300k in debt and no recourse to pay it. > provide universal healthcare and free education We absolutely should. There is more than enough money in our society and clearly more than enough to spread around to other things. But never enough to give back to our society. > None of that can be done with illegal immigration draining the system I need you to clarify this. Because illegal immigration is not causing the problems we are facing in our society today with education costs & quality, healthcare costs, deficit spending, declining birth rates, polarization of politics, rising income/wealth inequality, or the job market. Illegal immigration is a problem, but one that should be solved with better paths to citizenship. We need immigrants for a lot of jobs in our society, especially manual labor that most Americans don't want to do.

Same_Bag711

Eh, nothing right now. I like the mix of individual stocks I have in my brokerage/roth (ASTS, RDDT, HOOD, NBIS, GEV, BULL, COST, APO, CAVA, VST, RCAT.) CAVA is the only one I regret as I bought without really considering the PE for what they do, but I think I’ll break even on it eventually.

TestWorth9634

How did you select stocks? Please take a look at my holdings: $TSM, $GOOG, $COST, $BGM, and $BABA.

Prestigious_Meet820

META $180, COST $550 after holding 12 years, TSLA $40, TD.to $75 just this year. Much more but those are the biggest that come to mind.

itsgodsposterchild

Bol, you haven’t learned have you? Stop by COST for a tub of loob before we drill azz tomorrow. Don’t be late

Ijustgotlucki

Advice?? Stop buying options and invest in buying stocks, ETF’s, etc. Every month (or whatever you can afford) buy more. Over time DOLLAR COST AVERAGE will get lower and you will grow your account. STOP MESSING WITH OPTIONS IF YOU DONT KNOW EHAT YOURE DOING!!

Ash-2449

Yeah the double standards really get silly at time of conflict. Like when they complained that china is good at producing and exporting cheap stuff, something they loved a decade ago when they could take advantage of it, now its weaponised subsidies as if that's not a normal thing countries do every day, China just does it better with a more long term focus in mind rather than filling the pockets of their corporate buddies. Cant wait for 'China cures cancer BUT AT WHAT COST?!?!?' xd

visionarymind

Instead of just relaunching a combination 🍕, COST🌭 introduced a combination calzone It’s 1,100 Calories for a single serving 😳 & $10.99, so way moar expensive than a whole 🍕 Idk idk, their decisions lately seem kinda meh, lotsa inventory changes to cheaper quality stuff, idk, maybe poots 🔛 COST🌭

Me-Regarded

Grabbed AMZN, COST, and BA near close. Of course now down some after hours but I think caught a nice sale....hopium anyway

RockstarCowboy1

I buy POW cause I like WS, I buy COST cause they save me money every week, I buy ENB cause they bill me every month. 

etown00

Roth is great. I don't know what ETFs you are currently holding. There are a few ETF that do CCs on Mag7 for you MAGY, YMAG, others. Personally, doing CC on Mag7 doesn't always work for me due to volatility, I would rather buy DITM LEAP on those mag7 and leave CCs (or PMCC) for stocks with less volatile stocks having nice premium such as BRK-B, COST, GLD, VZ, that do not bust my cover.

Complex-Note-5274

Calls on COST

BigToadEats

I will not stop selling COST puts until we are back above 1k

Warningyouthistime

Thank you COST 🙏

Odd-Block-2998

Lost $1,000 from COST shorts. I somehow always short 52-week low stocks.

_galaga_

As a COST shareholder you just slow your roll here, buddy... Kidding aside, I agree it's concerning that there's been such a broad divergence from fundamentals and that also feels different from the Tech Bubble. Other than holding on for the ride and pricing a correction into your expectations and future plans what can one do? I can't predict what will happen or when but I've seen the market go sideways several times and when it does what's lost is essentially time. Or said another way what the market is showing you today is actually what it should look like in X number of years based on the assumption of continued fundamental growth. Market exuberance pulls this future value forward and inflates share prices before the money has been made. So if there's a correction back to pure fundamentals it'll take roughly X number of years to get back to today's level. I'm sure somebody smarter than I has looked at the degree of divergence from fundamentals and the length of recovery post-correction historically but perhaps that's what you're looking for to understand what's most likely to eventually happen.

Rare-Kangaroo8075

made $8k on $1k COST calls over night.. this sounds like a great move to put that money to work.. I like the story, I'm in!

LeBhikariLe

COST should start selling NVDA blackwell chips. COST to 2k then

timeye13

COST needs to push over $1k again. Not sure why it continues to be so undervalued.

Ready2gambleboomer

Signs of a limping consumer piles onto these fears. According to a New York Federal Reserve Bank [report](https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc) released in August, household debt increased by $185 billion to reach $18.39 trillion in 2025’s second quarter, while auto loan balances increased by $13 billion, hitting $1.66 trillion. Student loan balances also inched up $7 billion to total $1.64 trillion. “The pain is going to happen across the board,” Lakshmi Ganapathi, founder of investment research firm Unicus Research, told Eisman on the podcast. “It’s in the retail. It’s in the buy-now-pay-later. It’s definitely in the auto.” **So COST customers are financing the big wieners with four easy payments on Klarna?**

Rich-Badger-7601

Thank you whoever posted about COST, I appreciate the free money

bearhunter429

#I literally said I bought COST an hour ago and now it's pumping just as I predicted LMAO🤌 #https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1o16atd/daily_discussion_thread_for_october_08_2025/nigwuaf/

bearhunter429

#List of stocks that will hit $1000 in the next 3 years: AMD, NVDA, GOOG, META, MSFT, COST, LLY and TSLA (Also RDDT) LMAO🤌

Frozen_Shades

I forgot COST under should always be a buy.

Frozen_Shades

COST moving up!

sixtheperfectnumber

What's up with COST in the afterhours?

xleveragedone

COST going to the moon. Best low IV play is monthly sales release days.

Me-Regarded

My god I just sold COST before close. I honestly want to rope, not really kidding

bearhunter429

#Just bought COST. Everyone go to Costco now and spend as much money as you can. LMAO🤌

FocusedContrast

At least I was not the only one losing on COST

shasta747

COST is trading at AI/Quantum multiple though, OP is just too early

_unsinkable_sam_

DOLLAR COST AVERAGE do whatever you are comfortable with. if this is retirement level money you should be making decent returns just from interest. if you really want to invest it, take 10% of it and invest it every year, or every 3 months, or whatever helps you sleep at night. do this until you are happy with how much you have invested.

Mother-Chipmunk2778

COST puts

Look_a_dinosaur

I lost 30k in $COST leaps over the past 6 months. 75k account down to 45k. What's the next move 😂

WendyDumpsterFire

Rip to COST, AMZN, and META bulls GUH

timeye13

COST wtaf? Haha, nonsense no sense nothing makes any sense.

Me-Regarded

Oh COST how I love thee. Easiest stock to trade out there

Me-Regarded

I went all in CLX and COST I'm so ready

lobster-3

!banbet COST 935 14d

Me-Regarded

True, lambo for him. I'd personally buy COST right here. Not sexy, no AI, but probably a pretty solid choice given this pullback in a risk on rally.

Ashamed_Distance_144

Love Costco but unsure where COST goes from here.

YoMom_666

Sure, so why COST then?

copingstoic

COST calls here. Also people saying my King has dementia are just absolutely clueless, LOL. Look at the way he played dumb to that great dumbo Kaitlan Collins's question on Maxwell.