COST

Imprezeda

Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that COST is going to tank on earnings

Different_Many3099

COST been on my radar since last summer. They should be able to push back up to 980 soon. But I’d be careful with FOMC td

WetJetCrew

$COST is an exciting call for next week. I feel like they have opened a new Costco in a every mid density city at this point and more, more are opening up in major cities. I've seen at least 3 tiktoks of lets go see this new Costco in buttfuck new Mexico (no offense I'm sure its nice). You wouldn't think that a company that is underperforming would have the resources to build and staff multiple of the massive warehouses that cost millions to open. They are very focused on growth COST -----> $1000

silentaugust

I'm GOOGL, RDDT, COST, and Gold basically.

ftball21

CAKE and COST are good companys

xlews_ther1nx

As a sprott gold/silver holder it COST and no dividends. That said I've made alot off of it lately

Stitch426

COST has earnings on the 25th I believe. I bought 4 shares today and 2 yesterday.

CBarkleysGolfSwing

Can't tell if you're just taking the piss. Your average cost was 71 cents. After that point, the highest it got was 76 cents. If you assign the put at 5.45, you're in profit 65 cents which would be BELOW YOUR COST BASIS lmao yea dude. gg

Old_Bay_Boy

This is pure Copium. Thinking that "when shit hits the fan" (whenever that is?), that people are going to be going and impulse-buying at Target instead of discount buying through WMT, AMZN, or even COST is delusional.

Stephen_1984

BKR, COST, TRV, TT, GE, GEV, PH, RTX, TSCO, URI. They're all too expensive and/or close to their 52 week highs for me to buy now, though.

I_Own_A_Fedora_AMA

Many of the biggest names are a normal days trading range away from their 50 day moving averages. NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, NFLX, COST. SPY is teetering on the edge but it doesn't look like it because the ORCL AVGO and GOOG pumps added enough market cap to send the overall index far above the 50. GOOG is solid, AVGO is a coin toss, but the ORCL fraud won't hold. There's gonna be a flash crash on Wednesday, which I will miss because my strikes are too far OTM and this is my last play. You can profit tho.

Dude_HaHa

I'd love to buy outs on COST and watch it capitulate, but it seems like such a dream.

psubedi

Anyone playing COST earnings?

ehoney

okay class say it with me STOP SELLING CALLS AT YOUR COST BASIS

Darkoak7

40% gain on COST calls I bought this morning

Heyhayheigh

Buy VOO or QQQM on an auto weekly basis. Have emergency funds. Sell only when something urgent to pay for. Do that forever. The plan doesn’t change brother. Have some small amount for opportunistic plays if you must. Soon you will learn that it is not worth it. The auto beats all the effort. Have some autos for blue chips you like, NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, COST, just make sure the VOO or QQQM is the bigger auto. Never take off the bigger the auto. Always work to increase that bigger auto. If you make big money, don’t be silly, find and hire a trusted pro. You will make more mistakes with big money than the cost of good help. Best of luck out there!

Frozen_Shades

Bad day for things named Kirk. Charlie Kirk. Kirkland Brand at COST. The truth is out there.

saw-it

Damn did COST announce a new phone too?

EmuIntrepid7374

They know i’ll be making money with NVDA today so they dropped COST like a mf. Can’t win for shit

zooka19

Will update the growth side later if I remember to: One portfolio, two pies. Defensive: VUSD - 26.66% FUSD - 13.33% JEPQ - 13.33% EQQQ - 13.33% R1GB - 13.33% MSFT - 4% BRK.B - 4% JNJ - 4% COST - 4% WMT - 4% Growth: VUSD - 26.66% FUSD - 13.33% JEPQ - 13.33% EQQQ - 13.33% R1GB - 13.33% Remaining 20.02% is up of Tech/Crypto companies Was thinking at some point to replace FUSD, but there really isn't an SCHD alternative in the UK. Whilst FUSD has really nice growth, the dividend yield is 1.6%, which has gone down in the last 3 years. Almost feels like a less volatile S&P500 with slightly less returns.

sogladatwork

Replace AMZN with COST, and I’ll take it.

crazybutthole

Why do you feel like choosing three stocks and holding them for a long time is the best decision? If I had to choose three investments and hold for 15 years - I would choose: QQQ + VTI + VOO But I don't have to hold just three investments. So I have 25% in each of those three. And the other 25% I have spread around in other ETFs and some individual stocks. Like MAIN, COST, HTGC, AMZN, GOOGL, XLV and a few others.

weasler7

I've shied away from individual stocks. Everyone is a genius in a bull market. I've just done broad market diversified index funds. It's returned 11% annualized since 2008 (about 490% return cumulative). Prior to this year, my portfolio underperformed SPY due to owning international funds. Now performance has somewhat caught up due to international outperformance and also gold. The biggest contributor to overall account balance increase is increased contributions from a job. Investment gains/losses annually are probably at about 30% of our household income... so we got a while more to go before being financially independent. When I start getting uninformed advice from laymen is when I look to be more conservative. I have small positions in public facing companies that I like (COST, NVDA, AMD, HOOD), cut AAPL a while ago but just hold 1 share for fun.

Lost2Logic

The companies have already been “refunded” by the American citizens who actually paid the cost(and more) of the tariffs. The elites win no matter what! Real estate bubble pops cuz they were too greedy…hear take the peoples money as a bailout and why your at it why not buy up the houses that people can’t afford anymore and NEVER SELL THEM SO YOU CANT JACK UP THE RENT AND HOUSING COST. Capitalism is working as intended.

greenpride32

Actually revenue, profits and dividend distributions of SP500 collectively continues to rise over time. Don't believe me? Go look at the financials of some top weights such as NVDA JPM COST V MA MSFT AMZN NFLX AVGO GOOGL. It's just lazy rhetoric to think stock market goes up stricly on inflows. You have cause and effect wrong. The inflows are drawn in due to the performance of the companies. If the performacne wasn't there, the investment dollars would flow to other vehicles.

chillguy89_vn

$WMT $COST $ZGN $ARHS $SNEX...Picked from [Quantiverse.ai](http://Quantiverse.ai) daily rankings

greenpride32

>How does a stock like MO keep steadily rising while also paying a good dividend for the last 4 decades when cigarette smoking has been in massive decline? MO revenue is more or less flat for the past 10-15 years (it's in a very tight band). I don't smoke but I've seen the prices of cartons advertised at gas stations and when COST sold them, continue to rise over time. So sure, number of smokers decreases, but price increases to generate same revenue. As long as the company is profitable, it can use any cash after expenses to return value to shareholders in the form of dividends. Given there are so few competitors in the space, it's not hard to set prices in a way to capture a profit margin. As the diviend yield is very high, it attracts more investors that would normally stay away from the stock, and thus share price rises. Imagine the yield was 10-12%, a lot more people would buy it right? So price gets bid up and yield falls. But I don't see how you can see any value here. It underperforms the broader index. It has very little margin for error - very high debt and only being saved by free cash flow; that is all dependent on a habit that as you mentioned is in decline for decades. If dividend is decreased because they can no longer support it, the stock will collapse quickly. A hot stock today was AVGO. It's been a hot stock for 10-15 years increasing revenue and profit consistently. That's a stock of the future, not the past. From that point of view, saying MO has been "steadily rising" doesn't sound so impressive. Big difference in all around growth in key areas, and a company that could be headed to zombie status.

fortissimohawk

Except for WMT and COST, I have avoided retail stocks unless they were swing trades with a lot of pointers pointing in the same direction.

BrewerCollie

I'm in my 30s with no kids and a mortgage on a SFH. I am about 50% QQQM and comfortable with that. The only individual stocks I hold are COST, GOOGL, and UNH, which account for a paltry 25%. The other 25% is in VT. I'm simply not confident in the rest of the world to innovate and consume like we do. I work for a multinational corporation and 50% of sales and 100% of innovation comes from the American division. Let that sink in. 330 million consumers are spending as much on my company as the other 8 billion people. It's not even an American company.

DramaticAd1683

I'm a really big fan of Charlie Munger, who was very high conviction and shared this view on diversification. His entire personal portfolio consisted of 2 stocks... WFC and COST. His influence at Berkshire is apparent, especially when you consider that they allowed AAPL to become a 50% position. When Warren decided to sell like 5% of it, Charlie told him it was a mistake. Once Charlie died, they cut the position substantially... like down to 20-25% Some of my favorite quotes of his are... *"The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don't. It's just that simple."* *"If you can't stomach 50% declines in your investment, you will get the mediocre returns you deserve"* And then Warren had this quote, definitely showing Charlie's influence... *"Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth."* All that said, this philosophy is definitely not for most people... and I certainly wouldn't recommend it to everyone, who mostly want to just want to set it and forget it. For them, index funds are the way to go.

RussianPravda

I sold all my COST and put it all in AEO. Im not upset about it. But...if I had put it into LULU, different story.

groceriesN1trip

Companies out here growing revenue and profits and margins with actual moats aren’t like the very expensive yoga pants stock that can be bought at 75% discount at COST

peatoast

Is COST still a good buy?

MitchCurry

Sold my COST shares and put all the funds into AVDV, AVUV, QQQ, and VOO. Costco immediately goes on my Buy? watchlist. If it dips below 40 p/e, I'm opening a starter position. If it gets close to 30, I'm backing up the truck. I sold because I just don't see how it's a market-beating stock over the next decade at current valuations. I got 26% returns per year for 5.25 years of holding, easily thumped the market. Happy to take those gains not to cash but to broad-market ETFs. Also closed my short-term HSY play in my fun money allocation. I tried to bottom feed and ultimately made some money (4.7%) but trailed QQQ (13.4%) and SPY (14.8%). My fun money allocation has grown too large so I re-allocated those HSY funds to my retirement money and put it all into the same 4 broad-market ETFs.

Nefarious_AI_Agent

Puts on COST

QuarkOfTheMatter

First time with a leveraged etf? You gotta sell covered calls(ABOVE YOUR COST BASIS) like they are hot potatoes (https://optionstrat.com/build/short-call/NVDL/.NVDL251017C95x-31)

Ermahgerd_Sterks

CNN: APPLE AND GOOGLE ALSO MOVING HQS TO ALABAMA BUT RAISING HEALTHCARE AND DENTAL CARE COST DUE TO IMBREEDING AND LACK OF TEETH. Wow! Crazy news!

appnanoooo5

I hold MSFT and COST in my IRA. Just looking for solid long-term growth and companies with strong balance sheets. I use moomoo to compare income, profit, and cash flow trends across a few stocks. The visual charts make it super easy without having to dig through a bunch of websites.

TacoTrades612

I like Tesla tech. I own one as well. But I’m trying to stay objective with investments. There are better names out there. I like MA and COST better than Tesla. Less volatility, grows consistently.

TacoTrades612

I would look into stocks. A couple tickers I like: COST PGR MA

visionarymind

Really fukt the GOOGL🅰️ℹ️ Was incredibly dumb this Spring & didn’t sell SFM🌱🛒 in the $160 range to buy GOOGL🅰️ℹ️ sub $170 Now the grocery store sector has withered entirely—all tickers down even COST🌭—while tech has skyrocketed over rate cut expectations, GUH I’ll like add any dips below $200, thinking $350 Q4FY26

visionarymind

Used so many 🌭 today might head to COST🌭 for a 🌭 Long-term 🅱️ullish imho

hellaflush727

DCA = DOLLAR COST AVERAGE - Read about this youtube this term learn about it if you dont understand it.... and the stock ticker VOO - google it learn about it... sounds like you are pretty clueless which is okay everyone starts somewhere... I have given you the information you need everything else you see here is just noise no one has a crystal ball. The best thing you can do is start investing right this fucking second and do it consistently on a schedule for 10-20 years without taking it out of the market then once you're closer to retirement you can following "the 4% rule" which you can google or youtube that aswell and you will understand everything you need to know about investing and stop overcomplicating it.

LeBhikariLe

everybody talks about COST PE being 50+ and we have AVGO trading at 100+ PE

Training_Baker5454

COST leaps.

Due-Sea4841

Sell PLTR for what? WMT, COST, CVS.......consumer stocks? lol

Reasonable_Roger

Kirkland ice cream is it boys. Calls on COST

Such_Coin

I just learn my mom bought a bunch of COST at $80. That worked out well.

copingstoic

COST puts

timeye13

COST is gonna have me eating hotdogs exclusively for the next year. SELL MORE FLAT SCREENS & VACATION PACKAGES STAT.

Fhyzikz

I got a neat -$300 today thanks to MSFT, COST, and XLV wiping out most of my gains from last week. Super

copingstoic

What the fuck happened to COST?

jerm2z

Wtf is up with the drop on COST? Did their members all of a sudden just stop being ravenous?

Agolf_Tweetler

Bro I buy 0DTE ALL THE TIME, esp on Fridays. Hell, I'll do it during the last 30min of trading; made 3 bagger on $COST just this last Friday; immense pleasure of paying next to nothing to leverage $. Should be a lotto ticket tho, not the kitchen sink.

OkThenIllRender4k

COST

Actual_Option_8104

I'm not sure why this is provoking such vitriol, it's just part of the learning process and the man is learning. Starting small is a good idea, so is diversification or using an index or staying away from such a jumpy sector (I like the Gentleman's pitch of COST). But the simplest way to practice safe selling is to fully define your risk. In other words sell diagonals, it will not make you as much money but it will let you sleep at night. Also you are basing your math on the flawed assumption that NVDA has a natural VOL of 70, after earnings, it quickly dips into the mid 40s. Say you bought the OCT 140s @ $1.50, all things being equal (and they will NOT be equal but one variable at a time) you can cycle through 6 weeks of selling the 160s for lets say $1.00). That's the simplest version obviously you can roll your long put down or up or back after 4 weeks, or whatever. You have a defined risk of $60K (which will only happen if it blows through 140 overnight, otherwise, you'd never let it get that far). So you're buy $54,000 in monthly premium and selling $156,000 in weekly premium. That's still $100K a year, and that assumes you lose all of the premium you bought. Again, this is incredibly oversimplified, stop yelling.

unemployed-mooch

Ford -F I inherited 550 shares of Ford from my dad in 2018. I would not call it a good value pick. I have seen it hit $20 in 2021 and drop below $9 a couple of times during the last 7 years. It is on drip and has only gained 87 shares in that time period for a 1.37% capital gain. Sell your shares the next time they are green. Don’t stick with Ford at age 13. I have been waiting for it to break $12.42 again to unload mine. That way only one drip lot is a loser. Ford will not give you the increase in funds that you are looking for on your timeline. I have never owned GM or Under Armour so I do not have an opinion. My dad also had C, MO, KKR, CAT, ITW, and a few others in the accounts he passed to me when he died in 2018. I sold all of those, but C and Ford. Ford always seems to be in the red when I am selling. C is up 97% from when I inherited, but I am only up 26 drip shares in that 7 years so it is a winner. I wish I had kept dad’s purchases since they have only gone up, but I sold them. Hindsight is 20/20. I wish I had bought SCHG on 6/1/2023 when I added it to my watch list. It is up 595% since that date. Again Hindsight is 20/20. Dad always said buy what you know. I bought NVDA and APPL because of what he said after they had split. Luckily I held those. I am more familiar with tech than Dad was. I sold my PEP, COST, SBUX because I did not see them growing in 2020/2021 when I was playing daytrader. All 3 would have given me a nice profit if I had held onto them. So if you are not watching, buy index for 80% of your account. If you are watching buy what you know especially if you see people buying their products left and right in the other 20%. I bought Apple because of the lines everytime a new phone came out. I keep wondering if their time is done. I bought Nvida because of the chip shortage in 2020/2021. A few weeks ago after 3 red days, I bought some Amazon and some VOO. You do you.

PCMTrading

COST

Conscious_Copy_81

I use the one stock strategy, COST is mine.

UnObtainium17

still buying index thru my employer retirement account. My portfolio around 15% cash after backin up the truck on NOW. Sold COST and CMG recently.

martinez2k19

At -91% due to bad decisions with $TGT $WMT and $COST calls/puts the wrong way only made $90

Fhyzikz

Kinda want start averaging into a COST position here...

Worried_Quarter469

COST also, not sure

Fhyzikz

Now is a great time to buy- COST

AxelFauley

COST and WMT dumping today. Very interesting.

Fhyzikz

Idk I bought 10 shares of COST a few mins ago to ride back to ath

No-Improvement3164

COST and WMT red. Why?

RC-5

And COST

Happy_Discussion_536

Told you guys shitcos like TGT would get trashed and that WMT, AMZN, COST would keep taking share. https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-tariff-retailers-walmart-amazon-tjx-d4933283 >Wall Street Journal - The Biggest Retailers Are Thriving in the Tariff Economy >Walmart, Amazon and T.J. Maxx are beating rivals by offering deals to stressed-out consumers >In the tariff economy, retailers who cater to cautious consumers are winning. >Those who don’t are falling behind. >Walmart, Amazon and the owner of T.J. Maxx are scooping up market share from rivals by offering shoppers good deals and convenience.

Happy_Discussion_536

Told you guys TGT would get trashed and that WMT, AMZN, COST would keep taking share. https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-tariff-retailers-walmart-amazon-tjx-d4933283 >Wall Street Journal - The Biggest Retailers Are Thriving in the Tariff Economy >Walmart, Amazon and T.J. Maxx are beating rivals by offering deals to stressed-out consumers >In the tariff economy, retailers who cater to cautious consumers are winning. >Those who don’t are falling behind. >Walmart, Amazon and the owner of T.J. Maxx are scooping up market share from rivals by offering shoppers good deals and convenience.

MitchCurry

OMAB, CELH, COST, & BLSH red for me, dragging me down to +2.55% for the day.

Old-Cantaloupe-1711

people need to remember It's ok to be 🐻🐻🐻 once in awhile Sometim s you need to FUCK OVER CORPORATE AMERICA could you imagine COS trying to sell BONDS when stocks are down 40%???!! I'd like the TECH CEOs to get fucked by the Margin Calls and lose their TESLAS AND BENTLEYS I once left a Walmart in SILICON CALLEY KATE HUDSON walked out of their and a THUG stole her HERMES handbag SHE CALLED RHE POLICE and they sent 25 SQUAD CARS looking for him .then she PRESSED CHARGES and the DA LOST The CASE. IT WAS A SETUP SHE COST THE taxpayers $2 million because of that FUCK THE RICH

AxelFauley

COST calls at 55PE lol

Ready2gambleboomer

*Me:* *Buy CSCO calls = smoked* *Buy COST calls = vaporized* *Buy TGT calls = smoked* *Buy WMT calls = incinerated* *But this time it's different buy WDAY and INTU calls.*

UnObtainium17

Recently sold all my COST and added very tiny of GOOGL, LLY and Brk.b . Still reading up on ServiceNow, I am kinda leaning on starting a position while they are on the dip.

skinniks

Just another sign that many feel it's all going to blow up. WMT and COST will be able to weather this much better given they are the low cost alternative for their demographics. COST also has the advantage of membership fees which are not just a revenue source but, by their existence, helps mitigate shrinkage. All that said it's been way too fucking high for me to buy in over the last year or two.

aftherith

If y'all hate overvalued stock bubbles maybe take a look at the forward multiples on low-growrh WMT and COST yikes

BigWarning8696

Target has had declining revenues starting in 2023. Their issues have not been a macro problem (see WMT or COST), its picking a side (left vs right) instead of just trying to sell their products. Its purely a management problem.

I_Own_A_Fedora_AMA

34 PE AMZN -1.8% 37 PE MSFT -0.9% 55 PE COST +1.4% 43 PE WMT +1.3% 🤡"Rotation into value" 🤡 Grocery stores have higher PEs than "overvalued tech companies" and are still seen as a value play because? boomers just don't check and assume? Most of the air in this bubble is in boring ass huge companies with near total market dominance and no growth prospects at all.

LeBhikariLe

the only green on my portfolio today is COST. In Munger we trust

Happy_Discussion_536

I'm not getting into morals. Just facts that WMT, AMZN and COST increasingly people are going to. They are taking market share. Will continue to crush TGT. I'm not saying I love it, just what will happen.

BlackKnightsOptions

COST maybe. TGT shoppers wouldn't be seen dead at a Walmart

UPnwuijkbwnui

Target is an apparel company, WMT and COST are for groceries, and AMZN is for Chinese stuff online. Are they really comparable for their consumer base?

Happy_Discussion_536

TGT is trash. WMT, COST and AMZN will devour its rotting corpse.

EvolvingDior

I only get my shrimp from $COST

Evil-generation

Brk/b and COST

BasSTiD

UPS, UHN for a bit more, CAH, COST and if DG drops I’m back in on that. Really need that UPS 100 tho.

yruspecial

And COST too!

WSB-Rizzler

TGT trading at a crazy low PE compared to WMT and COST, there’s no way it can go down more right?

dcrockett1

COST has been some booty this year

ClandestineGK

WMT makes more from memberships than COST, calls.

Happy_Discussion_536

No wonder TGT going to shit. Stepped into one, layout is awful and impossible to find things they claim to have in stock. Made the right choice to own WMT, COST and AMZN instead.

alexbananas

What’s good value right now? COST and LULU looking hello juicy

shotparrot

More HYSA. More COST. more Brk.b. More international.

Honey-Holic

!banbet COST 1000 4m

Who_is_Your_Zaddy

COST put saved my ass today

Agent0_7

Keep buying VOOG, VTI, NVDIA, COST, Home Depot, and others notable picks and you should be good Go heavy on indexes go light on individual stock shares

Honey-Holic

COST…have mercy on me!

timeye13

COST tanking (someone choked on a HOTDOG?)

Happy_Discussion_536

> I don't see it being an issue in the short run, but I think the "long run" can come to roost as soon as 2026 Q2 in the data. You will only see this if they don't expand spending and deficits. Trump will simply borrow more money and pump the economy further, just watch. He will consolidate more power, win midterms and do it all through 2027. I say 2028 is when things finally crack. I agree weak retail is hurting. But COST, WMT, AMZN are thriving and gaining share over TGT, DG, etc.