Will Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Beat the Rest of the Stocks in the Consumer Defensive Sector?

The 88 rating InvestorsObserver gives to Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) stock puts it near the top of the Consumer Defensive sector. In addition to scoring higher than 80 percent of stocks in the Consumer Defensive sector, COST’s 88 overall rating means the stock scores better than 88 of all stocks.

COST has an Overall Score of 88. Find out what this means to you and get the rest of the rankings on COST!

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What do These Ratings Mean?

Finding the best stocks can be tricky. It isn’t easy to compare companies across industries. Even companies in the consumer defensive sector can be tricky to compare sometimes. InvestorsObserver’s tools allow a top-down approach that lets you pick a metric, find the top sector and industry and then find the best stocks in that sector. This ranking system incorporates numerous factors used by analysts to compare stocks in greater detail. This allows you to find the best stocks available in the consumer defensive sector with relative ease. These percentile-ranked scores using both fundamental and technical analysis give investors an easy way to view the attractiveness of specific stocks. Stocks with the highest scores have the best evaluations by analysts working on Wall Street.

What's Happening With Costco Wholesale Corporation Stock Today?

Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) stock is trading at $537.65 as of 2:14 PM on Friday, Aug 5, a drop of -$5.63, or -1.04% from the previous closing price of $543.28. The stock has traded between $533.35 and $540.01 so far today. Volume today is below average. So far 875,318 shares have traded compared to average volume of 2,299,940 shares. Click Here to get the full Stock Report for Costco Wholesale Corporation stock.