Costco (COST) Q2 2024 earnings

Costco on Thursday missed Wall Avenue’s income expectations for its vacation quarter, regardless of reporting year-over-year gross sales progress and robust e-commerce positive factors.

Shares of the retailer fell about 4% in aftermarket buying and selling. The retailer’s inventory had hit a 52-week excessive earlier within the day.

The corporate provided few particulars on its quarterly efficiency in a information launch, however will maintain an investor name at 5 p.m. ET.

Here is what the retailer reported for its fiscal second quarter of 2024 in contrast with what Wall Avenue was anticipating, primarily based on a survey of analysts by LSEG, previously referred to as Refinitiv:

• Earnings per share: $3.92 vs. $3.62 anticipated
• Income: $58.44 billion vs. $59.16 billion anticipated

Within the three-month interval that ended Feb. 18, Costco’s web revenue rose to $1.74 billion, or $3.92 per share, in comparison with $1.47 billion, or $3.30 per share, a yr earlier.

Costco’s income for the quarter elevated from $55.27 billion within the year-ago interval.

Comparable gross sales for the corporate elevated 5.6% yr over yr and 4.3% within the U.S. Excluding modifications in fuel costs and international foreign money, the metric elevated 5.8% total and 4.8% within the U.S. E-commerce gross sales grew 18.4% within the quarter in contrast with the yr earlier.

Extra buyers got here to Costco, and so they spent extra on their procuring journeys through the second quarter. Visitors elevated 5.3% throughout the globe and 4.3% within the U.S., CFO Richard Galanti stated on the corporate’s earnings name. Common ticket elevated within the U.S. and worldwide, he stated.

Costco has 875 warehouses, together with 603 within the U.S. and Puerto Rico. It additionally has golf equipment in a few dozen different international locations, together with Canada, Mexico, Japan and China.

Within the second quarter, Costco opened 4 new golf equipment, together with three within the U.S. and one in Shenzhen, China. That marked its sixth membership to open in China, Galanti stated. Two of the three new U.S. places have been Costco Enterprise Facilities, that are particularly geared towards small enterprise house owners like restaurant operators.

As of Thursday’s shut, Costco shares have risen almost 19% because the begin of the yr. The inventory touched a 52-week excessive of $787.08 earlier within the day and closed at $785.59, bringing the corporate’s market worth to almost $350 billion.

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