Costco Wholesale Corporation Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend
August 17 2018 - 4:51PM
Costco Wholesale Corporation (“Costco” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:
COST) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a
quarterly cash dividend on Costco common stock of 57 cents per
share. The quarterly dividend is payable September 14, 2018, to
shareholders of record at the close of business on August 31, 2018.
Costco currently operates 758 warehouses,
including 527 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 99 in Canada,
38 in Mexico, 28 in the United Kingdom, 26 in Japan, 14 in Korea,
13 in Taiwan, nine in Australia, two in Spain, one in Iceland, and
one in France. Costco also operates e-commerce sites in the U.S.,
Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Korea, and Taiwan.
Certain statements contained in this document
constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For these
purposes, forward-looking statements are statements that address
activities, events, conditions or developments that the Company
expects or anticipates may occur in the future. Such
forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may
cause actual events, results or performance to differ materially
from those indicated by such statements. These risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, domestic and
international economic conditions, including exchange rates, the
effects of competition and regulation, uncertainties in the
financial markets, consumer and small business spending patterns
and debt levels, breaches of security or privacy of member or
business information, conditions affecting the acquisition,
development, ownership or use of real estate, capital spending,
actions of vendors, rising costs associated with employees
(generally including health care costs), energy and certain
commodities, geopolitical conditions (including tariffs), and other
risks identified from time to time in the Company’s public
statements and reports filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date
they are made, and the Company does not undertake to update these
statements, except as required by law.
CONTACTS:
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Richard Galanti, 425/313-8203
Bob Nelson, 425/313-8255
David Sherwood, 425/313-8239
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