Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports November Sales Results
December 01 2021 - 4:15PM
Costco Wholesale Corporation (“Costco” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:
COST) today reported net sales of $18.13 billion for the retail
month of November, the four weeks ended November 28, 2021, an
increase of 15.7 percent from $15.67 billion last year.
For the twelve-week first quarter ended November
21, 2021, the Company reported net sales of $49.42 billion, an
increase of 16.7 percent from $42.35 billion last year.
For the thirteen weeks ended November 28, 2021,
the Company reported net sales of $54.10 billion, an increase of
16.8 percent from $46.33 billion last year.
Comparable sales were as follows:
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4 Weeks |
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12 Weeks |
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13 Weeks |
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U.S. |
14.3% |
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14.9% |
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15.2% |
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Canada |
15.7% |
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17.2% |
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16.8% |
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Other International |
11.0% |
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13.4% |
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13.0% |
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Total Company |
14.1% |
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15.0% |
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15.1% |
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E-commerce |
12.2% |
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14.3% |
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12.8% |
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Comparable sales excluding the impacts from
changes in gasoline prices and foreign exchange were as
follows:
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4 Weeks |
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12 Weeks |
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13 Weeks |
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U.S. |
9.1% |
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9.9% |
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10.2% |
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Canada |
7.6% |
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8.3% |
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8.1% |
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Other International |
11.3% |
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10.9% |
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11.0% |
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Total Company |
9.2% |
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9.8% |
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10.0% |
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E-commerce |
11.7% |
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13.3% |
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12.0% |
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Additional discussion of these results is
available in a pre-recorded telephone message. It can be accessed
by dialing 1-855-859-2056 (conference ID 3181269). This message
will be available through 5:00 p.m. (PT) on Wednesday, December 8,
2021.
Costco currently operates 824 warehouses,
including 571 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 105 in Canada,
40 in Mexico, 30 in Japan, 29 in the United Kingdom, 16 in Korea,
14 in Taiwan, 13 in Australia, three in Spain, and one each in
Iceland, France, and China. Costco also operates e-commerce sites
in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Korea, Taiwan,
Japan, and Australia.
Certain statements contained in this document
and the pre-recorded telephone message 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. In some cases forward-looking statements can be
identified because they contain words such as “anticipate,”
“believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,”
“likely,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,”
“project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” or similar
expressions and the negatives of those terms. 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, inflation or
deflation, 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), the
ability to maintain effective internal control over financial
reporting, regulatory and other impacts related to climate change,
and COVID-19 related factors and challenges, including (among
others) the duration of the pandemic, the unknown long-term
economic impact, reduced shopping due to illness, travel
restrictions or financial hardship, shifts in demand for products,
reduced workforces due to illness, quarantine, or government
mandates, temporary store closures or operational limitations due
to government mandates, or supply-chain disruptions, capacity
constraints of third-party logistics suppliers, 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 |
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Richard Galanti, 425/313-8203 |
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Bob Nelson, 425/313-8255 |
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David Sherwood, 425/313-8239 |
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Josh Dahmen, 425/313-8254 |
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