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Costco (COST)
Membership warehouse-club retailer with around 900 locations worldwide; most of its profit comes from annual membership fees rather than merchandise margin.
- Legal name
- Costco Wholesale Corporation
- Ticker
- COST
- Exchange
- Nasdaq Stock Market · MIC XNAS
- Country
- United States
- Sector
- Consumer Staples
- Industry
- Warehouse club retail
- Market cap ≈
- $420bn (approx., seed-0.6 · 2026-08-29)
- Reporting currency
- USD
- Founded
- 1983
- Website
- www.costco.com
- LEI
- 29DX7H14B9S6O3FD6V18 (GLEIF)
- ISIN
- US22160K1051 (check digit validated)
- FIGI
- BBG001S9KRQ7 (share class, OpenFIGI)
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lists_onNasdaq Stock Market
domiciled_inUnited States
member_ofS&P 500
Nasdaq-100
held_by (top holdings)Invesco QQQ Trust
Sector peers — Consumer Staples
Compare: COST vs NESN · COST vs WMT · COST vs PG
Identifier crosswalk
| Standard | Value | What it answers |
|---|---|---|
| Ticker | COST | Venue-local shorthand — ambiguous across markets |
| MIC | XNAS | ISO 10383 — the venue |
| ISIN | US22160K1051 | ISO 6166 — the security |
| LEI | 29DX7H14B9S6O3FD6V18 | ISO 17442 — the legal entity |
| FIGI | BBG001S9KRQ7 | OpenFIGI — instrument, share class |
| CUSIP | 22160K105 | Derived from the US/CA ISIN, check digit verified — licensed identifier, not republished as data |
One entity, six naming systems. Each linked code opens its reverse-lookup page; the validator checks any code's check digit. CUSIP is shown because it is embedded in US/CA ISINs — we verify it, we do not redistribute CUSIP data.
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.6 · 2026-08-29 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
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