Compare Walmart and Costco side by side: valuation, margins, growth, cash and dividends, with the quarterly history of both. Yahoo Finance data, free and no sign-up.
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Price, rebased to 100
Walmart230Costco191
P/E (TTM)
Walmart39.7×Costco47.3×
Both curves start at 100 on the same day, so this compares returns rather than prices. Each week's P/E is the price divided by the earnings per share already reported by that date; loss-making weeks are not drawn.
What analysts expect
Consensus revenue and earnings per share for the periods not yet reported.
Revenue forecast · Walmart
ReportedEstimate
Consensus of 28 analysts for Q4 26 · +5.31% year on year
Revenue forecast · Costco
ReportedEstimate
Consensus of 26 analysts for Q3 26 · +10.13% year on year
EPS forecast · Walmart
ReportedEstimate
Consensus of 33 analysts for Q4 26 · +2.47% year on year · adjusted earnings
EPS forecast · Costco
ReportedEstimate
Consensus of 28 analysts for Q3 26 · +11.2% year on year · adjusted earnings
Analyst consensus from Yahoo Finance. The dashed bar is the average and the whisker runs from the lowest analyst to the highest. On periods already reported, the green or red line marks what had been expected: below the bar means the company beat it. EPS is measured on an adjusted basis, which is what analysts forecast against and is not the accounting profit in the statements.
Compared over time
Revenue
WalmartCostco
Net income
WalmartCostco
Free cash flow
WalmartCostco
EPS
WalmartCostco
EBITDA
WalmartCostco
Source: Yahoo Finance. Quarterly history grows automatically over time as new quarters are published.
