Courtesy of Benzinga.
Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) is trending up after reporting its fourth quarter results Thursday afternoon. The world’s second biggest retailer beat earnings expectations despite missing sales estimates.
Costco delivered earnings of $1.77 per share, beating estimates by $0.04. Revenue missed by a little over a billion, coming in at $35.73 billion.
Overall, comps were flat for Costco in Q4, including a 1 percent decrease in the US.
Costco’s stock has experienced nearly a 10 percent decline in the past month. The stock reversed Thursday’s losses, trading up about 2 percent to $150.24 in the after-hours session.
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