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Costco Wholesale (COST) Dividends Paid - Common (2016 - 2026)

Costco Wholesale filings provide 18 years of Dividends Paid - Common readings, the most recent being $577.0 million for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Dividends Paid - Common changed N/A to $577.0 million in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Feb 2026 was $2.8 billion, a 82.77% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at $2.2 billion, down 75.85% from a year prior.
  • Dividends Paid - Common hit $577.0 million in Q1 2026 for Costco Wholesale, roughly flat from $577.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Dividends Paid - Common ranged from a high of $7.1 billion in Q1 2024 to a low of $351.0 million in Q2 2022.
  • Median Dividends Paid - Common over the past 5 years was $515.0 million (2024), compared with a mean of $1.1 billion.
  • The widest YoY moves for Dividends Paid - Common: up 126.25% in 2023, down 43.29% in 2023.
  • Costco Wholesale's Dividends Paid - Common stood at $400.0 million in 2022, then soared by 126.25% to $905.0 million in 2023, then plummeted by 43.09% to $515.0 million in 2024, then increased by 12.04% to $577.0 million in 2025, then changed by 0.0% to $577.0 million in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Dividends Paid - Common were $577.0 million (Q1 2026), $577.0 million (Q4 2025), and $1.2 billion (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.