Costco Wholesale (COST) Free Cash Flow (2009 - 2026)

Costco Wholesale (COST) has 18 years of Free Cash Flow data on file, last reported at $4.3 billion in Q1 2026.

• Quarterly Free Cash Flow rose 678.04% year-over-year to $4.3 billion in Q1 2026, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Feb 2026 was $17.0 billion (up 78.68% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at $13.1 billion, up 18.01% from the prior year.
• Free Cash Flow rose to $4.3 billion in Q1 2026, from $3.2 billion in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Free Cash Flow ranged from a high of $7.2 billion in Q3 2025 to a low of -$322.0 million in Q1 2022.
• A 5-year average of $2.8 billion and a median of $3.0 billion in 2024 frame the typical range for Free Cash Flow.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2022 — Free Cash Flow slumped 83.82% — and 2023, when it soared 814.91%.
• Tracing COST's Free Cash Flow over 5 years: stood at $1.6 billion in 2022, then jumped by 186.41% to $4.4 billion in 2023, then tumbled by 31.29% to $3.1 billion in 2024, then climbed by 3.47% to $3.2 billion in 2025, then surged by 35.58% to $4.3 billion in 2026.
• The last three Free Cash Flow figures came in at $4.3 billion (Q1 2026), $3.2 billion (Q4 2025), and $7.2 billion (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.