Costco Wholesale (COST) Invested Capital (2009 - 2024)

Costco Wholesale (COST) has 15 years of Invested Capital data on file, last reported at $103.0 million in Q3 2024.

• Quarterly Invested Capital fell 90.47% year-over-year to $103.0 million in Q3 2024, while the trailing twelve-month figure through May 2025 was $103.0 million (down 97.61% YoY) and the FY2024 annual result came in at $103.0 million, down 90.47% from the prior year.
• Invested Capital slipped to $103.0 million in Q3 2024, from $1.1 billion in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Invested Capital ranged from a high of $1.5 billion in Q2 2020 to a low of $71.0 million in Q4 2022.
• A 5-year average of $511.2 million and a median of $103.0 million in 2024 frame the typical range for Invested Capital.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2020 — Invested Capital slumped 94.41% — and 2023, when it soared 1421.13%.
• Tracing COST's Invested Capital over 5 years: stood at $96.0 million in 2020, then surged by 732.29% to $799.0 million in 2021, then slumped by 91.11% to $71.0 million in 2022, then soared by 1421.13% to $1.1 billion in 2023, then plunged by 90.46% to $103.0 million in 2024.
• The last three Invested Capital figures came in at $103.0 million (Q3 2024), $1.1 billion (Q2 2024), and $1.1 billion (Q1 2024), per Business Quant data.