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COST · Costco Wholesale Corporation
$1005.16 +0.18% Oct 26 close
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$COST
Costco Wholesale CorporationCostco Wholesale Corporation is a mega-cap Specialty Stores company in the Retail Trade sector with a market cap of $442B.
Market Structure
Trend structure: uptrend
Latest event: bos
(bullish)
Support
925.77–936.51
· 9 touches · strong
Support
960.46–969.86
· 7 touches · strong
Support
977.81–987.55
· 6 touches · strong
Resistance
1028.44–1035.82
· 3 touches · moderate
Support
993.00–997.41
· 3 touches · moderate
Earnings
Normal technical setup
Next earnings
Thursday, December 10, 2026
Report time not confirmed by the source
Deterministic evidence
COST+0.18%
Sector proxy · XLY+1.03%
Broad market · SPY+0.71%
Session internals Mixed
Rule: direction and internals disagree — it met neither the strong nor the weak rule. Judged on internals, not on the size of the move.
Vs prior close+0.18%
From the open+0.46%
Range position38%
GapNo gap
QQQ confirmationConfirming (+1.11%)
SMH confirmationConfirming (+2.74%)
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More stats
52W Low
$844.06
Tight Wks
2
Base
B1
SMA 200
$969.80
Group Rank
#29/66
ADR%
1.6%
ATR(14)
$16.26 (1.6%)
Vol Pace (live)
N/A
A/D Days
14A / 13D
A/D Rating
B
Power Trend
9d
Earnings
in 44d
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Technical Analysis Report Card
$COST · $1005.16 · as of 2026-10-26 · multi-factor read
85
/ 100
Trend · Daily / Weekly / Monthly
Daily
▲ Uptrend
Weekly
▬ Sideways / consolidating
Monthly
▲ Uptrend
Moving Averages
50-day$939.75 ↑
100-day$945.16 ↑
200-day$969.80 ↑
Bearish (50 < 200)
RSI (14)
Reading69.7 · Bullish
Bullish momentum — comfortably in buyer territory.
MACD (12/26/9)
StateBullish
Histogram+5.019
Bullish — MACD above its signal line and above zero. Histogram contracting.
Bollinger Bands (20,2)
%B / Width81% · 14.4%
Near the upper band — buyers in control.
Volume · Buyer vs Seller
Up/Down vol1.75 · Accumulation
Rel volume1.1×
Pocket pivots · 10d1
5d vs 50d vol109%
Heavy vol up / down1 / 0
Accumulation — volume is concentrated on up days; buyers dominate. Recent volume is expanding versus its baseline.
- Pocket pivot 8 sessions ago — up-day volume beat every down day of the prior 10 sessions.
- 1 heavy-volume up day vs 0 down in the last 20 sessions.
Support & Resistance
R · $1033.54swing level
R · $1096.5052-week high
Price · $1005.16now
S · $985.13swing level
S · $966.00swing level
S · $933.46swing level
Fibonacci · Downtrend swing
23.6%$933.46
38.2%$964.62
50.0%$989.80
61.8% ◄ price here$1014.98
78.6%$1050.83
Retracement resistance zones measured from the recent swing high down to the low.
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Daily uptrendMonthly uptrendAbove 200-day MA50/200 bearishVolume accumulation
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Base & Breakout
Breakout follow-through
No active breakout tracked — Legend AI monitors daily for pivot-point breaks. What's a breakout?
Latest candle: Shooting Star — Long upper shadow with a small body near the low — sellers rejected higher prices. A caution flag when price is extended above a pivot.
RS Line vs SPY
52-week relative strength · blue = RS line · dashed = MA50 · dot = NH
Accumulation / Distribution
last 65 sessions · green = acc on high vol · red = dist on high vol
Net +1
No patterns detected
This symbol didn't match any pattern in the latest scan.
Minervini Trend Template
4/8Grades the price structure — moving-average stacking, distance from the 52-week high/low, and relative strength above the ≥70 uptrend bar. This is the technical trend check; the company's fundamentals and ≥80 RS leadership are scored separately in the Grade Card.
Price above SMA 150 & 200
$1005.16 vs SMA150 $965.58 / SMA200 $969.80
SMA 150 above SMA 200
SMA150 $965.58 vs SMA200 $969.80
SMA 200 trending up
Slope +9.21 over 20 days
SMA 50 above SMA 150 & 200
SMA50 $939.75
Price above SMA 50
$1005.16 vs SMA50 $939.75
30%+ above 52-week low
+19.1% from $844.06
Within 25% of 52-week high
-8.3% from $1096.50
RS score above 70
RS 50
Fundamentals
52W Range
64%
Mkt Cap SEC
442.4B
EPS QoQ
+8%
Rev YoY
+10%
ROE
28%
Gross Margin
13%
D/E
0.25
EPS TTM
$20.76
P/E TTM
48.4x
Float
443M
Insider
No Buy
Company
Company profile
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Scan History
Jul 30
watchlist_candidate
0
Jul 28
Darvas Box
51
+4.0%
Jul 28
Darvas Box
48
+4.0%
Jul 28
Darvas Box
48
+4.0%
May 26
Flat Base
✓ Gate
72
+0.2%
May 25
Flat Base
✓ Gate
72
+0.2%
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