Costco Wholesale's ROA from the third quarter of 2026 to the third quarter of 2025 and 5 Year Period

Return on Assets, Quarterly Results, Trends, Rankings, Statistics

What is Costco Wholesale's ROA in the third quarter of 2026?
Costco Wholesale Corp achieved a return on average assets (ROA) of 24.96 % in its third quarter of 2026, this is above COST's average return on assets of 8.46%.
Costco Wholesale Corps assets during the 12 months ending in the third quarter of 2026 are valued at $82 billion

ROA fell compared to the second quarter of 2026, despite the net income growth of 7.86% from the second quarter of 2026.

However, within the Retail sector 7 other companies had a higher return on assets. While Return on assets, overall ranking has advanced in the May 10 2026 quarter, so far to 156, from total ROA ranking in the second quarter of 2026 at 160.

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Return On Assets	(May 10 2026) III. Quarter	(Feb 15 2026) II. Quarter	(Nov 23 2025) I. Quarter	(Aug 31 2025) IV. Quarter	(May 11 2025) III. Quarter
Y / Y Total Assets Change	14.5 %	14.22 %	16.86 %	14.71 %	15.65 %
Y / Y Net Income Change	14.43 %	12.97 %	11.7 %	159.98 %	166.69 %
Net Income (TTM) in million	20,590	19,943	19,397	18,917	15,151
Return On Assets (TTM)	24.96 %	25.01 %	25.14 %	25.51 %	21.13 %
COST's Total Ranking	# 156	# 160	# 189	# 176	# 230
Total Assets (TTM) in million	86,430	83,639	82,790	77,099	75,482
Seq. Total Assets Change	3.34 %	1.03 %	7.38 %	2.14 %	3.08 %
Seq. Net Income Change	7.86 %	3.75 %	-25.1 %	36.52 %	6.48 %

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Return On Assets Company Ranking
Within:	No.
Industry	# 2
Sector	# 8
Overall	# 151

Return On Assets Statistics
High	Average	Low
25.29 %	8.46 %	4.85 %
(Aug 31 2025)		(Nov. 30, 2009)

Financial Statements
Costco Wholesale's Assets	$ 86,430 million	COST's Balance sheet
Costco Wholesale's Income	$ 5,130 million	Quarterly COST's Income Statement
COST's Income by Division		See COST's Income by Division

Annual Return On Assets	(Aug 31 2025) FY 2025	(Sep 01 2024) FY 2024	(Sep 03 2023) FY 2023	(Aug 28 2022) FY 2022	(Aug 29 2021) FY 2021
Y / Y Total Assets Change	10.65 %	1.41 %	7.96 %	8.89 %	6.84 %
Total Assets in million	74,374	67,214	66,281	61,392	56,378
Y / Y Net Income Change	156.78 %	17.09 %	6.37 %	16.46 %	25.13 %
Net Income in million	18,917	7,367	6,292	5,915	5,079
Annual Return On Assets	25.43 %	10.96 %	9.49 %	9.63 %	9.01 %

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Comment on COST's ROA in the fiscal year ending 2025

In the fiscal year 2025 ROA improved to 25.43 % compared to prior year, due to annual net income growth of 156.78 % to $18,917.00 million, while value of Costco Wholesale's overall assets grew just by 10.65 % to $74,374.00 million, compared to $74,374.00 a year before.

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Publix Super Markets Inc	26.17 %
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Date modified: 2026-09-08T15:11:42+00:00

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