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Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Financial Statements FY2022-FY2026

Costco Wholesale's income statement and balance sheet, FY2022 through FY2026, as a public, auditable plain-text Beancount ledger — reconstructed line by line from the company's own Form 10-K and 8-K filings and version-controlled in git.… Ledger notes

Financial position

Net worth and the accounts that make it up

Net Worth
Assets plus liabilities over the last 12 months
35,803 MUSD
+6,639 MUSDfrom previous month
Accounts
Current asset and liability account balances

Money movement

Monthly income and spending by account category

August 2026
Money in
August 2026
+303,720 MUSD
Top sources
Average of up to 3 preceding periods
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Money out
August 2026
-294,494 MUSD
Top spending
Average of up to 3 preceding periods
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Recent activity

Posting-aware activity from the journal

Transactions
Newest transactions matching the current dashboard filters

Income vs Expenses

Income vs Expenses
Bar chart comparing total income and expenses for each interval in the selected period.
Period data
PeriodIncomeExpensesNet Profit
2022-08-31226,930 MUSD221,086 MUSD5,844 MUSD
2022-09-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2022-10-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2022-11-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2022-12-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-01-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-02-28-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-03-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-04-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-05-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-06-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-07-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-08-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-09-30242,663 MUSD236,371 MUSD6,292 MUSD
2023-10-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-11-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2023-12-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-01-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-02-29-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-03-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-04-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-05-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-06-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-07-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-08-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-09-30254,908 MUSD247,541 MUSD7,367 MUSD
2024-10-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-11-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2024-12-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-01-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-02-28-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-03-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-04-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-05-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-06-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-07-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-08-31275,670 MUSD267,571 MUSD8,099 MUSD
2025-09-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-10-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-11-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2025-12-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2026-01-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2026-02-28-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2026-03-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2026-04-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2026-05-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2026-06-30-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2026-07-31-0 MUSD0 MUSD-0 MUSD
2026-08-31303,720 MUSD294,494 MUSD9,226 MUSD

Balance Sheet

Assets Distribution
Visual representation of Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Financial Statements FY2022-FY2026 assets composition
Breakdown
AccountAmountShare of total
Assets:NonCurrent:PropertyPlantEquipment35,633 MUSD40.02%
Assets:NonCurrent:Other6,830 MUSD7.67%
Assets:Current:ShortTermInvestments1,094 MUSD1.23%
Assets:Current:Other1,998 MUSD2.24%
Assets:Current:Inventories19,324 MUSD21.7%
Assets:Current:Cash20,207 MUSD22.69%
Assets:Current:AccountsReceivable3,959 MUSD4.45%
Liabilities Distribution
Visual representation of Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Financial Statements FY2022-FY2026 liabilities composition
Breakdown
AccountAmountShare of total
Liabilities:NonCurrent:Other5,376 MUSD10.1%
Liabilities:NonCurrent:LongTermDebt3,914 MUSD7.35%
Liabilities:Current:ShortTermDebt2,248 MUSD4.22%
Liabilities:Current:Other16,107 MUSD30.25%
Liabilities:Current:DeferredRevenue3,006 MUSD5.65%
Liabilities:Current:AccountsPayable22,591 MUSD42.43%

Cash Flow

Cash Flow
Money flow from income sources to expenses and investments

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README.md

Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Financial Statements in Beancount — Open Ledger

Costco Wholesale's income statement and balance sheet, FY2022 through FY2026, as a public, auditable plain-text Beancount ledger — reconstructed line by line from the company's own Form 10-K and 8-K filings and version-controlled in git. Part of the Open Ledger project on beancount.io.

Browse it live: beancount.io/ledger/open_ledger/costco

Latest analysis: Costco FY2026 Earnings: $303B of Revenue, and the $5.9B of Membership Fees That Make Half the Profit

Key Figures

PeriodPeriod endRevenueNet income
FY20222022-08-28226,9545,844
FY20232023-09-03242,2906,292
FY20242024-09-01254,4537,367
FY20252025-08-31275,2358,099
FY20262026-08-30303,1549,226

Amounts in MUSD (millions of US dollars), exactly as the ledger records them.

What's Inside

Fiscal years end on the Sunday nearest August 31 (FY2023 was 53 weeks, ending September 3, 2023); SEC CIK 0000909832. FY2022–FY2025 come from Form 10-K filings and FY2026 from the Q4 results press release (Form 8-K Exhibit 99.1, 2026-09-24, unaudited). Income:Revenue is total revenue (net sales plus membership fees); the split is recorded in a comment on each income-statement transaction.

Quick Start

bash
uvx --from beancount bean-check main.bean
uvx --from beanquery bean-query main.bean \
  "SELECT year, sum(position) WHERE account ~ '^Income:Revenue' GROUP BY year ORDER BY year"

Zero output from bean-check means the ledger is internally consistent: every
income statement sums to zero and every balance-sheet snapshot reconciles to
the filed totals. The query prints revenue by calendar year; income is a
credit, so it shows as a negative number. Open main.bean in Fava
or import it into beancount.io to explore it visually.

Methodology

  • Balance sheet — pad / balance directives assert each period-end
    figure against the filing named in that period file's source banner.
  • Income statement — one zero-sum transaction per period: Income
    negative (credit), Expenses positive (debit), with the arithmetic check in
    a comment directly above it.
  • Unit — MUSD; 303,154 MUSD means 303,154 million US dollars.
  • Additional accounts — Assets:Current:Inventories,
    Equity:NoncontrollingInterests, opened beyond the standard chart (see each
    account's open line in main.bean).

Analysis

Corrections

Found a figure that does not match the filing? Email
[email protected] with the period, the account
and the filing page. Corrections are committed with the source cited.

About Open Ledger

Open Ledger is a growing library of public-company financial statements
published as plain-text accounting at
beancount.io/ledger — git-versioned, diffable
across companies, and auditable against primary filings. Read the analysis
behind the numbers on the beancount.io blog.

Disclaimer

This ledger is an independent reconstruction of Costco Wholesale Corporation's publicly filed
financial statements, provided for educational and informational purposes
only. It is not investment, financial, legal, tax, or accounting advice, and
is not an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security. Beancount.io is
not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Costco Wholesale Corporation; all trademarks
belong to their respective owners. Figures may contain errors, omissions, or
simplifications and may lag the latest filings — the company's own regulatory
filings are the authoritative source. Provided "as is" without warranty of any
kind; use at your own risk.