COST Stock Ownership Breakdown

A company's 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides investors with comprehensive information about institutional ownership in a listed company, a sign of strength in terms of how many institutions have confidence in that company. The number of institutional investors who currently own COST shares is 4351, representing 71.52% of the company's common stock.

C WORLDWIDE GROUP HOLDING A/S, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in COST by -0.61% restricting it's holding to 612.13 thousand shares of worth nearly $448.46M. EMERALD ADVISORS, LLC also lessened -4.78% of the COST shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 603.35 thousand shares of worth $442.03M. ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. also shunned COST shares holding by -4.97% last quarter which brought its holding to 4.23 million shares worth $3.10B.

As per its latest 13F filing, CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM increased its stake in COST by 15.45% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 1.78 million shares having worth more than $1.30B. CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS also added 8.07% more shares of COST to its portfolio, raising its holding to 3.82 million shares of worth $2.80B. LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC also increased its COST shares holding by 1.69% which brought its holding to 3.56 million shares worth $2.61B.

The insider with the most stakes in COST is JELINEK W CRAIG , director at the company. Additionally, COST stock is highly held by Executive Vice President Callans Patrick J and Executive Vice President Klauer James C among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.19% percent of Costco Wholesale Corporation's stock. Within the last six months, there have been 10 transaction(s) in which COST insiders have sold stock, totaling 17.64K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include GALANTI RICHARD A, JONES TERESA A., and RIEL PIERRE.

There have been 0 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Costco Wholesale Corporation insiders have bought stock, totalling 0 shares

Around 193.97K Costco Wholesale Corporation shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.19% of COST stock.

COST director, JELINEK W CRAIG holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. COST shares owned by JELINEK total nearly 216.21 thousand.

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM is the largest institutional owner in COST which holds 1.78 million shares worth $1.30B or 0.4% of the total COST shares outstanding followed by C WORLDWIDE GROUP HOLDING A/S with ownership of 612.13 thousand shares representing 0.14% of the COST ownership. EMERALD ADVISORS, LLC is the third largest stakeholder with 603.35 thousand shares or 0.14% of the ownership worth more than $442.03M.

Stock options give the owner the ability but not the obligation to buy or sell a security at a predetermined price and date. Stock options can be classified into two types: puts and calls. A put is a bet on falling stock, and a call is a bet on rising stock. As far as the COST is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of COST shares short is 6.59M. Shares short is a market sentiment in which investors have sold their shares short in a given stock but have not yet covered them or closed them out.

As of today, 443.90M shares of COST are outstanding.

Float represents the number of tradeable shares in a specific stock. By subtracting restricted and closely-held shares from a firm's total outstanding shares, we can calculate its floating stock. The term "closely-held shares" refers to shares held by employees, major shareholders, and company insiders. At present, COST has 441.84M shares in float.

Short ratio is calculated by dividing the number of short shares, short interest or bets that shareholders will sell short from the average daily volume. A higher ratio indicates longer times needed to repurchase borrowed shares (sold). The short ratio for COST is 3.48.