Costco Stock Extends Losses. Why Wall Street Thinks the Downturn Won’t Last. — Barrons.com
By Sabrina Escobar Costco Wholesale stock was on track for its second straight day of losses Monday following backlash from a lackluster fiscal second-quarter earnings report. Take advantage of the dip, some analysts said, but be wary of the stock’s valuation. Shares of Costco were falling 1.6% to $713.83 on Monday after closing around 7% lower Friday in the stock’s worst trading day in nearly two years. The past two trading days essentially have erased the stock’s nearly 9% gain over the past month. At the heart of the pullback was Costco’s slight revenue miss for the holiday quarter, which ended in mid-February. As Barrons’ Andrew Bary noted this weekend, a quarterly sales increase of 6% was hardly enough to justify the stock’s lofty valuation. Before Thursday’s earnings report, Costco traded at a record 48 times forward earnings. On Monday, Costco’s price-to-earnings ratio had ticked down to 43.6 — but […]