BMO Capital Reiterates Outperform on Costco Wholesale (COST) Following 1Q Report

UBS Remains Bullish on Costco Wholesale (COST) Following 1Q EPS Miss

UBS reiterated a Buy rating and $175.00 price target on Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) following the company's 1Q earnings report. COST reported an EPS shortfall of $1.17, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.19.

Analyst Michael Lasser commented, "We think COSTs F1Q provided healthy evidence to refute the downside hypothesis. If COST were... More

Cowen Reiterates Outperform on Costco Wholesale (COST)

Cowen reiterated an Outperform rating and $170.00 price target on Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) following the company's 1Q earnings report. 1Q comps overall came in at +1% and flat on a 2-year stacked basis, improving by +100bps on a 2-year stacked basis.

Analyst Oliver Chen... More

Wall Street again marks new highs in post-election run

By Lewis Krauskopf

(Reuters) - Major U.S. stock indexes climbed again on Thursday and set fresh record highs as a month-long rally following the presidential election of Donald Trump rolled on.

Investors have driven up equities since Trump's Nov. 8 election over optimism about domestic economic stimulus and reduced corporate taxes and regulations.

Supporting the upbeat sentiment on Thursday was a report that showed the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell from a five-month high last week, pointing to labor market strength that underscored the economy's momentum.

"This is just a continued melt-up... More

Credit Suisse Assumes Costco Wholesale (COST) at Outperform; Sees Re-Acceleration in Momentum

Credit Suisse assumes coverage on Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) with a Outperform rating and a price target of $175.00 (from $165.00), saying momentum is poised to re-accelerate.

Analyst Edward Kelly commented, "We have assumed coverage of COST with an Outperform rating, and raised... More

Options expected to have Increasing volume: COST HRB LULU SHLD HLT X TLRD GLW UNFI

Options expected to have Increasing volume: COST HRB LULU SHLD HLT X TLRD GLW UNFI

After-Hours Stock Movers 12/07: (VYGR) (LULU) (HRB( Higher; (OHRP) (VRNT) (CMTL) Lower (more...)

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Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: VYGR) 35.2% HIGHER; announced positive results from the ongoing Phase 1b trial of VY-AADC01 at six and twelve months of follow-up in patients with advanced Parkinsons disease. The interim data from Cohorts 1 and 2 of this trial demonstrated that accurate MRI-guided delivery of escalating doses of VY-AADC01 were well tolerated and resulted in increased coverage of the putamen, increased AADC enzyme activity, enhanced response to levodopa, and dose-related, clinically meaningful improvements in various measures of patients motor function. This was... More

Costco Wholesale (COST) Tops Q1 EPS by 5c; Comps Up 1%, 2% Ex-Gas

Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) reported Q1 EPS of $1.24, $0.05 better than the analyst estimate of $1.19. Revenue for the quarter came in at $28.1 billion versus the consensus estimate of $28.3 billion.

Comparable sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 were as follows:

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Costco Wholesale (COST) December weekly 152.50 straddle priced for movement of 3% into Q1

Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) December weekly 152.50 straddle priced for movement of 3% into Q1

Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) weekly volatility increases into Q1 and outlook

Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) December weekly call option implied volatility is at 43, December is at 27, January is at 19; compared to its 52-week range of 14 to 28 into the expected release of Q1 results on December 7.

Options expected to have Increasing volume: BOBE KMI COST TOL HRB LULU

Options expected to have Increasing volume: BOBE KMI COST TOL HRB LULU