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Market Information and Dividend Policy
−Removed: Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “COST.” On October 1, 2024, we had 10,471 stockholders of record.
+Added: Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “COST.” On September 30, 2025, we had 10,813 stockholders of record.
Payment of dividends is subject to declaration by the Board of Directors.
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July 7—August 3, 2025 73,000 955.59 73,000 2,032
−Removed: August 5—September 1, 2024 88,000 865.39 88,000 2,865
+Added: August 4—August 31, 2025 72,000 966.22 72,000 1,962
Total fourth quarter 285,000 $ 983.13 285,000
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Performance Graph
−Removed: The following graph compares the cumulative total shareholder return assuming reinvestment of dividends on an investment of $100 in Costco common stock, S&P 500 Index, and the S&P Retail Select Index over the five years from September 1, 2019, through September 1, 2024.
+Added: The following graph compares the cumulative total shareholder return assuming reinvestment of dividends on an investment of $100 in Costco common stock, S&P 500 Index, and the S&P Retail Select Index over the five years from August 30, 2020, through August 31, 2025.
The S&P Retail Select Index comprises stocks in the S&P Total Market Index that are classified in the GICS Apparel Retail, Automotive Retail, Broadline Retail, Computer & Electronic Retail, Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail, Drug Retail, Food Retailers and Other Specialty Retail sub-industries.
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.