Recent developments at Costco highlight a strong focus on enhancing the shopping experience through improved checkout efficiency, which is expected to boost customer satisfaction. Product availability is being optimized to align with consumer preferences, as seen in the return of Coca-Cola offerings. Additionally, Costco is committed to innovating its product line and expanding its consumer rewards programs, both of which are likely to attract new members. However, keeping pace with changing consumer trends and preferences remains a challenge.

The price action of Costco (COST) is impacted by broad market risk appetite, sector price trend, company-specific performance and market structure. The trend sentiment at 2.1 is extremely bullish. The market sentiment at 1.5 is very bullish. Trend sentiment measures the current trend of the stock price, and market sentiment reflects what market participants collectively think where the price will move next.COST is likely to move up since both trend sentiment and market sentiment are positive. The positive sentiment force for sector is at 2, and the negative at -0.5 on 2026-01-20. The forces of Valuation Sentiment (4), Sentiment towards Fundamentals (3.4), Stock Price Trend (2.1), Option Sentiment (1.5), and Sector Price Trend (1.4) will drive up the price. The forces of Price Level Sentiment (-0.5), and Market Risk Appetite (-2.7) will drive down the price. The sentiment for Sector Price Trend is calculated based on the price trend of related sector ETF. The sentiment for Option Speculation is calculated from put/call ratio. The Risk Appetite is calculated from Bitcoin price trend. Price Level sentiment is positive when oversold, and negative when overbought. Valuation Sentiment, and Sentimentals towards Fundamentals are extracted from headlines and market commentary. All sentiment scores are normalized on a -10 - +10 scale. The price level reaches 100 at Bollinger upper band, and zero at lower band.

Earning Release: 2026-03-05 02:00, EPS: $18.69, P/E: 51.59

COST
Date	Attention	Price	Price Level	Change	10 Day Trend	Trend Sentiment	Hourly Trend	Hourly StdDev	Market Sentiment	Action	P	Fund.	News Sentiment
2026-01-20	0%(0.3%)	964.26	91	0.07%	0.95%	2.1	0.04%	0.5%	1.4	Long	55%	3.4	-1
2026-01-19	0%(0.3%)					3.8	0.09%		2.3			3.1	-1
2026-01-18	1%(0.3%)					3.8	0.09%		2.3			3.1	6
2026-01-17	1%(0.1%)					3.8	0.09%		2.1			3	3
2026-01-16	0%(0%)	963.61	96	0.72%	1.19%	3.8	0.09%	0.3%	2.4	Long	60%	3.4	-1
2026-01-15	0%(0%)	956.75	98	0.61%	1.05%	3.7	0.08%	0.6%	2.2	Long	70%	3.1	-1
2026-01-14	0%(0%)	950.98	103	0.96%	0.95%	4.8	0.04%	0.6%	2.5	Long	70%	3.7	0.5
2026-01-13	0%(0%)	941.93	106	-0.12%	0.83%	4.1	0.07%	0.7%	2.1	Long	70%	4.1	-4
2026-01-12	0%(0%)	943.08	119	1.97%	0.79%	4.3	0.09%	1%	1.7	Long	70%	4.1	-1
2026-01-11	0%(0.1%)					2.9	0.2%		1.7			3.6	-1
Long is the preferred trading strategy with 55% chance of being right. Improving trend sentiment and positive hourly trend. Wait action is recommended in three scenarios with either high uncertainty or high risk: 1. The trend sentiment and market sentiment are at the opposite directions. 2. Both trend sentiment and market sentiment are positive, but the price level is elevated. 3. Both trend sentiment and market sentiment are negative, but the price level is depressed. In an uptrend, as an investor, you may want to wait for the pullback to open long position. In a downtrend, the price will likely rebound after huge decline. As an investor, you may want to wait for the rebound to exit long position.
Market sentiment will accelerate the current trend when both trend sentiment and market sentiment are at the same direction. Market sentiment will generate volatility when it's at the opposite direction of the trend sentiment. News sentiment measures the daily emotion of the market. News sentiment may impact the daily price change while market sentiment is a more stable and consistent moving force.