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Exhibit 99.1
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COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER AND FISCAL
YEAR 2019 OPERATING RESULTS
ISSAQUAH, Wash., October 3, 2019 - Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco or the Company) (Nasdaq: COST) today announced its operating results for the
16-week fourth quarter and the 52-week fiscal year, ended September 1, 2019.Net sales for the quarter were $46.45 billion, an increase of 7.0 percent from $43.41 billion during the similar period last year. Net sales for the fiscal year were $149.35 billion, an increase of 7.9 percent from $138.43 billion during the similar period last year.
Comparable sales for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year were as follows:
16 Weeks | 16 Weeks | 52 Weeks | 52 Weeks | |||||||||||||
Adjusted* | Adjusted* | |||||||||||||||
U.S. |
6.2 | % | 5.2 | % | 7.8 | % | 6.4 | % | ||||||||
Canada |
2.6 | % | 4.7 | % | 1.6 | % | 5.3 | % | ||||||||
Other International |
1.9 | % | 5.0 | % | 2.0 | % | 5.6 | % | ||||||||
Total Company |
5.1 | % | 5.1 | % | 6.1 | % | 6.1 | % | ||||||||
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E-commerce |
19.8 | % | 21.9 | % | 23.1 | % | 23.3 | % | ||||||||
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* | Excluding the impacts from changes in gasoline prices, foreign exchange, and a previously disclosed accounting change concerning revenue recognition (ASC 606). |
Net income for the fourth quarter was $1,097 million, or $2.47 per diluted share, compared to $1,043 million, or $2.36 per diluted share, last year. This years fourth quarter was negatively impacted by a $123 million pre-tax reserve to SG&A ($96 million after-tax), or 22 cents per diluted share, related to a product tax assessment.
Net income for the fiscal year was $3.66 billion, or $8.26 per diluted share, compared to $3.13 billion, or $7.09 per diluted share, in the prior year. As previously disclosed and mentioned above, this years net income was impacted by a net benefit of $30 million or $0.07 per diluted share from primarily non-recurring items. Last year was positively impacted by a first quarter tax benefit of $41 million or $0.09 per diluted share.
Costco currently operates 783 warehouses, including 544 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 100 in Canada, 39 in Mexico, 29 in the United Kingdom, 26 in Japan, 16 in Korea, 13 in Taiwan, 11 in Australia, two in Spain, one in France, one in Iceland, and one in China. Costco also operates e-commerce web sites in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Korea and Taiwan.
A conference call to discuss these results is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. (PT) today, October 3, 2019, and is available via a webcast on www.costco.com (click on Investor Relations and Play Webcast).
Certain statements contained in this document constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For these purposes, forward-looking statements are statements that address activities, events, conditions or developments that the Company expects or anticipates may occur in the future. In some cases forward-looking statements can be identified because they contain words
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Ticker: COST
CIK: 909832
Form Type: 10-K Annual Report
Accession Number: 0000909832-19-000019
Submitted to the SEC: Thu Oct 10 2019 6:06:12 PM EST
Accepted by the SEC: Fri Oct 11 2019
Period: Sunday, September 1, 2019
Industry: Retail Variety Stores