During the past 12 months, Costco Wholesale's average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 13.30% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 3.60% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 13.20% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 17.30% per year.
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During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Costco Wholesale was 73.30% per year. The lowest was -93.00% per year. And the median was 6.00% per year.
Competitive Comparison of Costco Wholesale's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate
For the Discount Stores subindustry, Costco Wholesale's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year FCF Growth Rate data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Costco Wholesale's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry
For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Costco Wholesale's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Costco Wholesale's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate falls into.
This is the 3-year average growth rate of Free Cash Flow per Share. The growth rate is calculated using exponential compounding based on the latest four year annual data.
Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Free Cash Flow per Share growth rate.
Free Cash Flow per Share is the amount of Free Cash Flow per outstanding share of the company's stock. Free Cash Flow is considered one of the most important parameters to measure a company's earnings power by value investors because it is not subject to estimates of Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization (DDA). However, when we look at the Free Cash Flow, we should look from a long term perspective, because any year's Free Cash Flow can be drastically affected by the spending on Property, Plant, & Equipment (PPE) of the business in that year. Over the long term, Free Cash Flow should give pretty good picture on the real earnings power of the company. It's used in the calculation of Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %.
Costco Wholesale 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Related Terms
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Costco operates a membership-based, no-frills retail model, predicated on offering a select product assortment in bulk quantities at bargain prices. The firm avoids maintaining costly product displays by keeping inventory on pallets and limits distribution expenses by storing its inventory at point of sale in the warehouse. Given Costco's frugal cost structure, the firm is able to price its merchandise below competing retailers, driving high sales volume per warehouse and allowing the retailer to generate strong profits on thin margins. Costco operates nearly 600 warehouses in the United States and boasts over 60% market share in the domestic warehouse club industry. Internationally, Costco operates another 270 warehouses, primarily in markets such as Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the U.K.
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