Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

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Costco Wholesale / Equity Capital Markets

<ul><li>Costco delivered a strong set of results in the previous quarter with a particularly solid performance from categories like candy, sundries, tires, toys, jewelry, kiosks, home furnishings, apparel, bakery, and deli.</li><li>The company’s membership fee income was $984 million, or 91% of sales, compared to $901 million, or 03% last year.</li><li>Furthermore, they had 64.4 million paid households and 116.6 million cardholders at the end of Q3, up over 6% from a year ago.</li></ul>

Costco delivered a strong set of results in the previous quarter with a particularly solid performance from categories like candy, sundries, tires, toys, jewelry, kiosks, home furnishings, apparel, bakery, and deli.The company’s membership fee income was $984 million, or 91% of sales, compared to $901 million, or 03% last year.Furthermore, they had 64.4 million paid households and 116.6 million cardholders at the end of Q3, up over 6% from a year ago.

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

Uncompromised, Independent, Conflict-Free Research

Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/brambles-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:693:1" rel="noopener">Brambles Ltd (BXB AU)</a> responded to press speculation by stating it had preliminary discussions with CVC Capital on a privatisation proposal. The shares rose 11.2% to close at A$11.60.</li>
<li>The AFR’s rumour of “<em>a bid valuing Brambles at more than $20 billion, including debt</em>” would imply an offer price around A$11.50, a 10% premium to the undisturbed price.</li>
<li>As the Australian takeover premium ranges from 20% to 40%, we think that a bid of around A$13 per share (25% takeover premium) will be necessary for due diligence access.</li>
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Brambles Ltd (BXB AU) responded to press speculation by stating it had preliminary discussions with CVC Capital on a privatisation proposal. The shares rose 11.2% to close at A$11.60.
The AFR’s rumour of “a bid valuing Brambles at more than $20 billion, including debt” would imply an offer price around A$11.50, a 10% premium to the undisturbed price.
As the Australian takeover premium ranges from 20% to 40%, we think that a bid of around A$13 per share (25% takeover premium) will be necessary for due diligence access.


<ul><li>Costco has delivered an outstanding result with a rise in net sales over the year.</li><li>Interestingly, Costco has an increased penetration of executive members who renew at a rate higher than non-executive members.</li><li>Despite the increasing and ongoing inflationary pressures, the company has maintained gross margins well on account of price increases.</li></ul>

Costco has delivered an outstanding result with a rise in net sales over the year.Interestingly, Costco has an increased penetration of executive members who renew at a rate higher than non-executive members.Despite the increasing and ongoing inflationary pressures, the company has maintained gross margins well on account of price increases.

Costco Wholesale Corp.: Financial & Price Forecasts

<ul><li>Costco has been on a roll as the company had an outstanding month of September with net sales of $19.5 billion for the 5-week period ended October 3, 2021, up 15.8% year over year.</li><li>This comes after a strong fourth quarter of fiscal 2021 where Costco reported an increase in net sales of 17.5% to $61.44 billion.</li><li>It is looking to battle inflation by increasing some of the product pricing and should also increase membership pricing in 2022.</li></ul>

Costco has been on a roll as the company had an outstanding month of September with net sales of $19.5 billion for the 5-week period ended October 3, 2021, up 15.8% year over year.This comes after a strong fourth quarter of fiscal 2021 where Costco reported an increase in net sales of 17.5% to $61.44 billion.It is looking to battle inflation by increasing some of the product pricing and should also increase membership pricing in 2022.

Costco Wholesale Corporation - Investment Thesis

Expert on Japan Retail and Consumer Markets, JapanConsuming

Michael Causton

Expert on Japan Retail and Consumer Markets

Real Insight on Japanese Consumer Markets

JapanConsuming

JapanConsuming is a specialist research firm producing intelligence on Japanese retail and consumer markets. Founded in 2000, JapanConsuming has become the leading provider of insights on Japanese retailers and consumer trends to retailers, brands, government agencies and investors. As well as a highly regarded monthly report on the market, JapanConsuming produces in-depth reports on retail sectors, seminars on key trends and telephone consulting to investors on trends and retailers.

JapanConsuming was founded by Michael Causton and Roy Larke. 

Equity Bottom-Up

<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/metro-ag" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21673:1" rel="noopener">METRO AG (MEO GR)</a> will close its Japan operations at the end of October. It follows <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/carrefour-sa" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21409:1" rel="noopener">Carrefour SA (CA FP)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tesco-plc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22187:1" rel="noopener">Tesco PLC (TSCO LN)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/walmart-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:11134:1" rel="noopener">Walmart (WMT US)</a> as the latest major international player to try and fail in the Japanese market and leaves Costco as the only international chain retailer – but a clearly successful one at least. </p>

METRO AG (MEO GR) will close its Japan operations at the end of October. It follows Carrefour SA (CA FP), Tesco PLC (TSCO LN) and Walmart (WMT US) as the latest major international player to try and fail in the Japanese market and leaves Costco as the only international chain retailer – but a clearly successful one at least. 

United States

Costco Wholesale Corporation operates wholesale membership warehouses in multiple countries.  The Company sells all kinds of food, automotive supplies, toys, hardware, sporting goods, jewelry, electronics, apparel, health and beauty aids, as well as other goods.

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