Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2021 Operating Results
December 10 2020 - 4:15PM
Costco Wholesale Corporation (“Costco” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:
COST) today announced its operating results for the first quarter
(twelve weeks) of fiscal 2021, ended November 22, 2020.
Net sales for the first quarter increased 16.9
percent, to $42.35 billion from $36.24 billion last year.
Comparable sales for the first quarter fiscal
2021 were as follows:
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12 Weeks |
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12 Weeks |
|
|
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Adjusted* |
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U.S. |
14.6% |
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17.0% |
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Canada |
16.2% |
|
16.8% |
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|
Other
International |
18.7% |
|
17.7% |
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|
|
|
|
|
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Total
Company |
15.4% |
|
17.1% |
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|
|
|
|
|
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E-commerce |
86.4% |
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86.2% |
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*Excluding the impacts from changes in gasoline
prices and foreign exchange. |
Net income for the quarter was $1,166 million,
or $2.62 per diluted share, compared to $844 million, or $1.90 per
diluted share, last year. This year’s first quarter included tax
benefits of $145 million or $0.33 per diluted share, $0.16 of which
was due to the deductibility of the $10 per share special cash
dividend, to the extent received by the Company’s 401(k) plan
participants; and $0.17 cents related to stock-based compensation.
Last year’s first quarter included a $77 million or $0.17 per
diluted share tax benefit related to stock-based compensation. This
year’s results reflect an expense for COVID-19 premium wages of
$212 million pre-tax or $0.35 per diluted share.
Costco currently operates 803 warehouses,
including 558 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 102 in Canada,
39 in Mexico, 29 in the United Kingdom, 27 in Japan, 16 in Korea,
14 in Taiwan, 12 in Australia, three in Spain, and one each in
Iceland, France, and China. Costco also operates e-commerce sites
in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Korea, Taiwan,
Japan, and Australia.
A conference call to discuss these results is
scheduled for 2:00 p.m. (PT) today, December 10, 2020, 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 such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,”
“estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “likely,” “may,” “might,” “plan,”
“potential,” “predict,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,”
“will,” “would,” or similar expressions and the negatives of those
terms. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties that may cause actual events, results or performance
to differ materially from those indicated by such statements. These
risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, domestic
and international economic conditions, including exchange rates,
the effects of competition and regulation, uncertainties in the
financial markets, consumer and small business spending patterns
and debt levels, breaches of security or privacy of member or
business information, conditions affecting the acquisition,
development, ownership or use of real estate, capital spending,
actions of vendors, rising costs associated with employees
(generally including health-care costs), energy and certain
commodities, geopolitical conditions (including tariffs), the
ability to maintain effective internal control over financial
reporting, COVID-19 related factors and challenges, including
(among others) the duration of the pandemic, the unknown long-term
economic impact, reduced shopping due to illness, travel
restrictions or financial hardship, shifts in demand away from
discretionary or higher-priced products, reduced workforces due to
illness, quarantine, or government mandates, temporary store
closures due to reduced workforces or government mandates, or
supply-chain disruptions, capacity constraints of third-party
logistics suppliers, and other risks identified from time to time
in the Company’s public statements and reports filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the Company
does not undertake to update these statements, except as required
by law.
CONTACTS: |
Costco
Wholesale Corporation |
|
Richard Galanti, 425/313-8203 |
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Bob Nelson, 425/313-8255 |
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David Sherwood, 425/313-8239 |
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Josh Dahmen, 425/313-8254 |
COSTCO WHOLESALE
CORPORATION CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
INCOME (dollars in millions, except per share
data) (unaudited)
|
12 Weeks Ended |
|
November 22, 2020 |
|
November 24, 2019 |
REVENUE |
|
|
|
Net sales |
$ |
42,347 |
|
|
$ |
36,236 |
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Membership fees |
861 |
|
|
804 |
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Total revenue |
43,208 |
|
|
37,040 |
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OPERATING EXPENSES |
|
|
|
Merchandise costs |
37,458 |
|
|
32,233 |
|
Selling, general and administrative |
4,298 |
|
|
3,732 |
|
Preopening expenses |
22 |
|
|
14 |
|
Operating income |
1,430 |
|
|
1,061 |
|
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE) |
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Interest expense |
(39 |
) |
|
(38 |
) |
Interest income and other, net |
29 |
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|
35 |
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INCOME BEFORE INCOME
TAXES |
1,420 |
|
|
1,058 |
|
Provision for income taxes |
239 |
|
|
202 |
|
Net income including noncontrolling interests |
1,181 |
|
|
856 |
|
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests |
(15 |
) |
|
(12 |
) |
NET
INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO
COSTCO |
$ |
1,166 |
|
|
$ |
844 |
|
|
|
|
|
NET
INCOME PER COMMON SHARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO COSTCO: |
|
|
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Basic |
$ |
2.63 |
|
|
$ |
1.91 |
|
Diluted |
$ |
2.62 |
|
|
$ |
1.90 |
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|
|
|
|
Shares used
in calculation (000’s): |
|
|
|
Basic |
442,952 |
|
|
441,818 |
|
Diluted |
444,386 |
|
|
443,680 |
|
|
|
|
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COSTCO WHOLESALE
CORPORATION CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(amounts in millions, except par value and share
data) (unaudited)
Subject to Reclassification
|
|
|
November 22, 2020 |
|
August 30, 2020 |
ASSETS |
|
|
|
CURRENT ASSETS |
|
|
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Cash and cash equivalents |
$ |
13,590 |
|
|
$ |
12,277 |
|
Short-term investments |
833 |
|
|
1,028 |
|
Receivables, net |
1,646 |
|
|
1,550 |
|
Merchandise inventories |
14,901 |
|
|
12,242 |
|
Other current assets |
1,126 |
|
|
1,023 |
|
Total current assets |
32,096 |
|
|
28,120 |
|
OTHER ASSETS |
|
|
|
Property and equipment, net |
22,288 |
|
|
21,807 |
|
Operating lease right-of-use assets |
2,785 |
|
|
2,788 |
|
Other long-term assets |
3,048 |
|
|
2,841 |
|
TOTAL
ASSETS |
$ |
60,217 |
|
|
$ |
55,556 |
|
LIABILITIES
AND EQUITY |
|
|
|
CURRENT LIABILITIES |
|
|
|
Accounts payable |
$ |
17,014 |
|
|
$ |
14,172 |
|
Accrued salaries and benefits |
3,586 |
|
|
3,605 |
|
Accrued member rewards |
1,451 |
|
|
1,393 |
|
Deferred membership fees |
1,985 |
|
|
1,851 |
|
Current portion of long-term debt |
96 |
|
|
95 |
|
Other current liabilities |
8,535 |
|
|
3,728 |
|
Total current liabilities |
32,667 |
|
|
24,844 |
|
OTHER LIABILITIES |
|
|
|
Long-term debt, excluding current portion |
7,529 |
|
|
7,514 |
|
Long-term operating lease liabilities |
2,574 |
|
|
2,558 |
|
Other long-term liabilities |
2,138 |
|
|
1,935 |
|
TOTAL
LIABILITIES |
44,908 |
|
|
36,851 |
|
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES |
|
|
|
EQUITY |
|
|
|
Preferred stock $0.01 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; no
shares issued and outstanding |
— |
|
|
— |
|
Common stock $0.01 par value; 900,000,000 shares authorized;
442,955,000 and 441,255,000 shares issued and outstanding |
4 |
|
|
4 |
|
Additional paid-in capital |
6,725 |
|
|
6,698 |
|
Accumulated other comprehensive loss |
(1,101 |
) |
|
(1,297 |
) |
Retained earnings |
9,232 |
|
|
12,879 |
|
Total Costco stockholders’ equity |
14,860 |
|
|
18,284 |
|
Noncontrolling interests |
449 |
|
|
421 |
|
TOTAL
EQUITY |
15,309 |
|
|
18,705 |
|
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND
EQUITY |
$ |
60,217 |
|
|
$ |
55,556 |
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