Costco Wholesale Corp
COST- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Industry
- Retail-Variety Stores
- SEC CIK
- 0000909832
In the last 90 days, Costco Wholesale Corp insiders filed 0 open-market purchases and 2 sales; 4,261 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $301.8B in total; 4 superinvestors hold it, including Markel Group and Gardner Russo & Quinn.
13F holders, Q1 2023
Institutional positions in Costco Wholesale Corp as of Mar 31, 2023. Investment managers with $100 million or more in US stocks report their long positions on Form 13F within 45 days after each quarter ends. How 13F works
- Institutional holders
- 2,943
- +67 vs. Q4 2022
- Shares held
- 349.1M
- +49.1M (+16.4%) vs. Q4 2022
- Total value
- $149.2B
- +$12.2B (+8.9%) vs. Q4 2022
- New holders
- 195
- 1,254 more added
- Sold out
- 128
- 1,084 more reduced
62 institutions that held it in Q4 2022 haven't filed for Q1 2023 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q4 2022: new holders, sold out and not filed yet
Holders and value by quarter
Institutions reporting COST on Form 13F each quarter since Q1 2021, and the total value they reported. Values are as of each quarter end, so they also move with the share price.
| Quarter | Holders | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 4,261 | $301.8B |
| Q1 2026 | 4,274 | $311.5B |
| Q4 2025 | 4,138 | $272.0B |
| Q3 2025 | 3,941 | $274.4B |
| Q2 2025 | 4,011 | $302.3B |
| Q1 2025 | 3,952 | $287.8B |
| Q4 2024 | 3,941 | $279.6B |
| Q3 2024 | 3,590 | $266.7B |
| Q2 2024 | 3,526 | $258.3B |
| Q1 2024 | 3,419 | $222.0B |
| Q4 2023 | 3,343 | $201.0B |
| Q3 2023 | 3,077 | $169.9B |
| Q2 2023 | 3,041 | $162.0B |
| Q1 2023 | 2,943 | $149.2B |
| Q4 2022 | 2,938 | $137.2B |
| Q3 2022 | 2,825 | $141.6B |
| Q2 2022 | 2,784 | $143.4B |
| Q1 2022 | 2,862 | $172.4B |
| Q4 2021 | 2,823 | $170.2B |
| Q3 2021 | 2,463 | $134.3B |
| Q2 2021 | 2,394 | $119.0B |
| Q1 2021 | 2,359 | $104.1B |
Institutions, Q1 2023
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Costco Wholesale Corp; share changes are against Q4 2022.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General American Investors Co Inc | 53,000 | $26.3M | 2.49% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Nippon Life Global Investors Americas, Inc. | 53,020 | $26.3M | 1.69% | −9,080−14.6% | Reduced |
| Cumberland Partners Ltd | 53,148 | $26.4M | 2.59% | −4,638−8.0% | Reduced |
| Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Company, Ltd | 53,482 | $26.6M | 0.58% | −4,862−8.3% | Reduced |
| Ziegler Capital Management, LLC | 53,867 | $26.8M | 1.06% | +3,722+7.4% | Added |
| Ocean Capital Management, LLC | 54,198 | $26.9M | 13.59% | +143+0.3% | Added |
| Kestra Advisory Services, LLC | 54,712 | $27.2M | 0.29% | −13,025−19.2% | Reduced |
| Randolph Co Inc | 54,880 | $27.3M | 3.94% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Baldwin Brothers Inc | 54,895 | $27.3M | 2.38% | −409−0.7% | Reduced |
| Element Capital Management LLC | 54,910 | $27.3M | 2.06% | +54,910 | New |
| Ieq Capital, LLC | 55,546 | $27.6M | 0.64% | +2,748+5.2% | Added |
| Thrivent Financial for Lutherans | 56,195 | $27.9M | 0.07% | −95,018−62.8% | Reduced |
| Braun Stacey Associates Inc | 56,182 | $27.9M | 0.73% | +30,788+121.2% | Added |
| Daiwa Securities Group Inc. | 56,599 | $28.1M | 0.20% | +3,504+6.6% | Added |
| B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. AG | 56,614 | $28.1M | 0.44% | +757+1.4% | Added |
| Shelton Capital Management | 56,686 | $28.2M | 1.18% | +40,186+243.6% | Added |
| Nordea Investment Management AB | 57,588 | $28.5M | 0.04% | −39,135−40.5% | Reduced |
| Pittenger & Anderson Inc | 57,671 | $28.7M | 1.48% | −351−0.6% | Reduced |
| AE Wealth Management LLC | 57,693 | $28.7M | 0.18% | +891+1.6% | Added |
| RWC Asset Management LLP | 57,702 | $28.7M | 0.88% | −2,283−3.8% | Reduced |
| Congress Wealth Management LLC | 57,974 | $28.8M | 0.69% | +188+0.3% | Added |
| Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd | 58,287 | $29.0M | 0.61% | −15,244−20.7% | Reduced |
| Whittier Trust Co | 58,290 | $29.0M | 0.53% | +387+0.7% | Added |
| BI Asset Management Fondsmaeglerselskab A/S | 59,858 | $29.7M | 0.79% | −7,939−11.7% | Reduced |
| Railway Pension Investments Ltd | 60,142 | $29.9M | 0.31% | −171,870−74.1% | Reduced |
| Mercer Global Advisors Inc | 60,253 | $29.9M | 0.14% | +439+0.7% | Added |
| Asset Advisors Investment Management, LLC | 60,518 | $30.1M | 3.93% | −1,019−1.7% | Reduced |
| Guardian Capital LP | 60,523 | $30.1M | 0.96% | +394+0.7% | Added |
| Cornerstone Advisors, LLC | 60,700 | $30.2M | 1.40% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Scopus Asset Management, L.P. | 61,000 | $30.3M | 1.13% | +61,000 | New |
| Howard Capital Management Group, LLC | 61,201 | $30.4M | 3.22% | −247−0.4% | Reduced |
| Dundas Partners LLP | 62,170 | $30.9M | 3.23% | −1,225−1.9% | Reduced |
| Norman Fields, Gottscho Capital Management, LLC | 62,396 | $31.0M | 13.69% | −615−1.0% | Reduced |
| Pacific Heights Asset Management LLC | 62,500 | $31.1M | 2.92% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Klingenstein Fields & Co LP | 62,514 | $31.1M | 1.55% | −471−0.7% | Reduced |
| Bank of Nova Scotia | 62,858 | $31.2M | 0.09% | −7,043−10.1% | Reduced |
| Westpac Banking Corp | 63,367 | $31.5M | 0.42% | −180.0% | Reduced |
| Mutual of America Capital Management LLC | 63,530 | $31.6M | 0.38% | +264+0.4% | Added |
| Cannell Peter B & Co Inc | 63,553 | $31.6M | 1.13% | −450−0.7% | Reduced |
| EULAV Asset Management | 63,800 | $31.7M | 1.25% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Violich Capital Management, Inc. | 63,935 | $31.8M | 5.41% | −400−0.6% | Reduced |
| Industrial Alliance Investment Management Inc. | 64,254 | $31.9M | 0.89% | −12,737−16.5% | Reduced |
| Cetera Advisor Networks LLC | 64,298 | $31.9M | 0.24% | +1,062+1.7% | Added |
| Flputnam Investment Management Co | 64,536 | $32.1M | 1.05% | +2,434+3.9% | Added |
| Chesley Taft & Associates LLC | 65,483 | $32.5M | 2.13% | −205−0.3% | Reduced |
| MML Investors Services, LLC | 65,985 | $32.8M | 0.23% | −7,526−10.2% | Reduced |
| Capital Investment Counsel, Inc | 66,094 | $32.8M | 7.49% | −5,621−7.8% | Reduced |
| Border to Coast Pensions Partnership Ltd | 66,483 | $33.0M | 0.89% | +11,177+20.2% | Added |
| Yousif Capital Management, LLC | 66,963 | $33.3M | 0.43% | −3,202−4.6% | Reduced |
| KBC Group NV | 67,970 | $33.8M | 0.14% | +3,789+5.9% | Added |
| Aristotle Atlantic Partners, LLC | 68,019 | $33.8M | 1.74% | +442+0.7% | Added |
| Maple Capital Management, Inc. | 68,669 | $34.1M | 4.17% | +1,461+2.2% | Added |
| Investment House LLC | 69,450 | $34.5M | 2.84% | −380−0.5% | Reduced |
| State of Alaska, Department of Revenue | 70,071 | $34.8M | 0.41% | −825−1.2% | Reduced |
| MAI Capital Management | 70,462 | $35.0M | 0.56% | +2,778+4.1% | Added |
| Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund | 70,915 | $35.2M | 0.75% | +13,845+24.3% | Added |
| Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund | 71,601 | $35.6M | 0.44% | −2,798−3.8% | Reduced |
| Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co | 72,185 | $35.9M | 1.37% | −460−0.6% | Reduced |
| Hyman Charles D | 73,036 | $36.3M | 2.42% | −701−1.0% | Reduced |
| Tandem Investment Advisors, Inc. | 74,260 | $36.9M | 1.77% | −1,236−1.6% | Reduced |
| Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. | 74,389 | $37.0M | 0.46% | +12,645+20.5% | Added |
| New York Life Investment Management LLC | 75,181 | $37.4M | 0.42% | +5,720+8.2% | Added |
| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Public School Empls Retrmt Sys | 75,223 | $37.4M | 0.32% | +408+0.5% | Added |
| Tredje AP-fonden | 75,224 | $37.4M | 0.58% | +3,493+4.9% | Added |
| Jarislowsky, Fraser Ltd | 75,559 | $37.5M | 0.23% | −3,506−4.4% | Reduced |
| Federation des caisses Desjardins du Quebec | 75,581 | $37.6M | 0.41% | −1,396−1.8% | Reduced |
| Pinebridge Investments, L.P. | 76,270 | $37.9M | 0.43% | +367+0.5% | Added |
| Dearborn Partners LLC | 76,739 | $38.1M | 1.50% | −1,087−1.4% | Reduced |
| Windward Capital Management Co | 76,791 | $38.2M | 3.52% | +1,726+2.3% | Added |
| Baskin Financial Services Inc. | 76,853 | $38.2M | 4.01% | −1,061−1.4% | Reduced |
| Ossiam | 77,756 | $38.6M | 0.80% | +66,550+593.9% | Added |
| Badgley Phelps Wealth Managers, LLC | 78,726 | $39.1M | 1.44% | +197+0.3% | Added |
| Utah Retirement Systems | 78,885 | $39.2M | 0.57% | +250+0.3% | Added |
| IFM Investors Pty Ltd | 79,240 | $39.4M | 0.60% | +2,389+3.1% | Added |
| Chicago Capital, LLC | 81,191 | $40.3M | 2.01% | −200.0% | Reduced |
| Cooper Investors Pty Ltd | 81,718 | $40.6M | 3.46% | +7,500+10.1% | Added |
| Findlay Park Partners LLP | 82,093 | $40.8M | 0.43% | +82,093 | New |
| Hyperion Asset Management Ltd | 82,579 | $41.0M | 2.14% | +3,297+4.2% | Added |
| Stonegate Investment Group, LLC | 82,678 | $41.1M | 1.54% | +6,652+8.7% | Added |
| Trillium Asset Management, LLC | 82,312 | $41.4M | 1.21% | −1,747−2.1% | Reduced |
| Artemis Investment Management LLP | 84,377 | $41.8M | 0.51% | −691−0.8% | Reduced |
| Kames Capital plc | 84,345 | $41.9M | 0.73% | +75,729+878.9% | Added |
| Acadian Asset Management LLC | 85,473 | $42.5M | 0.19% | −184,916−68.4% | Reduced |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | 86,160 | $42.8M | 0.05% | −370,715−81.1% | Reduced |
| Covea Finance | 86,386 | $42.9M | 2.44% | −11,143−11.4% | Reduced |
| Ami Asset Management Corp | 86,566 | $43.0M | 2.75% | +14,535+20.2% | Added |
| Pictet & Cie (Europe) SA | 87,210 | $43.3M | 1.80% | −4,290−4.7% | Reduced |
| Financial Counselors Inc | 88,068 | $43.8M | 0.94% | −1,054−1.2% | Reduced |
| Boston Financial Mangement LLC | 89,258 | $44.3M | 1.73% | −766−0.9% | Reduced |
| Los Angeles Capital Management LLC | 91,350 | $45.4M | 0.20% | −55,767−37.9% | Reduced |
| Fjarde Ap-Fonden /Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund | 91,657 | $45.5M | 0.61% | −600−0.7% | Reduced |
| Regions Financial Corp | 92,106 | $45.8M | 0.41% | +796+0.9% | Added |
| Nissay Asset Management Corp | 92,167 | $45.8M | 0.41% | +13,954+17.8% | Added |
| Texas Permanent School Fund | 92,510 | $46.0M | 0.46% | +29,625+47.1% | Added |
| Destination Wealth Management | 92,673 | $46.0M | 1.75% | +180+0.2% | Added |
| Millennium Management LLC | 93,449 | $46.4M | 0.05% | −268,284−74.2% | Reduced |
| Lazard Freres Gestion S.A.S. | 105,177 | $46.6M | 1.72% | +10,428+11.0% | Added |
| Oppenheimer & Co Inc | 94,832 | $47.1M | 1.00% | +709+0.8% | Added |
| DnB Asset Management AS | 95,092 | $47.2M | 0.30% | +792+0.8% | Added |
| Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp | 96,103 | $47.8M | 0.91% | −1,171−1.2% | Reduced |