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COST vs WMT

Costco Wholesale Corporation and Walmart Inc., measured on the same ten characteristics.

Both sit in Discount Stores, so these figures are broadly like-for-like. They differ on 9 of 10 measured dimensions; anything within 2% is shown as level rather than split. Nothing here totals to a winner — which differences matter is your call, not ours.
Measure COST WMT
Quant Scoreour composite quality read62HIGHER45
Revenue growth (YoY)faster top-line growth+21.5%HIGHER+5.9%
Net marginmore of each sale kept+3.0%+3.0%
Gross marginpricing power+12.9%+25.2%HIGHER
P/Ea richer multiple, not automatically worse47.6×HIGHER37.2×
1-month moverecent price direction-0.9%HIGHER-7.0%
3-month movemedium-term price direction-5.7%HIGHER-12.8%
Betamoves more than the market0.86HIGHER0.60
Analyst upsidethird-party consensus, not our view+13.9%+23.9%HIGHER
Market capcompany size$419.3B$820.4BHIGHER

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