Costco Wholesale Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of COST?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	11,919	0.00269%
State or Government	448,974	0.101%
Individual Insiders	776,331	0.175%
General Public	133,153,145	30%
Institutions	308,944,655	69.7%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 41.05% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.33%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	41,373,546	AR$36.0t	1.32%	0.55%
7.49%	BlackRock, Inc.	33,186,596	AR$28.9t	2.58%	0.48%
4.2%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	18,628,087	AR$16.2t	0.59%	0.63%
2.1%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	9,324,866	AR$8.1t	2.58%	0.61%
1.78%	FMR LLC	7,912,869	AR$6.9t	-4.07%	0.42%
1.26%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	5,596,615	AR$4.9t	0.9%	0.59%
1.26%	UBS Asset Management AG	5,566,977	AR$4.8t	8.66%	0.53%
1.2%	Norges Bank Investment Management	5,313,432	AR$4.6t	-3.35%	0.37%
1.1%	Capital Research and Management Company	4,875,016	AR$4.2t	2.29%	0.21%
1.09%	Northern Trust Global Investments	4,823,710	AR$4.2t	-0.41%	0.65%
0.97%	AllianceBernstein L.P.	4,316,344	AR$3.8t	2.1%	1.17%
0.82%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	3,650,562	AR$3.2t	2.49%	0.6%
0.82%	BNY Asset Management	3,624,062	AR$3.2t	-4.45%	0.58%
0.8%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	3,557,099	AR$3.1t	-1.37%	0.8%
0.78%	Eaton Vance Management	3,439,363	AR$3.0t	2.43%	0.73%
0.74%	Jennison Associates LLC	3,273,683	AR$2.9t	0.83%	1.75%
0.68%	Wells Fargo & Company, Securities and Brokerage Investments	3,006,890	AR$2.6t	2.15%	0.82%
0.67%	Fisher Asset Management, LLC	2,955,901	AR$2.6t	3.3%	1.11%
0.63%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	2,777,304	AR$2.4t	2.74%	0.4%
0.62%	Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Banking Investments	2,745,236	AR$2.4t	-0.34%	0.9%
0.61%	Managed Account Advisors LLC	2,709,849	AR$2.4t	-4.84%	0.46%
0.54%	JP Morgan Asset Management	2,407,556	AR$2.1t	-5.2%	0.24%
0.53%	Invesco Capital Management LLC	2,365,570	AR$2.1t	16.1%	0.89%
0.52%	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.	2,309,223	AR$2.0t	-1.02%	0.54%
0.51%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	2,261,965	AR$2.0t	35.7%	0.4%