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Financial giants have made a conspicuous bullish move on Costco Wholesale. Our analysis of options history for Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) revealed 41 unusual trades.
Delving into the details, we found 46% of traders were bullish, while 29% showed bearish tendencies. Out of all the trades we spotted, 5 were puts, with a value of $460,708, and 36 were calls, valued at $4,673,027.
After evaluating the trading volumes and Open Interest, it's evident that the major market movers are focusing on a price band between $255.0 and $1100.0 for Costco Wholesale, spanning the last three months.
In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for Costco Wholesale options trades today is 224.82 with a total volume of 2,474.00.
In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for Costco Wholesale's big money trades within a strike price range of $255.0 to $1100.0 over the last 30 days.
Symbol | PUT/CALL | Trade Type | Sentiment | Exp. Date | Ask | Bid | Price | Strike Price | Total Trade Price | Open Interest | Volume |
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COST | CALL | TRADE | BULLISH | 03/21/25 | $93.6 | $91.7 | $92.9 | $870.00 | $1.3M | 50 | 150 |
COST | CALL | TRADE | BEARISH | 01/16/26 | $642.85 | $638.0 | $638.0 | $265.00 | $446.6K | 37 | 10 |
COST | CALL | TRADE | BULLISH | 01/16/26 | $626.0 | $623.05 | $626.0 | $275.00 | $438.2K | 113 | 10 |
COST | CALL | TRADE | BEARISH | 06/20/25 | $49.95 | $49.0 | $49.0 | $1000.00 | $367.5K | 167 | 77 |
COST | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 01/17/25 | $501.0 | $501.0 | $501.0 | $395.00 | $350.7K | 38 | 7 |
Costco operates a membership-based, no-frills retail model, predicated on offering a select product assortment in bulk quantities at bargain prices. The firm avoids maintaining costly product displays by keeping inventory on pallets and limits distribution expenses by storing its inventory at point of sale in the warehouse. Given Costco's frugal cost structure, the firm is able to price its merchandise below competing retailers, driving high sales volume per warehouse and allowing the retailer to generate strong profits on thin margins. Costco operates over 600 warehouses in the United States and enjoys over 60% market share in the domestic warehouse club industry. Internationally, Costco operates another 270 warehouses, primarily in markets such as Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the UK.
Over the past month, 5 industry analysts have shared their insights on this stock, proposing an average target price of $936.0.
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