Costco Wholesale Corporation operates within the Variety stores sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Costco Wholesale with three other department stores in North America: Dollar General Corporation (2019 sales of $27.75 billion of which 100% was Department stores), Target Corporation ($78.11 billion of which 26% was Beauty and household essentials), and Wal-Mart de Mexico S.A.B. de C.V. ($33.43 billion ).

Sales Analysis. During the year ended August of 2019, sales at Costco Wholesale were $152.70 billion. This is an increase of 7.9% versus 2018, when the company's sales were $141.58 billion. This was the fifth consecutive year of sales increases at Costco Wholesale (and since 2014, sales have increased a total of 36%). Sales of United States Operations saw an increase of 9.3% in 2019, from $102.29 billion to $111.75 billion.