Costco (COST): FY25 Q4 earnings call, Sep 25, 2025

Thu, Sep 25Earnings callSpeaker-labelled transcriptCostco

On its Sep 25, 2025 earnings call (FY25 Q4), Costco said 14 of the 16 words Kalshi listed; Parrot’s count agreed with all 16 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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16 words · 14 settled yes · our count agreed on 16 of 16

backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.

Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
Membership Yes4555✓95%transcripts from the transcript model–
Growth Yes3240✓96%transcripts from the transcript model–
Inflation Yes1720✓94%transcripts from the transcript model–
Tariff Yes1719✓85%transcripts from the transcript model–
Margin Yes1619✓95%transcripts from the transcript model–
Renewal Yes1518✓92%transcripts from the transcript model–
Kirkland Yes1011✓91%transcripts from the transcript model–
Expansion Yes55✓59%transcripts from the transcript model–
Hot Dog Yes44✓45%transcripts from the transcript model–
Inventory Yes33✓89%transcripts from the transcript model–
Labor Yes33✓47%transcripts from the transcript model–
Consumer Yes22✓81%transcripts from the transcript model–
Revenue Yes24✓45%transcripts from the transcript model–
Spending Yes11✓70%transcripts from the transcript model–
Dividend No00✓60%transcripts from the transcript model–
Valuation No00✓16%transcripts from the transcript model–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 20, 2026 15:46 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Speaker-labelled transcript · Source and credits · Used to count words; quotes of at most 25 words.

6 matches for “Gold”; 5 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Ron Vachriscompanyprepared

…these new executive benefits, we've seen a meaningful increase in upgrades from Gold Star members to Executive Membership. Another way we are improving the member…

Gary Millerchipcompanyprepared

…driven by continued growth in our membership base and increased upgrades from Gold Star to Executive Membership. At Q4 end, we had 38.7 million paid…

Gary Millerchipcompanyprepared

…remain very choice in their spending on discretionary items. In the quarter, gold and jewelry, gift cards, majors, toys, and men's apparel were all up…

Gary Millerchipcompanyprepared

…digital. E-commerce site traffic was up 27%, and sales were led by gold and jewelry, housewares, apparel, tires, sporting goods, majors, small electrics, lawn and…

Gary Millerchipcompanyprepared

…credit card status. Executive members are shown information about executive benefits, while Gold Star members are encouraged to upgrade their membership. And nonmembers are shown…

Where the listed words were said

Gary Millerchipcompany“Membership” · prepared

…would have been up 2.6% worldwide. Moving down the income statement to membership fee income. We reported membership fee income of $1.72 billion, an increase…

Gary Millerchipcompany“Growth” · prepared

…Groupon campaign in December 2023 entering the calculation. Overall, we view the growth in online sign-ups as a net positive. As they are helping to…

Gary Millerchipcompany“Inflation” · prepared

…essentially in line with the estimate we provided last quarter as overall inflation remained consistent with Q3. On to SG&A. Our reported SG&A rate in…

Ron Vachriscompany“Tariff” · prepared

…more high-quality value to our members while offsetting potentially inflationary impacts from tariffs. As mentioned last quarter, we are continuing to look at opportunities to…

Gary Millerchipcompany“Margin” · prepared

…for this cohort of new members in the future. Turning to gross margin. Our reported rate in the fourth quarter was higher year over year…

Gary Millerchipcompany“Renewal” · prepared

…and 145.2 million cardholders, up 6.1% year over year. In terms of renewal rates at Q4 end, our US and Canada renewal rate was 92.3%,…

Gary Millerchipcompany“Kirkland” · prepared

…high single-digit comps. With cola and candy showing the strongest results. New Kirkland Signature offerings allow us to deliver greater value to members and our…

Ron Vachriscompany“Expansion” · prepared

…of which five are relocations. We continue to see significant opportunities for expansion both domestically and internationally across the markets where we currently operate. Gary…

Ron Vachriscompany“Hot Dog” · prepared

…recently celebrated a few milestones including the fortieth anniversary of our $1.50 hot dog and soda combo. Fittingly, we've just completed the rollout of Coca-Cola,…

Gary Millerchipcompany“Inventory” · prepared

…the quarter, which is calculated by comparing the net landed cost of inventory at the beginning of the fiscal year to the net landed cost…

Gary Millerchipcompany“Labor” · prepared

…margins in all categories. While fresh further benefited from lower spoilage and labor efficiencies. Ancillary and other businesses' gross margin was lower by 11 basis…

Ron Vachriscompany“Consumer” · qa

…being delivered as well too, which is a big driver from the consumer out there is that they want the goods that we have at…

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