Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2015 Operating Results
(firmenpresse) - ISSAQUAH, WA -- (Marketwired) -- 12/10/14 -- Costco Wholesale Corporation ("Costco" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: COST) announced today its operating results for the first quarter (twelve weeks) of fiscal 2015, ended November 23, 2014.
Net sales for the quarter increased seven percent, to $26.28 billion from $24.47 billion during the first quarter last year. Comparable sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2015 were as follows:
Comparable sales for the twelve-week period, excluding negative impacts from gasoline price deflation and foreign exchange, were as follows:
Net income for the quarter was $496 million, or $1.12 per diluted share, compared to $425 million, or $0.96 per diluted share, last year.
Costco currently operates 671 warehouses, including 474 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 88 in Canada, 34 in Mexico, 26 in the United Kingdom, 20 in Japan, 11 in Korea, 10 in Taiwan, seven in Australia and one in Spain. Costco also operates electronic commerce web sites in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico.
A conference call to discuss these fiscal 2015 first quarter operating results is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. (PT) today, December 10, 2014, and is available via a webcast on (click on Investor Relations and "Play webcast").
Certain statements contained in this document constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For these purposes, forward-looking statements are statements that address activities, events, conditions or developments that the Company expects or anticipates may occur in the future. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results or performance to differ materially from those indicated by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, domestic and international economic conditions, including exchange rates, the effects of competition and regulation, uncertainties in the financial markets, consumer and small business spending patterns and debt levels, breaches of security or privacy of member or business information, conditions affecting the acquisition, development, ownership or use of real estate, amounts expected to be spent on expansion plans, actions of vendors, rising costs associated with employees (including health care costs), energy, and certain commodities, geopolitical conditions and other risks identified from time to time in the Company''s public statements and reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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