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COST vs WMT

A side-by-side look at COST and WMT, updated throughout the trading session.

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Performance, normalized

Z-scored closes: both paths on one scale, price levels aside.

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COST vs WMT: how they differ

Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) and Walmart Inc. (WMT) are both in the Consumer Defensive sector, in the same Discount Stores industry. Both trade on NASDAQ.

COST trades about 2.2 million shares a day on average, against 23.6 million for WMT. COST has the higher beta (0.87 against 0.58 for WMT), meaning it has historically moved more with the broad market. Over the trailing twelve months, COST paid $5.54 per share in dividends and WMT paid $0.98 per share.

Figures as of October 26, 2026.

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The chart Z-score-normalizes each closing series, computing (close − mean) ÷ standard deviation over the window, so both paths share one scale regardless of price level, and correlation is computed on daily returns. Figures update throughout the trading session. Nothing on this page is financial advice.