Costco Sales Topped $250 Billion in Fiscal 2024. But Less Than 2% of Those Sales Are Key to Understanding the Entire Business.

Costco Wholesale (COST 1.07%) operates around 900 warehouse-style retail stores around the world. Its fiscal 2024 ended on Sept. 1. And during the fiscal year, it generated a whopping $254 billion in total revenue.This makes Costco one of the largest businesses on the entire planet. Just to put its revenue number into perspective, the company generated as much revenue as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Netflix, and The Coca-Cola Company combined. Really.Costco stocks and sells tons of products. In its ...