{"id":29222,"date":"2012-05-25T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T19:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=29222"},"modified":"2012-05-25T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T19:52:33","slug":"costco-beats-estimates-by-a-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/05\/25\/costco-beats-estimates-by-a-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco Beats Estimates By A Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v95e38cea6892404db0500d5631a4b91fe2ef8f4d&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v95e38cea6892404db0500d5631a4b91fe2ef8f4d&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Discount retailer Costco (NASDAQ:COST) seeing positive improvement for the third quarter. The company reported fiscal Q3 EPS of $0.88, topping estimates by a penny. That&#8217;s an increase of 19% from the same period last year.Revenues in the quarter rose 8.2% year-over-year to $22.3 billion, beating estimates of $22.21 billion. The company reported Q3 core comp sales rose 5%, vs. estimates of a 5.7% rise. Prior to today&#8217;s results, Costco met or beat EPS estimates 6 out of the last 8 quarters, and met or beat revenue estimates in 7 of last 8 quarters.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/05\/25\/1_01ll4dug_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/05\/25\/1_01ll4dug_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount retailer Costco (NASDAQ:COST) seeing positive improvement for the third quarter. The company reported fiscal Q3 EPS of $0.88, topping estimates by a penny. That&#8217;s an increase of 19% from the same period last year.Revenues in the quarter rose 8.2% year-over-year to $22.3 billion, beating estimates of $22.21 billion. The company reported Q3 core comp &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/05\/25\/costco-beats-estimates-by-a-penny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Costco Beats Estimates By A Penny&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}