--- title: "Costco Wholesale Corporation Company Timeline" description: "Costco Wholesale timeline from its SEC filings: revenue by fiscal year since 2008, acquisitions, stock splits and name changes, each linked to its filing." canonical: https://www.getswoopr.com/stocks/companies/costco/company-timeline/ source: "Swoopr Investment: https://www.getswoopr.com" --- # Costco Wholesale Corporation Company Timeline ## Direct Answer Costco Wholesale's SEC filings show revenue of $72.5 billion in fiscal 2008 and $275 billion in fiscal 2025, a compound annual growth rate of 8.2%. EDGAR records two changes to its filing name, most recently in 1999. ## Key Milestones Company-history milestones are listed by year. Events from Costco Wholesale's SEC filing record are dated by the filing that reports them and link to it. | Year | Milestone | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | 1983 | The first Costco warehouse opens in Seattle. | Company history | | 1993 | Costco and Price Club merge. | Company history | | 1997 | The company adopts the Costco Wholesale name. | Company history | | 1997 | Filings change from the name PRICE/COSTCO INC to COSTCO COMPANIES INC. | [SEC EDGAR company record](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=909832) | | 1999 | Filings change from the name COSTCO COMPANIES INC to COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW. | [SEC EDGAR company record](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=909832) | | 2000 | International warehouse expansion broadens the addressable market. | Company history | | 2014 | E-commerce becomes more strategically important. | Company history | | 2017 | Kirkland Signature continues expanding across categories. | Company history | | 2020 | Pandemic demand highlights the resilience of warehouse retail. | Company history | | 2024 | Membership economics and global warehouse expansion remain central to strategy. | Company history | ## How Has Costco Wholesale's Revenue Grown? The fastest year was fiscal 2021, when revenue grew 17.5%. Revenue fell in one year: fiscal 2009 (-1.5%); the 10-K for each of those years explains what drove it. Revenue first passed $100 billion in fiscal 2013 and $250 billion in fiscal 2024. | Fiscal year | Revenue | Change | | --- | --- | --- | | FY2025 ended August 31, 2025 | $275 billion | 8.2% | | FY2024 ended September 1, 2024 | $254 billion | 5.0% | | FY2023 ended September 3, 2023 | $242 billion | 6.8% | | FY2022 ended August 28, 2022 | $227 billion | 15.8% | | FY2021 ended August 29, 2021 | $196 billion | 17.5% | | FY2020 ended August 30, 2020 | $167 billion | 9.2% | | FY2019 ended September 1, 2019 | $153 billion | 7.9% | | FY2018 ended September 2, 2018 | $142 billion | 9.7% | | FY2017 ended September 3, 2017 | $129 billion | 8.7% | | FY2016 ended August 28, 2016 | $119 billion | 2.2% | | FY2015 ended August 30, 2015 | $116 billion | 3.2% | | FY2014 ended August 31, 2014 | $113 billion | 7.1% | | FY2013 ended September 1, 2013 | $105 billion | 6.1% | | FY2012 ended September 2, 2012 | $99.1 billion | 11.5% | | FY2011 ended August 28, 2011 | $88.9 billion | 14.1% | | FY2010 ended August 29, 2010 | $77.9 billion | 9.1% | | FY2009 ended August 30, 2009 | $71.4 billion | -1.5% | | FY2008 ended August 31, 2008 | $72.5 billion | n/a | ## How Do These Events Affect Costco Wholesale's Financial History? None of Costco Wholesale's Form 8-K filings listed by EDGAR reports a completed acquisition or disposition under Item 2.01, so the revenue record reflects its existing businesses more directly than a serial acquirer's would. Deals too small to require an 8-K can still contribute. Earlier filings were made under a former name, which matters when searching EDGAR or older research; the company's CIK number (909832) stays the same across names. Each year shows the revenue from the latest 10-K that reported it, so a year a company later restated can differ from the figure it first published, and most companies moved to a new revenue tag after the 2018 change in revenue accounting. ## Where This Timeline Comes From Revenue, stock splits and former names come from Costco Wholesale's filings with the SEC, read from EDGAR's XBRL company facts and submissions data on October 5, 2026. Acquisitions and disposals are those reported as completed under Item 2.01 of a Form 8-K in the filings EDGAR lists for the company, each checked against the filing itself. Milestones marked "Company history" summarize widely reported events and are dated by year only. This page is educational and describes history; it is not a forecast or a recommendation. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How much has Costco Wholesale's revenue grown? From $72.5 billion in fiscal 2008 to $275 billion in fiscal 2025, a compound annual growth rate of 8.2%, according to the revenue Costco Wholesale reported in its Form 10-K filings. ### Where does this timeline come from? Dated events come from Costco Wholesale's SEC filings and link to them in the milestone table; the company-history milestones summarize widely reported events by year. ### Has Costco Wholesale changed its name? Yes. EDGAR shows filings under PRICE/COSTCO INC and COSTCO COMPANIES INC before the current name, COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW. ## References - [SEC EDGAR: COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW filings](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=909832) - [SEC: EDGAR application programming interfaces (XBRL company facts and submissions data)](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces) ## Related Pages - [Costco Wholesale company dossier](https://www.getswoopr.com/stocks/companies/costco/) - [Fundamental analysis guides](https://www.getswoopr.com/learn/fundamental-analysis/) ## About the author The [Swoopr Editorial Team](https://www.getswoopr.com/authors/swoopr-editorial-team/) writes Swoopr Investment's educational library on investing, financial markets, and public companies. 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