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Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)

Would this rule have fired?

SEC EDGAR XBRL companyfacts

Debt to Equity stays at or below 0.00

Coverage

Debt to Equity can be measured in 26 of the 30 filed fiscal years we test against, FY1997 to FY2026. The other 4 carry no value and count in neither total: they are shown blank, never as zero.

Future filings can only add years, never fill in the old blank ones.

This page prints only figures that resolve to a document on sec.gov. 31 further fiscal years are held for this company from a commercial data feed, and are left out here rather than shown without a filing you can open.

Result

This rule would have fired 8 times: FY2019, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022, FY2023, FY2024, FY2025, FY2026.

Debt to Equity stays at or below 0.00, tested year by year against filed accounts
FYValueStatusFiledDocument
2016n/anot measurable2016-10-1210-K on sec.gov
2017n/anot measurable2017-10-1810-K on sec.gov
2018n/anot measurable2018-10-2610-K on sec.gov
20190.48Fired2019-10-1110-K on sec.gov
20200.61Fired2020-10-0710-K on sec.gov
20210.64Fired2021-10-0610-K on sec.gov
20220.44Fired2022-10-0510-K on sec.gov
20230.35Fired2023-10-1110-K on sec.gov
20240.42Fired2024-10-0910-K on sec.gov
20250.34Fired2025-10-0810-K on sec.gov
20260.28Fired2026-10-0710-K on sec.gov
11 years tested8 fired 0 held 3 not measurable

Filed figures from SEC EDGAR. This is a computation on public filings, not a recommendation, and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results.

Filed figures from SEC EDGAR. This is a computation on public filings, not a recommendation, and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results. See the risk disclaimer.

What this is not

It is not a backtest. It does not model what a portfolio would have returned, it compounds nothing, and it does not know what the share price did. It answers one question: on the accounts this company filed, in which years was that condition false? Every entry above is a fiscal year, a filed figure and the filing it came from.

Doing this once is arithmetic on public documents. Doing it every night, against the newest filed accounts, and writing to you the day a condition you wrote down stops being true, is the subscription. The check runs every night at 23:30 UTC. A filing is picked up the night after it is published.

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