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Net Income per Common and Common Equivalent Share Net Income per Common and Common Equivalent Share (Tables)

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Sep. 01, 2019

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted

The following table shows the amounts used in computing net income per share and the weighted average number of shares of basic and of potentially dilutive common shares outstanding (shares in 000’s):

	2019				2018				2017
Net income attributable to Costco	$	3,659			$	3,134			$	2,679
Weighted average basic shares	439,755				438,515				438,437
RSUs and other	3,168				3,319				2,500
Weighted average diluted shares	442,923				441,834				440,937

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Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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