The company identifies a broad set of powerful competitors, including global supercenters, online retailers, and other warehouse clubs. This intense competitive pressure makes Costco receptive to solutions that improve operational efficiency, supply chain resilience, pricing intelligence, and member loyalty to defend its market share.
Filing excerpt
We compete on a worldwide basis with global, national, and regional wholesalers and retailers, including supermarkets, supercenters, online retailers, gasoline stations, hard discounters, department and specialty stores, and operators selling a single category or narrow range of merchandise.
What this signalsFilings often name leadership changes, deals and spending plans.
Competitors
Regions named
sec-10kcompetitorNamedGet every 10-K signal for Costco and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.
Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Costco this week?”
The Signal API returns 10-K signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.
Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.
This page shows a preview. The full sec-10k record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.
Company
linkedin_urlValue in the APIindustriesValue in the APIemployee_count_lowValue in the APIemployee_count_highValue in the APIrevenueValue in the APIdescriptionValue in the APISignal
signal_nameValue in the APIassociationValue in the APIGET /v1/signals/c141c6d4-2017-4b3f-afbd-09aa85e40a51 returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for costco.com.
{
"signal_id": "c141c6d4-2017-4b3f-afbd-09aa85e40a51",
"signal_type": "sec-10k",
"signal_subtype": "competitorNamed",
"detected_at": "2026-10-13T07:04:59.824+00:00",
"company": {
"name": "Costco",
"domain": "costco.com"
},
"data": {
"detail": "The company identifies a broad set of powerful competitors, including global supercenters, online retailers, and other warehouse clubs. This intense competitive pressure makes Costco receptive to solutions that improve operational efficiency, supply chain resilience, pricing intelligence, and member loyalty to defend its market share.",
"summary": "Costco explicitly names Walmart, Amazon, Target, and Kroger as key competitors",
"excerpts": "We compete on a worldwide basis with global, national, and regional wholesalers and retailers, including supermarkets, supercenters, online retailers, gasoline stations, hard discounters, department and specialty stores, and operators selling a single category or narrow range of merchandise.",
"relevance": 0.9,
"sentiment": "negative",
"confidence": "high",
"source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909832/000090983226000093/cost-20260830.htm",
"filing_date": "2026-10-06",
"filing_year": 2026,
"fiscal_year_end": "08/30",
"sales_relevance": "Competitive intelligence",
"signal_category": "market",
"regions_mentioned": [
"U.S."
],
"competitors_mentioned": [
"Walmart",
"Target",
"Kroger",
"Amazon",
"Sam’s Club",
"BJ’s Wholesale Club"
]
}
}
curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/c141c6d4-2017-4b3f-afbd-09aa85e40a51 \
-H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
-H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"domain":"costco.com","limit":20}'Long text fields are shortened on this page.
Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.