Is Costco Owned By Target? - Growing Savings

Last Updated on 10/07/2019 by GS Staff

Q: Does Target own Costco?

A: No, Costco and Target are two separate publicly traded companies. Costco trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol COST. Target trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TGT. If Target owned all or a significant portion of Costco, Costco would no longer trade as its own company. Rather, Target would acquire the shares of Costco and they would would continue to trade under the parent company TGT.

Costco is actually a much bigger company in terms of market capitalization compared to Target. As of the date of this article, Costco’s market capitalization was approximately $126.54 billion compared to Target’s $54.97 billion market capitalization. Without completing an unnecessary financial analysis of the two companies for the sake of this article, we would speculate that if ever one company were to own the other, Costco would takeover Target. Howerever, keep in mind we are not suggesting that this will ever happen.

Target Subsidiaries

Target owns the following subsidiaries. They may own additional subsidiaries, but they were not significant enough to be disclosed:

Target Brands
Target Capital Corporation
Target Enterprise, Inc.
Target General Merchandise
Shipt

Target Brands

The company also owns the following brands in the table below. Some brands that frequent Target shoppers are likely familiar with are Archer Farmers and Market Pantry.

A New Day	Joy Lab	Smarty
Archer Farms	Knox Rose	Smith & Hawken
Art Class	Kona Sol	Sonia Kashuk
Ava & Viv	Made By Design	Spritz
Boots & Barkley	Market Pantry	Sutton & Dodge
Bullseye's Playground	Opalhouse	Threshold
Cat & Jack	Pillowfort	up & up
Embark	Prologue	Who What Wear
Gilligan & O'Malley	Project 62	Wild Fable
Goodfellow & Co	Room Essentials	Wine Cube
heyday	Shade & Shore	Wondershop
Hyde & Eek! Boutique	Simply Balanced	Xhilaration