The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Costco’s current financial year sales and EPS suggests growth of 13.3% and 17.4%, respectively, from the year-ago period’s corresponding readings. However, the company is not immune to rising cost inflation. Cost Hurdles To Stay During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022, The TJX Companies’ consolidated pretax profit margin came in at 9%, down 1.9 percentage points from fourth-quarter fiscal 2020 levels.