The first Costco Wholesale trade was made in Q3 2002.
Since then Bill Gates bought shares ten more times and sold shares on four occasions. The investor sold all their shares in Q4 2012 and doesn't own any shares in Costco Wholesale anymore.
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Sold -6.13M shares
Q4 2012
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$98.27
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$94.47
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$105.95
Increased shares by 8.9% (+500k shares)
Q4 2008
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$53.46
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$44.99
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$64.69
Increased shares by 9.8% (+500k shares)
Q3 2008
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$67.44
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$60.35
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$74.66
Increased shares by 1333.5% (+4.77M shares)
Q1 2008
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$64.58
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$60.04
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$69.86
Sold 92.7% shares (-4.52M shares)
Q4 2007
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$67.01
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$61.62
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$71.25
Increased shares by 7.3% (+333k shares)
Q4 2006
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$52.87
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$52.87
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$52.87
Increased shares by 8.0% (+335k shares)
Q4 2005
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Increased shares by 3.2% (+130k shares)
Q3 2005
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Increased shares by 6.0% (+230k shares)
Q2 2005
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Increased shares by 1965.7% (+3.66M shares)
Q1 2005