Costco shares fell in afterhours trading after the company saw total revenue fall slightly shy of Wall Street estimates while e-commerce sales tumbled 9.6%.

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Costco Shares Fall as E-Commerce Sales Tumble, Total Revenue Slightly Misses

All right. We do have an earnings alert. Let's take a look at shares of Costco in the after hours that stopped tumbling. The stock is down 2% after gaining about one and a half% $3.30. The estimate was $3.21 revenue coming in. Just a hair light. I mean really kind of in line with expectations, but technically a hair light at 55.27 billion. The expectation was 55 a half billion. But we did get some interesting data overall, comparable sales rose, but it was the e commerce comparable sales that actually disappointed. So in the quarter, e commerce sales fell 9.6% Even as total, comparable sales rose 6.8%. And the company actually giving us some data for the month of February as well, which of course just wrapped up earlier this week on Tuesday. So eat commerce sales in February down 11.2%. That's actually a drop off from what we had seen in the latest quarter. But overall company same store sales up about 5%. So people shopping in stores but not online