Costco provides platinum bars to its valuable metals lineup

Costco continues to chip away on the gold mine that’s the valuable metals market. The wholesaler is including Swiss-made platinum bars to its choice.

Costco on Wednesday introduced the 1-ounce platinum bars, on sale for $1,089.99 on its web site alongside its now-famed gold bars and silver cash. The bars are solely offered on-line, and can’t be delivered to Louisiana, Nevada or Puerto Rico, the corporate stated. patrons may also want a Costco membership, which prices between $65 and $130 a 12 months.

It is no shock the corporate has continued to delve into the dear metals market. Gold bars launched at Costco in August 2023, and never even two months later had been promoting out inside hours of a restock. Analysts at Wells Fargo reported in April that Costco was promoting as a lot as $200 million value of gold bars a month.

“I’ve gotten a few calls that folks have seen on-line that we have been promoting 1-ounce gold bars,” stated Richard Galanti, then-chief monetary officer of Costco, on the corporate’s earnings name in September 2023. “After we load them on the location, they’re sometimes gone inside a couple of hours, and we restrict two per member.”

The worth of gold has risen greater than 40% up to now 12 months and over 70% within the final 5 years. However the value of platinum has been a little bit extra rocky lately. The worth of platinum has risen greater than 15% over the previous 12 months, although it has dropped greater than 8% since topping $1,100 earlier in 2024.

— CNBC’s Jeff Cox contributed to this report.