Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST)

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The RMPIA's 3.8% jump even beat the Nasdaq Composite Index's 3.7% October climb.

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The wholesale club's technical indicators show an extended period of accumulation of its shares.

It is not going to run the company to please Wall Street. It is going to run the company to please consumers and if the consumer is happy, Costco is happy.

RMPIA is up 20.9% in the first nine months of 2019.

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I could list dozens of opportunities to buy high-quality stocks that are expensive. In each case it's easy to say what the Bernstein analyst said about Costco.

Cramer and Bernstein's Fletcher differ on the retailing club. What say the charts?

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Gains in Amgen, CVS, and others helped offset declines in other stocks, as the RMPIA rose over the last two months to 0.6%, handily beating all the major domestic stock market averages.

The charts of the big wholesale club retailer indicate its shares could run significantly higher even after nearly doubling over the last three years.