CoStar Group Inc CSGP
Stock research in plain language · As of Oct 04, 2026 · updated once a week, after the trading week closes
What the company does
CoStar Group Inc is a large-cap company in the Real Estate sector (Real Estate Services), with a market value of $11.1B, based in the USA.
It employs about 8,441 people and has been listed since Jun 29, 1998.
CoStar Group, Inc. provides information, analytics, and online marketplace services to real estate and related business communities in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. It offers CoStar Property that provides inventory of office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality, and student housing, and land properties; CoStar Leasing, a data on lease transactions and tools to manage user-entered lease data; CoStar Sales, a database of commercial real estate sales transactions; CoStar Owners provides detailed portfolio information; CoStar Markets to view and report on market and submarket trends; and CoStar Tenant that provides tenant information.
Cheap or expensive? no comparison basis
Price-to-earnings (p/e): 152.1. We have no good comparison group for this stock, so the number stands alone.
Revenue is growing 18% versus the same quarter last year.
On analysts' next-year forecasts the multiple drops to 18.3 — they expect higher earnings.
The average analyst price target is 37.30, 36% above the current price (their view, not ours).
The stock sits at 3% of its one-year range (0% = the low, 100% = the high).
The risks
- • The stock is 68% below its one-year high.
Strengths
- ✅ Profitable — 6 of every 100 dollars of revenue stays as profit.
- ✅ Generates free cash flow — profit becomes cash in the bank.
- ✅ Buys back its shares (5% fewer shares in a year).
- ✅ More cash than debt.
- ✅ Most analysts rate it buy (12 vs 1).
- ✅ Revenue is growing 18% a year.
What changed this week
Over the past week the stock fell 2.5% (for comparison: S&P 500 -0.2%, sector ETF XLRE -1.8%).
This week's news
- CoStar Group to Report Financial Results for Third Quarter on October 27, 2026 finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-01
- Is CoStar Group (CSGP) Undervalued As Its Index Exit Puts Valuation In Focus? finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-30
- Apartments.com Releases Multifamily Rent Growth Report for September 2026 finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-30
- Every Major Commercial Real Estate Brokerage in Canada Subscribes to CoStar finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-30
- Oklahoma City, Hartford and Cleveland Among Top Markets in CoStar’s Bulk Logistics Performance Ranking finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-29
- 3 Out-of-Favor Stocks with Warning Signs finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-29
A description of facts from the filings and the market — not investment advice or a recommendation. "Cheap" and "expensive" are always relative to the comparison group.