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CoStar quarterly revenue slides 12.2% to $732.0 million

CoStar has slipped into decline. Results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Oct 27, 2026.

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CoStar has slipped into decline: revenue slid 12.2% to $732.0 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from $834.0 million a year earlier, after 18.4% year over year growth the quarter before.

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What We Know

Revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $732.0 million, versus $834.0 million in the same quarter a year earlier, down 12.2%.

Bar chart: CoStar: revenue, last eight quarters. US$ millions by fiscal quarter end, as of Oct 27, 2026. Dec 2024 709.2; Mar 2025 732.0; Jun 2025 781.0; Sep 2025 833.6; Dec 2025 900.4; Mar 2026 897.0; Jun 2026 925.0; Sep 2026 732.0. Latest quarter $732.0M, Down 12.2% vs a year earlier.
Source: SEC EDGAR (earnings release and XBRL financial data)

Quarterly revenue by fiscal quarter end, oldest first: Dec 2024: $709.2 million; Mar 2025: $732.0 million; Jun 2025: $781.0 million; Sep 2025: $833.6 million; Dec 2025: $900.4 million; Mar 2026: $897.0 million; Jun 2026: $925.0 million; Sep 2026: $732.0 million.

Octans View

Year over year revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Dec 2025 up 27.0%; Mar 2026 up 22.5%; Jun 2026 up 18.4%; Sep 2026 down 12.2%. On those figures, CoStar has slipped into decline. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.

Bear Case · Room for Disagreement

This brief covers reported revenue and diluted earnings per share only. It does not cover guidance, margins, segment results, cash flow or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast. Revenue is the total on the release line we matched; a company's own adjusted measures can differ.

Method and source. Octans Research matched the revenue line in the earnings release (Exhibit 99.1) to the year ago quarter the company reported in its own XBRL financial data; the two must agree before anything is published. The quarterly history comes from the same XBRL data. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.

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$CSGP adjusted close, last 6 months $CSGP adjusted close, last 6 months: series falling from 35.4 to 28.1 (−20.5%) from 2026-05-04 to 2026-10-29. Scale 26 to 36. 262830323436 2026-05-042026-10-29 $CSGP ADJUSTED CLOSE, LAST 6 MONTHS −20.5% 28.14
Source: Tiingo · As of 2026-10-29Indicative, not investment advice.

Sources

  1. [1]SEC EDGAR — CoStar earnings release for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1), filed Oct 27, 2026
  2. [2]SEC EDGAR — CoStar XBRL financial data (company facts)

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