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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Retail · CIK 0000764478
$93.89
+3.03% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 20, 2026
$19.63B market value
From BEST BUY CO INC's FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 18, 2026 · read the filing
BEST BUY sells furniture and home goods. It took in $41.69B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 3 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by debt and accounting, with profitability and growth worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 2 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$38.4M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From BEST BUY CO INC's FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Profit
$927.0M → $1.07B
Earnings per share
$4.39 → $5.11
Operating income
$1.26B → $1.39B
Free cash flow
$1.39B → $1.26B
Measured against FY2025, from the 10-K filed Mar 18, 2026
Improved: +15.3%
$927.0M to $1.07BSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
BBY rose 3.03% on the latest quote. The average Consumer Discretionary company tracked here moved +2.24%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 0.8 points above its sector and 4.1 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 2% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 6% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 3 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.07B last year.
Barely. Sales were roughly flat, up 0.4%.
No — it holds more cash than debt, with $562.0M left over after paying off every borrowing. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.25 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 75 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 41% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.07B and generated $1.96B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202610-K · Mar 18, 2026Filing for FY2026 | FY202510-K · Mar 19, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Mar 15, 2024Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Mar 17, 2023Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Mar 18, 2022Filing for FY2022 | ChangeFY2026 vs FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $41.69B | $41.53B | $43.45B | $46.30B | $51.76B | +0.4% |
| Cost of revenue | $32.32B | $32.14B | $33.85B | $36.39B | $40.12B | +0.5% |
| Gross profit | $9.37B | $9.38B | $9.60B | $9.91B | $11.64B | −0.1% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 22.5% | 22.6% | 22.1% | 21.4% | 22.5% | −0.1 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $7.62B | $7.65B | $7.88B | $7.97B | $8.63B | −0.4% |
| Operating income | $1.39B | $1.26B | $1.57B | $1.79B | $3.04B | +10.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 3.3% | 3.0% | 3.6% | 3.9% | 5.9% | +0.3 pts |
| Interest expense | $47.0M | $51.0M | $52.0M | $35.0M | $25.0M | −7.8% |
| Income before tax | $1.40B | $1.29B | $1.62B | $1.79B | $3.02B | +8.4% |
| Net income | $1.07B | $927.0M | $1.24B | $1.42B | $2.45B | +15.3% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 2.6% | 2.2% | 2.9% | 3.1% | 4.7% | +0.3 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $5.11 | $4.39 | $5.76 | $6.51 | $10.79 | +16.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 96,166 shares at $70.50 ($6.8M)
Holds 232,235 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 27,952 shares at $92.41 ($2.6M)
Holds 204,283 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2027
Operating margin +1.7 pts · Operating income +67.7% · Profit +69.4% — against Q2 FY2026
Read the filingPublished results
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 51 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 19 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from BBY's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-01-31, filed Mar 18, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 8.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 18, 2026 |
| FY2025 | 7.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 19, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 7.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 15, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 7.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 17, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 18, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 19, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
7 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
1.85
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.78
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +16.6%
$4.39 to $5.11Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +10.1%
$1.26B to $1.39BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -9.6%
$1.39B to $1.26BNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +10.1%
$1.58B to $1.74BNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -1.1%
211.4M to 209.1MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2027 against Q2 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Sep 4, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +67.7%
$251.0M to $421.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +69.4%
$186.0M to $315.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +69.4%
$0.88 to $1.50Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +54.9%
$1.46B to $2.25BCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +6.6%
$2.19B to $2.34BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +1.7 pts
2.7% to 4.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +1.3 pts
2.0% to 3.2%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Q2 FY2027 against Q1 FY2027, from the 10-Q filed Sep 4, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +28.9%
$1.75B to $2.25BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +9.4%
$8.94B to $9.78BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +11.2%
$2.10B to $2.34BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +13.8%
$370.0M to $421.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +14.1%
$276.0M to $315.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +14.3%
$1.31 to $1.50Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
8 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between -0% and 4%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 30 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 30 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say strong buy, 4 say buy, 22 say hold and 2 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 7.1% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 21.4x — investors pay $21.4 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
Sold on the open market — 88,110 shares at $92.07 ($8.1M)
Holds 116,173 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 32,311 shares
Holds 136,069 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 300,000 shares
Holds 300,000 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 52,660 shares at $92.90 ($4.9M)
Holds 247,340 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 247,340 shares at $92.43 ($22.9M)
Holds 0 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 300,000 shares
Holds 9,230,936 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 18,955 shares
Holds 18,955 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 14,581 shares
Holds 33,536 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,874 shares
Holds 27,678 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 11,614 shares at $83.44 ($969.1K)
Holds 10,419,322 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 252,380 shares at $81.78 ($20.6M)
Holds 10,166,942 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 336,006 shares at $82.50 ($27.7M)
Holds 9,830,936 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 42,106 shares at $83.63 ($3.5M)
Holds 9,788,830 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 62,072 shares at $80.88 ($5.0M)
Holds 9,726,758 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 88,288 shares at $81.73 ($7.2M)
Holds 9,638,470 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 107,534 shares at $82.82 ($8.9M)
Holds 9,530,936 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 600 shares
Holds 43,916 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 116,062 shares ($10.7M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Option Exercise.
Filed notice to sell 300,000 shares ($28.0M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Founders Shares.
Filed notice to sell 900,000 shares ($74.5M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Founders Shares.
Filed notice to sell 224,705 shares ($17.6M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Founders Shares.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2027
Operating margin +1.6 pts · Operating income +68.9% · Free cash flow turned positive — against Q1 FY2026
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2026
Profit +15.3% · Earnings per share +16.6% · Operating income +10.1% — against FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Operating margin −1.7 pts · Operating income -43.4% · Profit -48.7% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin −1.5 pts · Operating income -34.5% · Profit -36.1% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingThe first 40 of 51. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-03-18. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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