Barnes & Noble Education, Inc (BNED): Price and Financial Metrics

BNED POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where BNED ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 75.21% of US stocks.
• BNED's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• BNED's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 8.53% of US stocks).

BNED Stock Summary

• BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION INC's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 95.31% of US listed stocks.
• BNED's price/sales ratio is 0.08; that's higher than the P/S ratio of just 1.35% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for BNED comes in at -55.58% -- higher than that of merely 9.55% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION INC are BIG, CCRN, ARW, SGRP, and CTRN.
• BNED's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION INC's official web site, go to www.bned.com.

BNED Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, BNED's EV/EBIT ratio is 168.15% lower, now standing at -9.2.
• BNED's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.2 over the prior 91 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BNED.

BNED Growth Metrics

The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -98.29%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 29.46%.
• The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at -1.24%.

BNED's revenue has moved down $329,777,000 over the prior 67 months.

The table below shows BNED's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	1,544.585	-12.706	-77.602
2022-06-30	1,554.464	-9.476	-77.218
2022-03-31	1,531.4	2.06	-68.857
2021-12-31	1,493.347	-0.803	-102.98
2021-09-30	1,502.162	-31.119	-114.468
2021-06-30	1,470.67	70.259	-129.481

BNED's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• BNED has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 19.04% of graded US stocks.
• BNED's asset turnover comes in at 1.207 -- ranking 114th of 165 Retail stocks.
• MUSA, SGU, and CASY are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with BNED.

The table below shows BNED's key quality metrics over time.