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

BNED POWR Grades

• BNED scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 84.1% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for BNED is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• BNED's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 10.93% 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 94.31% of US listed stocks.
• BNED's price/sales ratio is 0.13; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 1.4% of US stocks.
• Barnes & Noble Education Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -23.34%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 16.23% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Barnes & Noble Education Inc are IMBI, BCC, HY, TCS, and NRC.
• 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

• BNED's price/earnings ratio is -3.2; this is 116.49% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 74 months, BNED's price/earnings ratio has gone down 35.
• Over the past 74 months, BNED's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BNED.

BNED Growth Metrics

The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -71.15%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -48.89%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -81.91%.

BNED's revenue has moved down $65,330,000 over the prior 15 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
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
2021-03-31	1,433.89	32.882	-131.787
2020-12-31	1,467.998	-60.869	-127.759
2020-09-30	1,558.677	-89.409	-81.163

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.