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Barnes & Noble Education, Inc (BNED) Company Bio

Barnes & Noble Education is a contract operator of bookstores on college and university campuses in the United States. The Company creates and operates campus stores under multi-year management service agreements. The company was established in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

BNED Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

We started the process of determining a valid price forecast for Barnes & Noble Education Inc with a discounted cash flow analysis -- the results of which can be found in the table below. To summarize, we found that Barnes & Noble Education Inc ranked in the 0st percentile in terms of potential gain offered. We should note, though, that the most conservative analysis suggests this stock will yield negative results -- and thus may be a potential short opportunity. The most interesting components of our discounted cash flow analysis for Barnes & Noble Education Inc ended up being:

• The company's balance sheet shows it gets 39% of its capital from equity, and 61% of its capital from debt. Its equity weight surpasses that of just 20.42% of free cash flow generating stocks in the Consumer Cyclical sector.
• Barnes & Noble Education Inc's interest coverage rate -- a measure of gross earnings relative to interest payments -- comes in at -5.29. This coverage rate is greater than that of merely 7.99% of stocks we're observing for the purpose of forecasting via discounted cash flows.

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