Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE:BBY) saw a downside of -5.90% to close Tuesday at $74.23 after subtracting -$4.65 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,073,880 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $79.56 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 1,867,340 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 2,084,236.
BBY’s 1-month performance is -12.45% or -$8.53 on its low of $74.03 reached on 08/22/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $60.78 and high of $93.32, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/02/23. YTD, BBY has lost -7.46% or -$5.98 and has reached a new high 10 times. However, the current price is down -20.46% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
BBY stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Jul 25.SCHULZE RICHARD M (Chairman Emeritus) most recently sold 100,000 shares at $85.24 per share on Jul 25. This transaction cost the insider $8,524,334. SEVP, HR, Corp Affair & Canada, Scarlett Kathleen, sold 34,191 shares at a price of $81.30 on Jul 05. Then, on Jun 27, Chairman Emeritus SCHULZE RICHARD M sold 250,000 shares at a price of $82.90 per share. This transaction amounted to $20,725,355.
Valuation Metrics
BBY stock has a beta of 1.54. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.36 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 5.82, with the price to cash flow ratio at 8.18.
Best Buy Co. Inc.’s quick ratio for the period ended April 29 was 0.30, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.00. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending April 29 was 0.41, while the total debt to equity was 0.42.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 21.50%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $9.91 billion against revenue of $46.3 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending April 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -39.75% to $244.0 million, while revenue of $1.53 billion was -527.05% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected BBY to announce $1.11 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $1.15, representing a 3.60% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $548.0 million. BBY stock balance sheet for the quarter ending April 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 11.89 billion, with total debt at $3.92 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $218.21 million.
Let’s look briefly at Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 August was 21.80% to suggest the stock is trending oversold, with historical volatility in this time period at 33.16%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $77.57, reflecting a -5.42% or -$4.25 change from its current price. BBY is currently trading -12.62% above its 20-day SMA, -0.84% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -1.34% and SMA200 by+12.45%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 19.30% and 17.76% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 1.91. The RSI (14) points at 28.73%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 2.68% with the period’s ATR at 1.81. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -1.12 and -1.67 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), Telsey Advisory Group downgraded it to a Market perform rating. They previously had an Outperform rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for BBY stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Hold. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate BBY as a “sell,”, while 22 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 4 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is BBY’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $62.00 and a high of $110.00, with their median price target at $77.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY) stock is $80.10.
