Best Buy Stock Forecast, Price & News

Best Buy's stock was trading at $65.37 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BBY stock has increased by 70.9% and is now trading at $111.75.
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23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Best Buy in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" Best Buy stock.
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538 employees have rated Best Buy CEO Thomas Greco on Glassdoor.com. Thomas Greco has an approval rating of 63% among Best Buy's employees. This puts Thomas Greco in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Best Buy is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 25th 2021.
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Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November, 23rd. The technology retailer reported $2.06 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.70 by $0.36. The technology retailer earned $11.85 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $11.02 billion. Best Buy had a return on equity of 52.17% and a net margin of 3.79%. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.13 EPS.
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Best Buy announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 24th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.55 per share on Tuesday, January 5th. This represents a $2.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.97%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 14th.
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Best Buy pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.93%. Best Buy does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Best Buy is 36.24%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Best Buy will have a dividend payout ratio of 28.57% next year. This indicates that Best Buy will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Best Buy announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program on Wednesday, February 27th 2019, which authorizes the company to buyback $3,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 18.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

23 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Best Buy's stock. Their forecasts range from $70.00 to $135.00. On average, they expect Best Buy's share price to reach $110.37 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.2%.
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Some companies that are related to Best Buy include GOME Retail (GMELY), Conn's (CONN), Yosen Group (YOSN), DBUB Group (DBUB) and hhgregg (HGGGQ).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Best Buy investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Intel (INTC), The Home Depot (HD), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Micron Technology (MU), Bank of America (BAC), The Walt Disney (DIS), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Alibaba Group (BABA).

Best Buy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BBY."

Best Buy's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.11%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.09%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.05%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%), Hexavest Inc. (0.04%) and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.02%). Company insiders that own Best Buy stock include Allison Peterson, Brian A Tilzer, Corie S Barry, Hubert Joly, Kathleen Scarlett, Keith J Nelsen, Lisa Caputo, Mathew Watson, Matthew M Bilunas, Matthew M Furman, Rajendra M Mohan, Richard M Schulze, Todd G Hartman, Victor Kathy J Higgins and Whitney L Alexander.
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BBY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hexavest Inc., Scout Investments Inc., Sowell Financial Services LLC, Transform Wealth LLC, Exchange Traded Concepts LLC, MEAG MUNICH ERGO Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH, First Citizens Bank & Trust Co., and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold Best Buy company stock in the last year include Allison Peterson, Brian A Tilzer, Corie S Barry, Hubert Joly, Kathleen Scarlett, Mathew Watson, Matthew M Bilunas, Matthew M Furman, Rajendra M Mohan, Richard M Schulze, Todd G Hartman, and Whitney L Alexander.
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BBY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, NuWave Investment Management LLC, Lavaca Capital LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Procyon Private Wealth Partners LLC, Beacon Financial Group, and IFM Investors Pty Ltd.
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Shares of BBY can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of BBY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $111.75.

Best Buy has a market capitalization of $28.94 billion and generates $43.64 billion in revenue each year. The technology retailer earns $1.54 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.07 on an earnings per share basis. Best Buy employs 125,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Best Buy is www.bestbuy.com.

Best Buy's mailing address is 7601 PENN AVE SOUTH, RICHFIELD MN, 55423. The technology retailer can be reached via phone at 612-291-1000 or via email at [email protected]