NYSE:BNED - Barnes & Noble Education Stock Price, News & Analysis

Barnes & Noble Education trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BNED."

Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE:BNED) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, June, 25th. The specialty retailer reported ($0.97) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.03) by $0.94. The specialty retailer earned $334.40 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $340.58 million. Barnes & Noble Education had a positive return on equity of 5.36% and a negative net margin of 1.20%. The business's revenue was down 6.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.36 earnings per share. View Barnes & Noble Education's Earnings History.

Barnes & Noble Education is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 27th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Barnes & Noble Education.

Barnes & Noble Education will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, August 27th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

2 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Barnes & Noble Education's shares. Their forecasts range from $4.00 to $7.00. On average, they expect Barnes & Noble Education's share price to reach $5.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 71.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Barnes & Noble Education.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Barnes & Noble Education in the last year. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Barnes & Noble Education.

Media coverage about BNED stock has trended negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Barnes & Noble Education earned a news impact score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the specialty retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Barnes & Noble Education.

Barnes & Noble Education saw a decline in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,159,200 shares, a decline of 8.0% from the June 30th total of 3,433,600 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 522,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.0 days. Approximately 8.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Barnes & Noble Education's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Barnes & Noble Education include Dicks Sporting Goods (DKS), Office Depot (ODP), Barnes & Noble (BKS), Hibbett Sports (HIBB), Sportsman's Warehouse (SPWH) and Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Barnes & Noble Education investors own include Newell Brands (NWL), Barnes & Noble (BKS), FireEye (FEYE), Starbucks (SBUX), Ford Motor (F), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Transocean (RIG), Adobe (ADBE), Cypress Semiconductor (CY) and Extreme Networks (EXTR).

Barnes & Noble Education's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (12.67%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (6.34%), Vanguard Group Inc. (3.84%), Towerview LLC (2.90%), Water Island Capital LLC (2.57%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (2.47%). Company insiders that own Barnes & Noble Education stock include Abrams Capital Management, LP, John R Ryan and Michael Huseby. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Barnes & Noble Education.

BNED stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Vanguard Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC and Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Barnes & Noble Education.

BNED stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Water Island Capital LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Invesco Ltd., Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan, Renaissance Technologies LLC, GSA Capital Partners LLP and JPMorgan Chase & Co.. Company insiders that have bought Barnes & Noble Education stock in the last two years include John R Ryan and Michael Huseby. View Insider Buying and Selling for Barnes & Noble Education.

Shares of BNED can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BNED stock can currently be purchased for approximately $3.20.

Barnes & Noble Education has a market capitalization of $152.19 million and generates $2.03 billion in revenue each year. Barnes & Noble Education employs 6,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Barnes & Noble Education.

The official website for Barnes & Noble Education is http://www.bned.com/.

Barnes & Noble Education's mailing address is 120 MOUNTAIN VIEW BOULEVARD, BASKING RIDGE NJ, 07920. The specialty retailer can be reached via phone at 908-991-2665 or via email at [email protected]