Best Buy Co. -- The Essentials

By Ken Smith • Tuesday, January 10 10:46 • Permanent Link

Best Buy Co. logged a 0.4% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $82.36 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -0.3%. BBY's trading volume is 239,502 compared to the stock's average volume of 3,037,817.

Best Buy Co. trades 5.41% away from its average analyst target price of $78.13 per share. The 20 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $56 to $110, and on average have given Best Buy Co. a rating of hold.

If you are considering an investment in BBY, you'll want to know the following:

Best Buy Co.'s current price is 56.3% above its Graham number of $52.68, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 6.84, Best Buy Co. has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 12.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
BBY has a forward P/E ratio of 10.4 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $7.95 per share
The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 1.32 — a number near or below 1 signifying that Best Buy Co. is fairly valued compared to its estimated growth potential
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 4.6 compared to its sector average of 3.11
Best Buy Co., Inc. retails technology products in the United States and Canada.
Based in Richfield, the company has 57,750 full time employees and a market cap of $19,812,603,904. Best Buy Co. currently returns an annual dividend yield of 2.9%.

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