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Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (BNED)

Consumer Cyclical · Specialty Retail · Small-cap · updated October 16, 2026

NOT A BUY TODAY
What this means. Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. is an average business by our measures, its shares look fairly priced, and its share price has been doing well.
Value66
Quality45
Price trend81
Overall62
287 of 2764rank among the US stocks we score (our core model buys the top 15)
90%of US stocks we score rank below it

Scores are 0 to 100 against every US stock we track; 50 is average. Recomputed after every US market close.

The business in numbers

Fiscal year to May 2026, from the company's annual filing with the SEC.

Salesyearly sales$1.6B
Sales growthchange from the year before+6.9%
Gross marginshare of sales left after the direct cost of what it sells23.4%
Operating marginshare of sales left after running the business2.3%
Net marginshare of sales kept as profit1.1%
Free-cash-flow marginspare cash generated per $100 of sales2.2%
Return on invested capitalprofit made on each $100 put into the business6.7%
Return on equityprofit vs. shareholders' accounting value5.8%
Debt / equitydebt vs. shareholders' accounting value0.48
Change in share countnegative = the company is buying back its shares+31.6%

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