BEST BUY CO., INC.
At today's price, BEST BUY CO., INC. (BBY) is priced for +7.8% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Best Buy is a profitable consumer-electronics retailer with an unusually clean balance sheet for its category: it holds a net cash position, earns a return on equity near 37%, and generates roughly $1.6 billion of free cash flow. • The biggest structural risk is the business it is in: electronics retail faces relentless price competition and online pressure, and the filing concedes ⟦"the retail sector is highly competitive. Price is of great importance to most customers."⟧ • What moves the sto
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830 institutional managers reported holding BBY in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 90% of the company; the top 10 hold 48%. 78 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 18.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 9% of shares outstanding (4.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
BBY has cut its share count 15.9% over the past five years, spending $4.70B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 8 years straight; the current rate is $3.80 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $2.41B in dividends and $1.03B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at BBY over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $984k. 19 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
BBY's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-03 | +7.5% | +9.0% |
| 2023-09-02 | +2.5% | -10.7% |
| 2023-12-02 | -0.1% | +3.1% |
| 2024-03-16 | +0.5% | -6.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
BBY's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-22 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-06-17 (items 5.07); 2026-05-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-22 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-03-03 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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