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Best Buy · November 2012
BBYConsumer goods1-year horizonHard
Imagine you already own shares of this company.
Everything on this page is limited to information available on November 26, 2012.
The situation
- Date
- November 26, 2012
- You own
- Shares of Best Buy
- Period
- 1 year, until November 2013
Decide what to do with your shares.
The company at the time
Best Buy is the largest electronics store chain in the United States. Its sales have stopped growing and are slipping at stores open for more than a year, as more people buy electronics online. Many shoppers look at products in its stores and then buy them online for less, often from Amazon, a habit called showrooming. In its last full year, which ended in March 2012, it reported a loss of more than $1 billion, mainly from write-downs and restructuring costs, and last week it reported another loss for the latest quarter. The chief executive resigned in April, and the founder and largest shareholder, Richard Schulze, has offered to buy the company and take it off the stock market. A new chief executive, Hubert Joly, started in September and has just presented a turnaround plan called Renew Blue. The share price has fallen by about half over the past year.
Information available at the time
The same numbers as on company pages, as they had been reported by November 26, 2012. Sector medians aren't shown because StockLab doesn't have them as they stood back then.
Revenue, growth, profit and cash flow are for fiscal year 2012 (ended March 2012), the latest full year in an annual report filed by then; cash and debt come from the latest report (its date is on the card). Results announced after that aren't in these cards yet, even if the story above mentions them, so their numbers can differ.
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$12.48
Close on Nov 26, 2012
$4.20B
5-year trends
Annual figures, fiscal years 2009-2012.
Stock price
Useful context, but not the main focus.
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What would you do?
No virtual money and no score. After you choose, you'll see what happened and a review of the reasoning.