$39.59

-0.06 (-0.15%)

7/3/2008 1:02 PM

Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY)

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The Company is a specialty retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products, entertainment software, appliances and related services.

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Minneapolis (11), Minnesota (21), Large Cap (467), Six Sigma® (37), Consumer Electronics (6), S&P 500 (482), Stocks for Kids (10), Retail (25), Electronics Stores (9), Business Week 50 (50)
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Best Buy Co., Inc. At A Glance

Current Price:	$39.59
Last Trade Time:	7/3/2008 1:02 PM
Open:	$0.00
Previous Close:	$39.65
Daily Range:	$39.14 - $40.12
52-Week Range:	$38.68 - $53.90
Volume:	3,678,791
Market Cap:	$16.33B
P/E Ratio:	12.24
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Circuit City shares fall as Blockbuster yanks bid
7/2/2008 6:55:00 PM - AP
Blockbuster withdraws plan to acquire Circuit City
7/1/2008 9:34:00 PM - AP
Best Buy completes Carphone Warehouse investment
6/30/2008 11:56:00 AM - AP
Spotlight: Television prices
6/27/2008 7:03:00 AM - AP

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9 Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY)

Avatar TheGarcipian (99.75) Submitted: 11/19/07 4:26 AM

After reading Rick Aristotle Munarriz's article here:
http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2007/11/12/3-stock...
I have to agree with him: Best Buy stands to do well with the conversion of all TVs to digital format by Feb. 18th, 2009. Looking at the financial numbers on Y...More

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2 Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY)

Avatar worfratt (76.32) Submitted: 6/06/08 9:41 AM

Reported low sales of flat panel TVs and increased competiton from Walmart will result in this stock's underperformance.

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Recs 0 (BBY) tp1985 (31.12) Submitted: 7/03/08 2:19 AM : Start Price: $39.60 BBY Score: -0.60 As discretionary income continues to fall, so will electronics sales. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (BBY) SmallPimpin (86.99) Submitted: 7/02/08 12:44 AM : Start Price: $40.15 BBY Score: 0.64 Mmm...electronics... Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 1 (BBY) TMFRedwood (45.65) Submitted: 6/30/08 12:16 PM : Start Price: $40.49 BBY Score: -0.26 Best Buy is a well-known electronics retailer trading at a huge discount to its worth due to worries about the economy and consumer spending. Same store sales growth is estimated to be only 1-3% this year. But this is irrelevant to the future of the business. Of course the company will have some bad times, but they have been infrequent and short in duration. Since 1992, Best Buy has only had four years of 2% growth or less in SS sales. Same store sales bounced back each time shortly after that. To see how crazy the valuation is, the average trailing P/E for any year since 1992 has never dropped below 16x. At $40 per share, the trailing P/E is 12x. Growth has slowed for Best Buy since the go-go days of the past decade, but growth has not stopped, which is essentially what the market is telling us with such a scornfully low multiple. On a discounted cash flow basis the market is predicting Best Buy will grow at 3% in perpetuity, which is pretty crazy given it plans to grow revenues by 15% annually over the next five years. This is your chance to own a dominant retailer at a bargain basement price. $40 per share drastically undervalues this business. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (BBY) lovemeto (42.23) Submitted: 6/27/08 11:50 AM : Start Price: $39.81 BBY Score: -0.81 do people really needs the TOYS in Best buy when they can't even pay for gas or keeping the family fed? Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 1 (BBY) awoodworth0001 (< 20) Submitted: 6/20/08 10:36 AM : Start Price: $42.35 BBY Score: 2.00 BBY is going to hurt...here is why... --Bad economy forces consumers to give up luxury goods--IE. electronics. --To save on trips and find value prices, consumers go to WalMart and other major supercenters. --Wal Mart, Target, Costco are becoming incresingly competitive and agressive with thier electronic strategies. For this reason, consumers take note while they are doing their "bargain shopping" at these locations. --Over time, consumers will establish thier rapport with TGT, WM, or COST instead of BBY and BBY's organic growth will fall. --Wal Mart has expressed interest in getting into the Services game. This will certainly take a chunk out of Geek Squad. Therefore, over time, even in a rebounded econonmy, BBY will not rebound. Its a good company, a good business plan, a good fundamental, and has a good strategy. But I'm afraid its going to be a victim of this terrible economy unless we can get out of it very very very soon....... Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
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