Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS)
The Company's principal business is the sale of trade books, mass market paperbacks, children's books, bargain books, magazines, music and movies direct to customers.
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sid1138
(60.18)
Submitted: 11/24/2009 9:31:48 AM :
Start Price:
$22.10
BKS Score:
+11.48
It's all about the Nook. This alone will make them so good money. However, the additional electronic books sales will be huge. I figure the combo will add $2.00 per share to their bottom line by this time next year.
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spreadsheetV1
(< 20)
Submitted: 11/23/2009 1:15:48 AM :
Start Price:
$22.72
BKS Score:
+8.39
This met a high level screen to indicate a buy and strong outperform against its peers (other tickers in its industry). My 1st version of this spreadsheet devles deep into the company's balnace sheet and recent income statements, combined with other relevant price data for the company including insider/institutional holdings, short interest, debt levels, etc.
Testing capabilities of this 1st version of my automated, valuation spreadhseet matched with my personal criteria and see how it holds up.
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ethansolanoff
(< 20)
Submitted: 11/22/2009 7:03:18 PM :
Start Price:
$22.72
BKS Score:
+8.39
Barnes & Nobles has launched:
-The New E*book Device *The Nook*
-Barnes&Nobles is raking in profits from the newly released Electronic Reader software... Which allow's smartphone, mac, and PC users to download newspapers, magazines, and books, to read instantly.
-Online learning center
-Ethan S Olanoff-
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kevday
(99.63)
Submitted: 11/20/2009 9:13:52 AM :
Start Price:
$22.48
BKS Score:
+8.20
contrary bet against the shorts (http://bespokeinvest.typepad.com/bespoke/2009/11/most-and-least-heavily-shorted-russell-1000-stocks.html)
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oghowie
(88.04)
Submitted: 11/12/2009 1:46:15 PM :
Start Price:
$20.06
BKS Score:
+21.12
Huge short interest and pre-orders for the Nook are doing very well. I expect the shorts to get squeezed.
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GirlScoutDad
(98.77)
Submitted: 11/6/2009 10:34:04 AM :
Start Price:
$16.90
BKS Score:
+41.49
Value play, hopefully not a value trap. S&P feels dividend is intact; Nook coming on board.
Okay, I admit, I'm a sentimentalist for books and I plan to give out a lot of B&N gift cards for the holidays. I enjoy browsing in a leisurely manner in their stores.
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Prodigy16
(80.16)
Submitted: 10/29/2009 4:06:02 PM :
Start Price:
$16.93
BKS Score:
+40.99
EV/Cash Flow of just 2.2, 0 debt, Price/Sales of 0.18
Look, this isn't a big growth company, but it is priced as if it is dead. It still has a strong brand name, and with positive cash flow and this ridiculous valuation- I think its a Buy.
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havoc315
(97.28)
Submitted: 10/29/2009 11:07:10 AM :
Start Price:
$17.08
BKS Score:
+39.25
Yes, book stores are not exactly the future. But the stock is priced as if book stores are already dead. They have a bit of life left, and this stock is undervalued. The dividend makes it worth holding for a few years anyway.
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TSIF
(98.76)
Submitted: 10/26/2009 1:30:01 PM :
Start Price:
$17.65
BKS Score:
+36.05
Pitch by peanutjar caught my eye. Own DD also shows no debt, decent dividend, Christmas Season coming up. New e-book reader. I don't think books are dead. Print on demand will actually help book stores offer even more titles. If you think books are dead, even ebooks and people will forget how to read some day, then stay away from this one. If you stilll know how to read then read PeanutJar's pitch for more info.
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alexpaz
(95.49)
Submitted: 10/25/2009 1:59:42 PM :
Start Price:
$18.06
BKS Score:
+33.78
Great long term story for the following reasons- the "nook", 0 debt, current ratio >1, short ratio > .25%, and customer loyalty program...the mother of all short squeezes is coming!
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djveed
(52.22)
Submitted: 10/22/2009 3:05:29 PM :
Start Price:
$18.73
BKS Score:
+29.96
Risky play, but the stock is pretty badly beaten down and well under its moving averages. The Nook will likely provide enough sales to boost it up, but this is a short term play. The long term trend is relatively poor. Get in, sell in Q1 2010.
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PaulNolasco
(29.52)
Submitted: 10/22/2009 12:55:51 AM :
Start Price:
$18.37
BKS Score:
+31.11
- Nook! This would become one of the hottest item this Christmas. The device is technically way more advanced than Amazon's Kindle. The major points are: the capability to download samples, lend book to friends, expansion slot, supports open format such as EPUB/eReader and the ability to sample the Nook in their stores unlike Kindle which you can't!
- NO DEBT!!!
- 5-year average ROE is at 11%
- Despite the tough economy they've turn profit in Q2 2010.
- Monopolistic business nature. If you want to buy books there are probably only two stores that are renowned nationwide: Borders and Barnes & Noble. Barnes & Noble has the advantage of being the first one out of the gate with a digital reader and compare to B&N, Borders has debt and for the past 3 years have negative EPS.
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andywar123
(48.38)
Submitted: 10/21/2009 7:12:16 PM :
Start Price:
$18.35
BKS Score:
+31.64
Nook is going to be awesome!!!
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gokylego
(62.45)
Submitted: 10/6/2009 8:23:10 PM :
Start Price:
$23.80
BKS Score:
+1.61
Opening lots of new stores when they should be competing in online market share.
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00100
(96.79)
Submitted: 8/20/2009 1:26:24 AM :
Start Price:
$21.27
BKS Score:
+4.66
Upthumb. Cash cow. Zero debt. Heavily shorted.
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lordmorgul
(28.75)
Submitted: 8/15/2009 2:01:29 AM :
Start Price:
$19.96
BKS Score:
-10.81
Lots of pressure from purely online and used book retailers, particularly Amazon, is really eating into the market here. Until people feel better about buying books at higher price intentionally B&N is stagnant.
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Pattypoo212
(84.66)
Submitted: 8/6/2009 10:24:11 AM :
Start Price:
$23.77
BKS Score:
-16.66
As the great Tom Cruise once said in a not so well known movie, "People will read again!"
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TheBigLab
(22.37)
Submitted: 7/22/2009 8:41:17 PM :
Start Price:
$21.70
BKS Score:
-2.75
Ride some happy days with Borders stores closing
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JohnMcCloy
(71.63)
Submitted: 7/9/2009 12:30:14 PM :
Start Price:
$19.43
BKS Score:
-1.20
Bankruptcy coming with 2-3 years.
Technology> Huge stores
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matt1929
(< 20)
Submitted: 7/9/2009 9:18:14 AM :
Start Price:
$19.65
BKS Score:
+0.83
Seems like what they sell are discretionary purchases. The library parking lot where I live is full whenever I go this year, two or three years ago, it was normally less than half full. The Barnes and Noble in the same area closed earlier this year.
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