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Barnes & Noble Education, Inc.
Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (BNED) is listed on NYSE and classified in Specialty Retail, part of the Consumer Cyclical sector. It is headquartered in Florham Park, United States and has 2,365 employees. The company is worth $483.58M and trades at 21.5x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 17.7x. Revenue was $1.71B in fiscal 2026, up 6.5% from the year before. Net income was $16.87M. The share price is 5.4% below its 52-week high of $14.75. It pays a dividend yielding 2.29%. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Israel Englander (Millennium Management), at $1.86M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $25.39K of its stock on the open market and bought none.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -98.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $12.55▼ -98.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 12 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $12.95 | $9.19 | $10.04 | $149.00 | $175.00 | $681.00 | $465.00 | $427.00 | $401.00 | $824.00 | $1,147.00 | $995.00 | |
| P/E | 30.2x | 26.4x | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 2.3% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 17.7 among peers in the sector.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 10.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Cyclical, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOUTJohnson Outdoors Inc | $45.44 | — | 1.1x | 2.90% | -1.81% | $476.2M |
| MCFTMasterCraft Boat Holdings, Inc. | $20.29 | — | 1.3x | 0.00% | -0.57% | $493.85M |
| WEYSWeyco Group Inc | $51.87 | 14.5x | 1.9x | 5.98% | 13.81% | $495.41M |
| HVTHaverty Furniture Companies Inc |
| 74.9x |
| — |
| 30.2x |
| P/S | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.3x | — |
| P/B | 0.5x | 1.5x | 1.1x | 3.3x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 1.2x | 0.5x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.7x | — |
| EPS | $0.49 | -$2.50 | -$28.46 | -$38.61 | -$133.00 | -$281.00 | -$80.00 | -$52.00 | -$540.00 | $11.00 | $0.00 | $33.00 |
| Dividend yield | — | 1.24% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | — | 32.65% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | -3.08% | 0.98% | -4.09% | -4.83% | -6.60% | -4.60% | -9.94% | -2.07% | -1.20% | -11.46% | 0.29% | 0.00% | 1.08% |
| ROE | -16.67% | 5.73% | -24.18% | -94.22% | -66.53% | -30.15% | -47.71% | -9.16% | -5.41% | -53.97% | 0.75% | 0.01% | 2.63% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-2.0% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| $29.88 |
| 21.8x |
| 1.6x |
| 4.42% |
| 7.62% |
| $465.94M |
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