Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (BBBY): Today's Featured Retail Laggard
(
) pushed the Retail industry lower today making it today's featured Retail laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.7%. By the end of trading, Bed Bath & Beyond fell $0.91 (-1.2%) to $75.68 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1,568,361 shares of Bed Bath & Beyond exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2,061,500 shares. The stock ranged in price between $75.25-$76.92 after having opened the day at $76.76 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $76.59. Other companies within the Retail industry that declined today were:
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), down 16.0%,
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), down 11.1%,
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), down 7.9% and
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), down 6.2%.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a chain of retail stores. Bed Bath & Beyond has a market cap of $16.7 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 37.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Bed Bath & Beyond a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Bed Bath & Beyond
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
- You can view the full Bed Bath & Beyond Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 4.6%,
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), up 4.4%,
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), up 3.7% and
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), up 3.5% , were all gainers within the retail industry with
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) being today's featured retail industry leader.
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) while those bearish on the retail industry could consider
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