Best Buy Co Inc (BBY): Today's Featured Retail Winner
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) pushed the Retail industry higher today making it today's featured retail winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.7%. By the end of trading, Best Buy rose 55 cents (3.6%) to $15.85 on average volume. Throughout the day, 7.1 million shares of Best Buy exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of seven million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $15.54-$16.25 after having opened the day at $15.61 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $15.30. Other companies within the Retail industry that increased today were:
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), up 4.7%,
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), up 4.6%,
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), up 4.4%, and
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), up 3.8%.
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Best Buy Co., Inc. operates as a retailer of consumer electronics, computing and mobile phone products, entertainment products, appliances, and related services primarily in the United States, Europe, Canada, and China. Best Buy has a market cap of $5.14 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of -5.3, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 34.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there is one analyst that rates Best Buy a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and 17 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Best Buy as a
. The company's strongest point has been its a solid financial position based on a variety of debt and liquidity measures that we have looked at. At the same time, however, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.
- You can view the full Best Buy Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 42.6%,
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), down 12.9%,
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), down 7.5%, and
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), down 6.1%, were all laggards within the retail industry with
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) being today's retail industry laggard.
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) while those bearish on the retail industry could consider
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