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Barnes & Noble (Barnes & Noble) EBITDA : $116 Mil (TTM As of Apr. 2019)


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What is Barnes & Noble EBITDA?

Barnes & Noble's EBITDA for the three months ended in Apr. 2019 was $3 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2019 was $116 Mil.

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Barnes & Noble's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in Apr. 2019 was $0.05. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2019 was $1.59.

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Barnes & Noble EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Barnes & Noble's EBITDA can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Barnes & Noble EBITDA Chart

Barnes & Noble Annual Data
Trend Apr10 Apr11 Apr12 Apr13 Apr14 Apr15 Apr16 Apr17 Apr18 Apr19
EBITDA
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Barnes & Noble Quarterly Data
Jul14 Oct14 Jan15 Apr15 Jul15 Oct15 Jan16 Apr16 Jul16 Oct16 Jan17 Apr17 Jul17 Oct17 Jan18 Apr18 Jul18 Oct18 Jan19 Apr19
EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.55 8.42 -1.90 106.26 3.40

Competitive Comparison of Barnes & Noble's EBITDA

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Barnes & Noble's EV-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and EV-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Barnes & Noble's EV-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Barnes & Noble's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Barnes & Noble's EV-to-EBITDA falls into.


Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Barnes & Noble's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2019 is calculated as

Barnes & Noble's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Apr. 2019, Barnes & Noble's EBITDA was $116 Mil.

Barnes & Noble's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2019 is calculated as

Barnes & Noble's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Apr. 2019, Barnes & Noble's EBITDA was $3 Mil.

EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $116 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Sometimes companies may have already deducted Depreciation and Amortization from Gross Profit. In this case Depreciation and Amortization needs to be added back when calculating EBITDA.

Barnes & Noble  (NYSE:BKS) EBITDA Explanation

EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals Operating Income. Operating Income is profit before interest and taxes. Of course, Interest and taxes need to be paid.

While depreciation and amortization expenses do not need to be paid in cash, assets - especially tangible assets - do need to be replaced over time. EBITDA is not a measure of profit in any sense. EBITDA is a measure of cash generation by a business where the uses of that cash may be more or less discretionary depending on the nature of the business.

The EBITDA of a TV station is largely discretionary. Owners may use much of the EBITDA generated by a TV station as they see fit. The EBITDA of a railroad is largely non-discretionary. Owners must use much of the EBITDA generated by a railroad to replace the physical assets of the railroad or the business will literally fall apart over time.

EBITDA can be thought of as the cash a business generates that is available to:

Add more inventory
Add more receivables
Replace property, plant, and equipment
Add more property, plant, and equipment
Pay interest
Pay taxes
And finally: pay owners

EBITDA is widely used in financial analysis because Depreciation and Amortization are not present day cash expenses.. Depreciation and amortization are the spreading out of the costs of assets over the time in which those assets provide benefits. Today's depreciation and amortization expenses relate to assets bought in the past. The assets being expensed may or may not need to be replaced in the future. And the cost to replace the assets may be more or less than it was in the past. For this reason, the depreciation and amortization expenses a company records in the present year may have no relationship to the actual cash costs needed to maintain its assets in future years.

A company's depreciation expense depends on both its expectations about the assets it owns and its choice of accounting methods. Two companies owning identical assets may have different depreciation expenses because they have different expectations about the useful lives of those assets and because they make different accounting choices.

Analysts use EBITDA to remove this element of personal choice from a company's accounting statements. The use of EBITDA is an attempt to make the results of different companies more comparable and uniform.


Be Aware

Although depreciation is not a cash cost it is a real business cost because the company has to pay for the fixed assets when they purchase them. Both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger hate the idea of EBITDA because in this calculation, depreciation is not counted as an expense.

EBITDA over Revenue is a good metric for comparing the operating efficiencies between companies because EBITDA is less vulnerable to companies' accounting choices. For this reason, EBITDA is used in ranking the Predictability of Companies. Also Price-to-EBITDA is sometimes used in valuations.


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Barnes & Noble (Barnes & Noble) Business Description

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122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, USA, 10011
Barnes & Noble is a United States-based company that is mainly engaged in retail of books and products of content, digital media, and educational products. The company operates in a multichannel model, including a physical bookstore network throughout the country, an e-commerce platform on BN.com, and its Nook digital business. The company offers books, magazines, music, DVDs, newspapers, and entertainment content, along with e-reading products under the Nook brand. Retail sales from physical stores and BN.com account for the majority of the company's total revenue.
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Al Ferrara director 433 LAWNDALE DRIVE, SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY UT 84115
Mark D Carleton director 12300 LIBERTY BLVD., ENGLEWOOD CO 80112
Scott S Cowen director 7=6823 ST CHARLES AVE, NEW ORLEANS LA 70118
William Earl Wood officer: Exec. VP, Pres. of Digital 1901 CAPITAL PARKWAY, AUSTIN TX 78746
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Irwin D Simon director C/O THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP INC., 1111 MARCUS AVENUE, LAKE SUCCESS NY 11042
Leonard Riggio director, 10 percent owner, officer: Executive Chairman 122 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK NY 10011
Allen W Lindstrom officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O BARNES & NOBLE, INC., 122 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10011
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