Best Buy Co (BSP:BBYY34) PB Ratio : 5.74 (As of Apr. 25, 2024)

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What is Best Buy Co PB Ratio?

The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-04-25), Best Buy Co's share price is R$400.00. Best Buy Co's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was R$69.71. Hence, Best Buy Co's PB Ratio of today is 5.74.

Good Sign:

Best Buy Co Inc stock PB Ratio (=5.25) is close to 3-year low of 4.93

The historical rank and industry rank for Best Buy Co's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

BSP:BBYY34' s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.01 Med: 5.34 Max: 8.15
Current: 5.25

During the past 13 years, Best Buy Co's highest PB Ratio was 8.15. The lowest was 2.01. And the median was 5.34.

BSP:BBYY34's PB Ratio is ranked worse than
86.35% of 1062 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 1.49 vs BSP:BBYY34: 5.25

During the past 12 months, Best Buy Co's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 10.60% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -7.40% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 0.50% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 0.90% per year.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Best Buy Co was 131.90% per year. The lowest was -15.70% per year. And the median was 11.90% per year.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio

Best Buy Co PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Best Buy Co's PB Ratio can be seen below:

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* 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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Best Buy Co PB Ratio Chart

Best Buy Co Annual Data

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Jan16

Jan17

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Jan19

Jan20

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Jan24

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6.52

6.40

7.03

6.61

5.14

Best Buy Co Quarterly Data
	Apr19	Jul19	Oct19	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24
PB Ratio	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															6.61	5.78	6.29	5.13	5.14

Competitive Comparison of Best Buy Co's PB Ratio

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Best Buy Co's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio 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.

Best Buy Co's PB Ratio Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Best Buy Co's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Best Buy Co's PB Ratio falls into.

Best Buy Co PB Ratio Calculation

The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.

Best Buy Co's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio	=	Share Price	/	Book Value per Share (Q: Jan. 2024)
	=	400.00	/	69.71
	=	5.74

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

PB Ratio

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(Total Stockholders Equity

Preferred Stock)

A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.

Best Buy Co (BSP:BBYY34) PB Ratio Explanation

Unlike valuation ratios relative to the earning power such as PE Ratio, PE Ratio without NRI, PS Ratio, Price-to-Operating-Cash-Flow , or Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, the PB Ratio measures the valuation of the stock relative to the underlying asset of the company.

The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.

Be Aware

Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.

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Best Buy Co (BSP:BBYY34) Business Description

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Address

7601 Penn Avenue South, Richfield, MN, USA, 55423

Website

https://www.investors.bestbuy.com

With $46.3 billion in consolidated fiscal 2023 sales, Best Buy is the largest pure-play consumer electronics retailer in the U.S., boasting roughly 8.5% share of the U.S. market and north of 35% share of offline sales, per our calculations, CTA, and Euromonitor data. The firm generates the bulk of its sales in-store, with mobile phones and tablets, computers, and appliances representing its three largest categories. Recent investments in e-commerce fulfillment, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have seen the U.S. e-commerce channel roughly double from prepandemic levels, with management estimating that it will represent a mid-30% proportion of sales moving forward.

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