Best Buy Company IncBBYDON'T BUYSep 19, 2013Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Aug 04, 2026. Market Open.
Has a clean balance sheet, lots of cash, and pays a 4% dividend. Also, a big TV refresh cycle is coming, the first in a decade. BBY is the exclusive seller of next-wave RGB TVs for the first year in the US. The stock is cheap. RGB won't be as big as the OLED TV cycle, but will drive the cycle for 1.5 years.
(Analysts’ price target is $78.75)
This business is definitely under pressure. Like a lot of the big box format stores, they expanded and expanded and got into different areas of the market and became over saturated. The former chairman of the board is now back and things have improved. However, at the end of the day, the longer-term thesis is that the store format is to get much, much smaller and it has to address how the online retail businesses are essentially stealing their business. Thinks earnings power is lower over the medium term.