Barnes & Noble Education (STU:2BN0) 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio : -1.10% (As of Jan. 2025)

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What is Barnes & Noble Education 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio?

Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.

3-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past three years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. Barnes & Noble Education's current 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was -1.10%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Barnes & Noble Education's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

STU:2BN0' s 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.1 Med: -1.1 Max: 1.2
Current: -1.1

During the past 13 years, Barnes & Noble Education's highest 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 1.20%. The lowest was -3.10%. And the median was -1.10%.

STU:2BN0's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked worse than
60.21% of 671 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: -0.3 vs STU:2BN0: -1.10

Competitive Comparison of Barnes & Noble Education's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Barnes & Noble Education's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year Share Buyback 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.

Barnes & Noble Education's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Barnes & Noble Education's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

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Barnes & Noble Education 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Calculation

This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with expontential compound based on the latest four years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).

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Barnes & Noble Education (STU:2BN0) 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation

A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.

Be Aware

Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.

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Barnes & Noble Education Inc is an operator of bookstores in college and university campuses across the United States. The company is also engaged in providing digital education services. It operates in three reportable segments that include Retail offers existing and prospective clients the flexibility of physical, virtual, or custom store solutions, and wholesale is comprised of the wholesale and virtual retail fulfillment, and support operations of the MBS subsidiary, also Corporate Services represent unallocated shared-service costs which include corporate level expenses and other governance functions, including executive functions, such as accounting, legal, treasury, information technology, and human resources. It earns majority of the revenue from Retail segment.

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