Best Buy (BBY) reported $13.81 billion in revenue for the quarter ended January 2026, representing a year-over-year decline of 1%. EPS of $2.61 for the same period compares to $2.58 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -0.67% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $13.91 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $2.48, the EPS surprise was +5.14%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Best Buy performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Comparable store sales - Enterprise - YoY change: -0.8% versus 0.1% estimated by nine analysts on average.
- Comparable store sales - Domestic - YoY change: -0.8% versus the six-analyst average estimate of -0.1%.
- Comparable store sales - International - YoY change: -1.3% versus 0.8% estimated by six analysts on average.
- Number of stores - International - Total: 142 versus 157 estimated by five analysts on average.
- Number of stores - Domestic - Pacific Sales: 20 compared to the 20 average estimate based on four analysts.
- Number of stores - International - Canada Best Buy Stores: 130 compared to the 129 average estimate based on four analysts.
- Number of stores - International - Canada Best Buy Mobile Stand-Alone Stores: 12 compared to the 28 average estimate based on four analysts.
- Number of stores - Domestic - Best Buy: 886 versus the four-analyst average estimate of 886.
- Number of stores - Domestic - Total: 926 versus 926 estimated by four analysts on average.
- Number of stores - Total: 1,068 versus 1,082 estimated by four analysts on average.
- Geographic Revenue- Domestic: $12.58 billion versus the six-analyst average estimate of $12.62 billion. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -1.1%.
- Geographic Revenue- International: $1.24 billion compared to the $1.24 billion average estimate based on six analysts. The reported number represents a change of +0.5% year over year.
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Shares of Best Buy have returned -6.5% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -1.3% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell), indicating that it could underperform the broader market in the near term.
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