Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, book retailer Barnes & Noble (BKS) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Barnes & Noble and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Barnes & Noble facts
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Headquarters (founded) |
New York (1986) |
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Market Cap |
$856.7 million |
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Industry |
Specialty stores |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$7.2 billion |
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Management |
Founder/Chairman Leonard Riggio |
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Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) |
(4.8%) |
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Cash/Debt |
$471.0 million / $338.4 million |
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Competitors |
Amazon.com (AMZN -1.14%)Apple (AAPL -0.57%)Books-A-Million (NASDAQ: BAMM) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 54% of the 663 members who have rated Barnes & Noble believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last month, one of those Fools, MrReliaBull, succinctly summed up the Barnes & Noble bear case for our community:
Anti brick-and-mortar play. Everything that e-commerce has done for the consumer (no more physical CDs, less physical books and DVD's) has come at Barnes & Noble's expense. They've shown their semi-nimble, but with so much overhead to subsidize, I feel they're too shackled to be successful moving forward.
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