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Barnes & Noble Education, Inc

BNED Consumer Cyclical Specialty Retail

Barnes & Noble Education, Inc’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended April 2026) was $1.7 billion, up 6.50% from fiscal 2025.

Revenue
+0.85%
EPS
+31.5%
Free cash flow
+20.9%
Total debt
−27.4%

Quarter to July 2026, against a year earlier

12.67 0.05 −0.39%
Market cap
$440.9M
P/E
19.5×
Fwd P/E
14.3×
Dividend yield
1.26%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
1.95
Beneish M
−2.59
Dividend safety
66/100
Overview
Financials
Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Sold, $m 1.39
Trades a month
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — — — — 2 — — — 6 — 2 —
Insider Ownership 50.68%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 440.94
Revenue ttm 1,717.21
Net income ttm 22.23
Free cash flow ttm 48.80
Net debt Q 115.69
Valuation
P/E 19.49
Forward P/E 14.30
Price / sales 0.25
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 8.97
Price / book 1.57
Financial health
Current ratio Q 1.66 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt / equity Q 0.44 (at or below 0.5: strong)
Interest coverage Q (6.35)
Growth
Revenue growth Q +0.85% (above 0%: growing)
Operating income growth Q +25.50% (above 0%: growing)
EPS, this year +47.12% (at or above 15%: strong)
EPS, next year A +47.14% (at or above 15%: strong)
Revenue, next year A +2.87%
EPS, past 5 yrs —
EPS, next 5 yrs A +20.00% (at or above 15%: strong)

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges; (Q) is the latest quarter, (A) analysts’ estimates. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 0.5×, against a ten-year median of 0.3×; over the ten years it ranged from 0.1× in 2020 to 0.5× in 2023.
P/S against its own 10 years 83.77%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 86.78%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 94.27%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 47.41%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Yield
1.26%
Annual rate
0.16
Payout ratio
25.0%
  1. 0.16 ’26
paid Powerpack

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2024 2025 2026 Q'26
Cash 10 9 8 8
Receivables 99 98 117 177
Inventory 344 300 298 366
Other 28 26 27 6
521 465 484 594
2024 2025 2026 Q'26
Payables 299 149 136 211
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other — — — —
475 279 284 357

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales (0.53%) 4.04% 3.58%
Cash Flow (4.94%) 8.76% (18.26%)
Earnings 69.94% 0.00% 0.00%
Book Value (8.40%) 0.10% 31.07%

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

Q2 FY18 Estimate 100.00 Actual 103.00

Earnings per share against the consensus, by quarter
Quarter Estimate Reported Result
Q3 FY17 17.00 9.00 Miss by 8.00
Q4 FY17 21.00 0.00 Miss by 21.00
Q1 FY18 −69.00 −75.00 Miss by 6.00
Q2 FY18 100.00 103.00 Beat by 3.00
Q2 FY27 0.67 — Reports 19 January 2027

EPS $

Jul Oct Jan Apr Year
’26 (0.37) — — — —
’26 (0.54) 0.72 0.19 0.10 0.49
’25 (7.36) 1.63 0.59 (0.69) (2.50)
’24 (96.00) 9.11 (3.49) (15.69) (28.46)
’23 (101.00) 42.00 (48.00) (88.00) (38.61)
’22 (86.00) 41.00 (71.00) (21.00) (133.00)
’21 (96.00) 15.00 (96.00) (86.00) (265.00)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Jul Oct Jan Apr Year
’26 291 — — — —
’26 288 644 515 267 1,715
’25 263 602 463 282 1,610
’24 264 610 457 236 1,567
’23 255 609 438 242 1,543
’22 241 627 403 225 1,496
’21 204 595 412 195 1,407
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Jul Oct Jan Apr Year
’26 (53) — — — —
’26 (68) 66 (29) 81 50
’25 (144) 47 (42) 53 (85)
’24 (123) 72 (36) 82 (5)
’23 (29) 38 (32) 114 92
’22 (17) 42 (16) (7) 1
’21 (53) 145 (50) (8) 33
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Jul Oct Jan Apr Year
’26 (56) — — — —
’26 (71) 62 (33) 76 34
’25 (147) 44 (45) 50 (98)
’24 (127) 68 (39) 79 (19)
’23 (37) 29 (37) 111 67
’22 (29) 32 (29) (7) (32)
’21 (60) 135 (60) (10) 5
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to April

Ten-year view Analyst estimates Powerpack
Group Line 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 TTM Jul ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2027e 2028e 2029e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 1,874 2,204 2,035 1,851 1,407 1,496 1,543 1,567 1,610 1,715 1,717 (1.0%) 1,764 — — +2.9%
Gross margin, % 24.49 25.29 25.94 23.91 16.38 22.92 22.64 22.01 20.98 21.35 21.42 (3.1) pt
EBT 10 (273) (37) (50) (177) (71) (89) (74) (62) 21 28 +8.3%
EBT margin, % 0.54 (12.39) (1.84) (2.71) (12.57) (4.73) (5.78) (4.73) (3.82) 1.21 1.61 +0.7 pt
Net income 5 (253) (24) (38) (140) (69) (102) (76) (66) 17 22 +13.6%
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 4,046.55 4,712.61 4,300.66 3,855.58 2,831.72 2,887.52 584.99 588.64 61.23 49.95 49.73 (38.6%)
Earnings 12.00 (540.00) (52.00) (80.00) (265.00) (133.00) (38.61) (28.46) (2.50) 0.49 0.65 (29.9%)
Cash flow 146.77 128.40 257.43 (18.07) 66.23 2.24 34.75 (1.92) (3.25) 1.46 1.88 (40.1%)
Capex (74.85) (91.55) (98.12) (75.38) (55.49) (64.88) (9.51) (5.28) (0.49) (0.47) (0.46) (43.0%)
Free cash flow 71.93 36.85 159.31 (93.46) 10.74 (62.64) 25.24 (7.21) (3.74) 0.99 1.41 (37.9%)
Book value 1,540.82 1,000.78 952.50 870.13 589.92 440.88 49.56 30.20 10.35 8.58 8.06 (43.8%)
Shares, m 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 26 34 34 +61.3%
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 94.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 20.54 19.49 11.5
P/S 0.26 0.15 0.10 0.05 0.28 0.11 0.26 0.03 0.22 0.20 0.25 0.2
P/B 0.67 0.72 0.45 0.21 1.34 0.70 3.05 0.67 1.32 1.15 1.57 1.0
EV/Sales 0.33 0.23 0.16 0.14 0.40 0.25 0.43 0.30 0.42 0.36 0.45 0.3
EV/FCF 18.60 29.97 4.28 (5.63) 105.45 (11.59) 10.01 (24.18) (6.88) 18.46 15.93 13.8
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 68 60 122 (9) 33 1 92 (5) (85) 50 65 (3.3%)
Capex (35) (43) (46) (36) (28) (34) (25) (14) (13) (16) (16) (8.1%)
Free cash flow 33 17 75 (45) 5 (32) 67 (19) (98) 34 49 +0.2%
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 189 206 183 178 127 116 75 46 186 201 237 +0.7%
Net debt 141 180 119 166 170 217 168 186 94 63 116 (8.6%)
Shareholders’ equity 714 468 451 418 293 228 131 80 272 294 278 (9.4%)
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 0.45 (21.60) (2.46) (3.64) (12.78) (6.55) (9.93) (8.01) (7.74) 2.21 2.47 +1.8 pt
ROIC 0.99 (25.33) (3.03) (4.58) (22.80) (8.51) (13.90) (7.93) 2.72 6.40 6.73 +5.4 pt
ROE 0.75 (42.75) (5.31) (8.81) (39.34) (26.41) (56.73) (71.75) (37.34) 5.96 8.31 +5.2 pt
People
People Employees 6,700 6,600 6,000 5,500 4,095 4,600 4,620 3,750 3,559 3,613 — (6.6%)
Revenue/emp, $m 0.28 0.33 0.34 0.34 0.34 0.33 0.33 0.42 0.45 0.47 — +6.0%
Negative figures in brackets.
estimates

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Fiscal years to Apr 2026 · latest quarter Jul 2026 · fundamentals updated 26 Oct 2026

Barnes & Noble Education, Inc vs peers in Specialty Retail (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
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BWMX Betterware de Mexico SAPI de C $674.8M 9.2× 7.8× +30.92% (above 0%: growing) +28.89% (above 0%: growing) −11.82% (below 0%: shrinking) 65.49% 16.37% Compare
BNED Barnes & Noble Education, Inc $440.9M 19.5× 14.3× +0.85% (above 0%: growing) n/m +20.94% (above 0%: growing) 19.63% (5.94%)
ARKO ARKO Corp. $424.1M 46.9× 34.5× +17.39% (above 0%: growing) −75.00% (below 0%: shrinking) −8.34% (below 0%: shrinking) 12.68% 1.29% Compare
EVGO EVgo Inc. $390.0M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −15.69% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −232.84% (below 0%: shrinking) 8.88% (48.58%) Compare
QVCG QVC Group Inc. $379.0M — — −11.04% (below 0%: shrinking) — +530.77% (above 0%: growing) 34.05% 3.51% Compare
BBW Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. $338.5M 6.8× 7.3× −7.21% (below 0%: shrinking) −24.47% (below 0%: shrinking) −557.76% (below 0%: shrinking) 54.20% 9.61% Compare
CHPT ChargePoint Holdings, Inc. $248.9M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +17.74% (above 0%: growing) n/m +30.21% (above 0%: growing) 36.44% (29.34%) Compare
Median of peers $407.0M 23.6× 15.9× +8.72% +5.22% −2.23% 38.07% 3.36%

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Pay and ownership Proxy statement filed 12 August 2026

Ownership

Directors and executive officers, together 1.70%
Immersion Corporation 32.30%
Vital FundCo, LLC 9.30%
Entities affiliated with Kanen Wealth Management LLC 8.90%
Springhouse Capital Management (U.S.), L.P. 6.70%
Ownership is the proxy’s own table: the directors and officers as a group, and every holder of 5% or more. Read the proxy statement

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