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Profile - Best Buy Company, Inc. (NYSE:BBY)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
7075 Flying Cloud Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Phone: (952) 947-2000
Fax: (952) 947-2422
Email: moneytalk@bestbuy.com
Employees (last reported count): 33,000
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Retail (Technology)
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 46%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 8,000  shares
 · 32 insider sells; 686.0K shares
  (0.7% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 65% (120% of float)
(959 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 4.09M shares (+2.92%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Best Buy Company, Inc. is a specialty retailer of consumer electronics, home office equipment, entertainment software and appliances. The Company operates retail stores and commercial Websites under the brand names Best Buy (BestBuy.com), Media Play (MediaPlay.com), On Cue (OnCue.com), Sam Goody (SamGoody.com), Suncoast (Suncoast.com) and Magnolia Hi-Fi (MagnoliaHiFi.com). Best Buy stores account for 68% of the Company's total retail square footage. Best Buy stores offer customers a broad selection of name-brand models consisting of approximately 6,000 products.
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Financial Summary
BBY sells personal computers and other home office products, consumer electronics, entertainment software, major appliances and related accessories through 419 retail stores. For the 13 weeks ended 6/2/01, revenues increased 25% to $3.70 billion. Net income fell 24% to $55 million. Revenues reflect strong sales of new and expanded digital technology product offerings. Earnings were offset by the expenses for starting up new stores and launching BestBuy.com.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Richard Schulze, 59
Chairman, CEO, Director
$2.6M$27.5M
Bradbury Anderson, 50
Vice Chairman, Pres, COO
1.4M8.0M
Darren Jackson, 36
CFO
--  --  
Allen Lenzmeier, 56
Pres, Best Buy Retail Stores,
957K6.0M
Elliot Kaplan, 51
Director and Sec.
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 26-Feb-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:BBYAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 7-Dec-2000
$21.00 
Recent Price$58.98 
52-Week High
on 14-Sep-2000
$70.625
Beta1.62 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)2.51M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)2.71M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-7.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+23.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$12.4B
Shares Outstanding210.0M
Float113.4M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 19-Mar-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$9.18 
Earnings (ttm)$1.78 
Earnings (mrq)$0.26 
Sales (ttm)$75.35 
Cash (mrq*)$2.22 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)6.43 
Price/Earnings (ttm)33.17 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.78 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$16.1B
EBITDA (ttm*)$786.4M
Income available to common (ttm)$378.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)2.4%
Operating Margin (ttm)3.6%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsMar 3
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
2-June-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-May-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)8.87%
Return on Equity (ttm)22.55%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.12 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.10 
Total Cash (mrq)$466.0M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short9.81M
Percent of Float8.6%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
8.82M
Short Ratio3.95 
Daily Volume2.48M
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-May-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 2-June-2001)

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