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BNEDBarnes & Noble Education Inc
Consumer Discretionary · Other Specialty Stores · Small
$13.57−2.72%
As of 23 Oct 2026Mkt cap $420M
Stage 13
AVOID
Fundamentals
18.9/75
Technical
7.2/15
Independent
26.1/90
GCAE viewFundamental /75 is below the Stage 13 acceptable-business floor
Price
- 1M
- +21.9%
- 3M
- +5.7%
- 6M
- +25.2%
- 1Y
- +48.6%
Financials & valuation
Cached filing evidence · as of 2026-10-02
Valuation
- P/E
- 28.9xHist median 52.7x
- Forward P/E
- —No validated forward-estimate source
- Price / FCF
- —
- FCF yield
- —
Quality
- ROIC
- 6.7%
- Operating margin
- 1.0%
- FCF margin
- 2.0%
- Current ratio
- 1.7x
Growth
- Revenue growth
- +6.5%Latest FY YoY
- Revenue CAGR
- +3.5%
- EPS CAGR
- —
- FCF CAGR
- —
Capital
- Share-count trend
- +260.6%3Y annualised
- Net debt
- $215M4.3x OCF
Annual trend
- CAGR 2022–2026
- +3.5%
- Latest · 2026
- $2B
- YoY
- +6.5%
GCAE Research
- Quality Research
- NOT FLAGGED
- Acceleration Radar
- NOT FLAGGED
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
- Final / Opportunity
- NOT FLAGGED
Key takeaway
Fundamental /75 is below the Stage 13 acceptable-business floor
Unresolved question
No reliable unresolved question is available from the current committed evidence.
Watch next
- Next earnings · 2026-12-10
More details & evidence
Production decision
- Stage 13
- AVOID
- Technical state
- extended
- Rotation
- tailwind
- Evidence
- fresh
Presentation freshness
- Stage 11 market
- 2026-10-23 · Massive
- Financial cache
- 2026-10-02
- Quality Research
- NOT FLAGGED
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
Authority
- Company page
- Presentation only
- Scores
- Frozen GCAE production outputs
- Research
- Research-only lanes; no score override
- Private portfolio
- Not loaded