Barnes & Noble Education (BNED)

• Market cap: $308M
• 1 day: -3.77%
• 5 days: -7.27%
• 1 month: -7.02%
• 3 months: 2.93%
• 6 months: -16.67%
• Year to date: 0.39%
• 1 year: -87.42%
• 5 years: -97.23%
• 10 years: -99.31%
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Miscellaneous Shopping Goods Stores

About: Barnes & Noble Education Inc is an operator of bookstores in college and university campuses across the United States. The company is also engaged in providing digital education services. It operates in three reportable segments that include Retail offers existing and prospective clients the flexibility of physical, virtual, or custom store solutions, and wholesale is comprised of the wholesale and virtual retail fulfillment, and support operations of the MBS subsidiary, also Corporate Services represent unallocated shared-service costs which include corporate level expenses and other governance functions, including executive functions, such as accounting, legal, treasury, information technology, and human resources. It earns majority of the revenue from Retail segment.

Employees: 3,750

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

1,550% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 33 | Existing positions closed: 2

415% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $36.2M [Q3] → $187M (+$150M) [Q4]

374% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $10.7M | Put options by funds: $2.26M

200% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 1 [Q3] → 3 (+2) [Q4]

74% more funds holding

Funds holding: 42 [Q3] → 73 (+31) [Q4]

64% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 18 | Existing positions reduced: 11

46.63% more ownership

Funds ownership: 14.93% [Q3] → 61.56% (+46.63%) [Q4]