Company data sheet · Best Buy
Best Buy: profitable every year, and standing still.
- Industry
- Radio, TV & Consumer Electronics Stores
- Headquarters
- United States
- Ticker
- BBY (NYSE)
- Sources
- SEC filings (1994–2026), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- Left behind by its peers. From 2016 to 2025, its revenue grew 6% in US dollars; the median among 52 large retailers grew 74%. It outgrew only 15% of them.
- Still smaller than it was. Revenue reached $41.7 billion in fiscal 2026, 19% below its fiscal 2022 peak of $51.8 billion.
- Four decisions on record. Stratrix has verified four of Best Buy's big decisions, each with what happened next. The best: "Best Buy Quit Fighting on Price and Turned Amazon's Own Suppliers Into Landlords", 77 points ahead of the S&P 500 over the next three years.
- Profitable every year. Best Buy made money in each of its last eleven fiscal years, from $0.9 billion (fiscal 2016) to $2.5 billion (fiscal 2022).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $39.5 billion | $0.9 billion | |
| 2017 | $39.4 billion | $1.2 billion | |
| 2018 | $42.2 billion | $1 billion | |
| 2019 | $42.9 billion | $1.5 billion | |
| 2020 | $43.6 billion | $1.5 billion | |
| 2021 | $47.3 billion | $1.8 billion | |
| 2022 | $51.8 billion | $2.5 billion | |
| 2023 | $46.3 billion | $1.4 billion | |
| 2024 | $43.5 billion | $1.2 billion | |
| 2025 | $41.5 billion | $0.9 billion | |
| 2026 | $41.7 billion | $1.1 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
Stratrix Decision Cases
- 2018Best Buy Could Install the Hospital in Your Home. It Couldn't Get the Hospital to Pay.
- 2013Best Buy Beat Showrooming by Surrendering on Price. Then It Won on Everything Else.
- 2012Best Buy Quit Fighting on Price and Turned Amazon's Own Suppliers Into Landlords
- 1989Best Buy Killed Commissions in 1989; Five Suppliers Still Control Roughly 55% of What It Buys
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- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 39 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (29 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 71 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
- Methods and sources, so each number can be checked and cited.
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