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Bed Bath & Beyond

BBBY
13
Specialty Retail · Consumer Cyclical
Price
$5.03
-0.15 (-2.90%)
Market Cap
$374.7M
Winston Score
13
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Share count rising — dilution

+38.8% over 3y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 43.3M (2022) → 60.1M (2025)

Bed Bath & Beyond is a retail chain that sells home goods like bedding, towels, kitchen appliances, and bathroom accessories. It operates physical stores across the United States and Canada, along with a website, targeting everyday shoppers furnishing or upgrading their homes. The company also owns the buybuy BABY brand, which sells products for infants and young children.

The company makes money by selling products directly to consumers in its stores and online, keeping a portion of each sale as gross profit. With a gross margin near 25% and a deeply negative operating margin, the business is spending significantly more than it earns from operations. Bed Bath & Beyond faces intense competition from Amazon, Walmart, Target, and specialty retailers, and it has struggled for years with declining store traffic, heavy discounting, and rising costs — making its path back to profitability the central challenge facing the business.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+6.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+67.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$90M/ year

Declining (-7% vs prior year)

8.6% of revenue

2.2x the sector average (4%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

2.0%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~4 years

$200M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

$200M cash & investments at current burn rate

Growth context

Bed Bath & Beyond is growing revenue at 7% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

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Quality

Gross Margin
23.9%
Thin — 23.9% gross margin
Operating Margin
-7.3%
Losing money on operations — -7.3%
ROCE
-8.4%
Weak — -8.4% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-14.8%
Shrinking sales (-14.8% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
0/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
-3.3%
Burning cash (-3.3%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.08
Conservative — low debt load (0.08)
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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