BBY - Highlights from recent meetings with Best Buy's senior management team

Research evidence excerpt

BBY - Highlights from recent meetings with Best Buy's senior management team

Market Cap ($M) $15,424 We don’t sense any significant changes in strategy are on the horizon outside of speeding

up everything they are already doing, including trying to better capitalize on innovative ADTV 2,957,729

technologies (like RGB TV and AI wearables), adapt to AI agentic search/usage, and build Shares Out (M) 211 out alternative revenue streams. Ms. Barry and the BOD felt like it was an opportunistic time

Short Interest Ratio/% Of Float 9.7% for a leadership change given the improved stability of the company.

Dividend/Yield $3.84/5.3%

Enterprise Value ($M) $14,844 Consumer remains selective but is willing to spend for innovation – Similar to trends in

Cash & Equivalents ($M) $1,749 recent quarters, consumers are being very selective in what they want to purchase, and they

are demanding value in what they do buy, concentrating their purchases around holidays/ Total Debt ($M) $1,169

events and promotions (like Memorial Day). However, within that context, they are willing

to spend on innovation, including computing upgrades (with features like greater speeds

7 Page Document and longer battery life), where computing has now quietly posted 8 straight qtrs of positive

comps, and newer technologies such as smart rings. Our sense is that we are starting to

see an improving innovation cycle from the vendor community.

Reasons for this report

Appliances may be turning the corner – Best Buy, which has historically focused more

✓ Truist Securities Hosted Event Takeaways on higher-end appliance products (often used in upgrades as part of a home remodeling

project), has been disadvantaged because so much of the appliance biz today is driven

by duress (failure replacements).