Best Buy Financial Ratios
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Best Buy ratio analysis
Best Buy earned a net margin of 2.6% in FY 2026, up from 2.2% a year earlier. Gross margin was 22.5% compared with a median of 22.6% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 36.1%, meaning Best Buy generated 0.36 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.40 versus 0.41 the year before, and the current ratio was 1.11. At the end of FY 2026, BBY traded at 12.9 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 9.9 to 21.9, with a median of 13.4. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Best Buy financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2026 | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2020 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 12.92 | 20.06 | 13.33 | 13.54 | 9.92 | 15.91 | 14.73 | 11.24 | 21.85 | 11.41 |
| Price / sales | 0.33 | 0.44 | 0.38 | 0.41 | 0.47 | 0.60 | 0.51 | 0.38 | 0.51 | 0.35 |
| Price / book | 4.63 | 6.58 | 5.40 | 6.85 | 7.98 | 6.16 | 6.45 | 4.89 | 5.92 | 2.94 |
| Gross margin | 22.5% | 22.6% | 22.1% | 21.4% | 22.5% | 22.4% | 23.0% | 23.2% | 23.4% | 24.0% |
| Operating margin | 3.3% | 3.0% | 3.6% | 3.9% | 5.9% | 5.1% | 4.6% | 4.4% | 4.4% | 4.7% |
| Net margin | 2.6% | 2.2% | 2.9% | 3.1% | 4.7% | 3.8% | 3.5% | 3.4% | 2.4% | 3.1% |
| Free cash flow margin | 3.0% | 3.4% | 1.6% | 1.9% | 4.9% | 8.9% | 4.2% | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5.0% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 36.1% | 33.0% | 40.6% | 50.8% | 81.3% | 39.2% | 44.3% | 44.3% | 27.7% | 26.1% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 7.3% | 6.3% | 8.3% | 9.0% | 14.0% | 9.4% | 9.9% | 11.3% | 7.7% | 8.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.40 | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.42 | 0.41 | 0.30 | 0.37 | 0.42 | 0.38 | 0.29 |
| Current ratio | 1.11 | 1.03 | 1.00 | 0.98 | 0.99 | 1.19 | 1.10 | 1.18 | 1.26 | 1.48 |
| Revenue growth | 0.4% | -4.4% | -6.1% | -10.6% | 9.5% | 8.3% | 1.8% | 1.7% | 7.0% | -0.3% |
| EPS growth | 17.8% | -24.6% | -9.7% | -36.1% | 43.9% | 19.0% | 10.6% | 59.5% | -14.4% | 48.8% |