Top 5 Value Stocks To Buy Right Now: Best Buy Co., Inc.(BBY)
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The Good
The market remains resistant (Rs over Ss and Ns). Brokerages, banks and insurance companies continue their league-leading strength. The Russell 2000 Index is up for the 15th consecutive day. Retail extends yesterday's strength. Nordstrom (JWN) , Macy's (M) , Best Buy (BBY) , Target (TGT) , Walmart (WMT) , Foot Locker (FL) and JCPenney (JCP) are strong. First day down for Amazon (AMZN) . Agricultural commodities are lackluster, but soybeans are up another up $0.05 today, up substantially for three days in a row. Speculative biotech (Sage (SAGE) , FibroGen (FGEN) , Acadia Pharmaceuticals (ACAD) and Aerie Pharmaceuticals (AERI) ) stronger after recent weakness. Ag equipment up big time after the Deere (DE) beat.The Bad
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Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHubert Joly, president and chief executive officer of Best Buy Co. NEW YORK -- Hubert Joly, CEO of Best Buy, sold some stock in order to help pay for his divorce settlement. In a regulatory filing, Joly said he exercised some 350,467 stock options at $18.02 a share, for a total of about $6.3 million. He then sold those shares, plus other holdings in the consumer electronics chain, for a total of 451,153 shares for $16.7 million. That means he made about $10.4 million from the sale. Best Buy Co. (BBY) said in a statement that Joly sold the stock "due to circumstances related to his marital dissolution." The chain said that he still owns stock that is substantially more than the 140,000 share ownership target that is part of it! s executive stock ownership guidelines. Last month, Best Buy reported second-quarter results that topped analyst estimates as it slashed costs and worked to make its website more competitive. The retailer has been shuttering underperforming stores and revamping others to offset tough competition from discounters and online retailers. Under Joly, who took the helm of the company a year ago, Best Buy has instituted a price-matching policy, opened more in-store areas for manufacturers such as Apple (AAPL) and Samsung, and invested more to train employees. Shares of Best Buy added 5 cents to $37.97 in afternoon trading. Earlier in the session, the stock hit $38, its highest point since December 2010. The stock has more than tripled since the start of the year.
Forecast store closings: 200 to 250 Number of U.S. stores:1,056 One-year stock performance: -36.8% The holiday season was rough for Best Buy (BBY). Same-store sales declined by 1.4% year-over-year, with international stores posting a 6.4% decline while U.S. same-store sales were flat. Company-wide, the electronics retailer reported that holiday revenue had declined to $12.8 billion from $12.9 billion the year before. In the most r
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