Warning: BNED is at high risk of performing badly

Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE:BNED) has characteristics which have been historically associated with poor future stock performance. BNED has decelerating momentum and inferior profitability when compared to other Consumer Discretionary stocks, to the point that it gets a Sell rating from our Quant rating system. Stocks rated Sell or worse by our Quant rating system have massively underperformed the S&P 500, as this article will describe.
The company has 1Y Price Performance of -93.08% while the Consumer Discretionary sector median is -12.72%.

The company has Return on Common Equity (TTM) of -62.07% while the Consumer Discretionary sector median is 11.64%.

Due to these factors our quant model has rated Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. as Sell and the company has an overall rank of 411 out of 2096 in the Consumer Discretionary sector. Compared to the S&P 500, stocks rated Sell or worse were down 20% on average per year over the last 10 years.

If you are looking for alternatives to Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE:BNED) see our top rated Consumer Discretionary sector stocks by quant rating. Our top rated stocks have beaten the S&P 500 by 1300% over the last 10 years.
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