Best Buy
BBY · Computer & Electronics Retail
$99.87
0.0%Upbound Group
UPBD · Computer & Electronics Retail
$17.08
1.7%The short version
- Best Buy is the larger business, with $41.7B of revenue in fiscal 2026 against $4.7B for Upbound Group, about 8.9 times as much.
- Upbound Group grew revenue faster (8.7%, against 0.4%).
- Upbound Group kept more of each dollar of sales as operating profit (4.8% operating margin, against 3.3% operating margin).
- Upbound Group turned more of its sales into free cash flow (5.1% FCF margin, against 3.0% FCF margin).
- Investors pay more for each dollar of Best Buy’s earnings: a P/E of 16.6x against 11.1x for Upbound Group.
| Latest fiscal year | BBY · FY26 | UPBD · FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Size | ||
| Market cap | $21.2B | $1.0B |
| Revenue | $41.7B | $4.7B |
| Free cash flow | $1.3B | $239M |
| Net income | $1.1B | $73.2M |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth | 0.4% | 8.7% |
| 5-year growth | −2.5% | 10.8% |
| Share count change | −2.1% | 4.8% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 22.5% | 48.4% |
| Operating margin | 3.3% | 4.8% |
| Net margin | 2.6% | 1.6% |
| FCF margin | 3.0% | 5.1% |
| Return on capital | 43.9% | — |
| Return on equity | 37.0% | 11.1% |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net debt | −$562M | — |
| Net debt / EBITDA | −0.3x | — |
| Dividends and buybacks | $1.1B | $87.9M |
| Valuation & quality | ||
| P/E | 16.6x | 11.1x |
| Piotroski F-score | 7 | — |
FY17
BBY $39.4B
UPBD $2.7B
FY18
BBY $42.2B
UPBD $2.7B
FY19
BBY $42.9B
UPBD $2.7B
FY20
BBY $43.6B
UPBD $2.8B
FY21
BBY $47.3B
UPBD $4.6B
FY22
BBY $51.8B
UPBD $4.2B
FY23
BBY $46.3B
UPBD $4.0B
FY24
BBY $43.5B
UPBD $4.3B
FY25
BBY $41.5B
UPBD $4.7B
FY26
BBY $41.7B
UPBD —
BBY
UPBD
FY17
BBY 4.7%
UPBD −2.3%
FY18
BBY 4.4%
UPBD 2.1%
FY19
BBY 4.4%
UPBD 9.5%
FY20
BBY 4.6%
UPBD 8.4%
FY21
BBY 5.1%
UPBD 6.1%
FY22
BBY 5.9%
UPBD 3.5%
FY23
BBY 3.9%
UPBD 4.1%
FY24
BBY 3.6%
UPBD 6.8%
FY25
BBY 3.0%
UPBD 4.8%
FY26
BBY 3.3%
UPBD —
BBY
UPBD
FY17
BBY $2.0B
UPBD $45.1M
FY18
BBY $1.5B
UPBD $200M
FY19
BBY $1.6B
UPBD $194M
FY20
BBY $1.8B
UPBD $202M
FY21
BBY $4.2B
UPBD $330M
FY22
BBY $2.5B
UPBD $407M
FY23
BBY $894M
UPBD $147M
FY24
BBY $675M
UPBD $48.5M
FY25
BBY $1.4B
UPBD $239M
FY26
BBY $1.3B
UPBD —
BBY
UPBD
FY17
BBY 53.9%
UPBD —
FY18
BBY 53.5%
UPBD —
FY19
BBY 64.8%
UPBD —
FY20
BBY 58.9%
UPBD —
FY21
BBY —
UPBD —
FY22
BBY —
UPBD —
FY23
BBY 81.5%
UPBD —
FY24
BBY 48.7%
UPBD —
FY25
BBY 34.5%
UPBD —
FY26
BBY 43.9%
UPBD —
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