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Jaime Katz
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Bed Bath’s Waning Competitive Position Leads to $35 FVE as Share Declines Unlikely to Abate

After reassessing our thesis on no-moat Bed Bath & Beyond, we have lowered our fair value estimate materially to $35 per share from $64. While we thought the company was taking the right steps to improve its business, we now think it will face difficulties gaining the modest improvements in our prior forecast, which included 1% comp growth on average, 10 basis points in gross margin expansion, and 20 basis points of SG&A leverage (from 37.5% and 28.2% in 2016, respectively) over the next...
Underlying
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.

Bed, Bath & Beyond is an omnichannel retailer providing products, services and solutions for the home and life events. The company operates an ecommerce platform consisting of various websites and applications, including bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, harmondiscount.com, and facevalues.com. The company sells an assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Domestics merchandise includes categories such as bed linens and related items, bath items and kitchen textiles. Home furnishings include categories such as kitchen and tabletop items, fine tabletop, basic housewares, general home furnishings (including furniture and wall decor), consumables and certain juvenile products.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Jaime Katz

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