Report
Jaime Katz
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Competition in retailing weighs on Bed Bath's profit potential and execution uncertainty remains.

No-moat Bed Bath’s second-quarter results continue to relay the competitive state of retailing, with the company struggling to move back into positive same-store sales generation. While we anticipated weakness in same-store sales performance, projecting a quarter with around 1% same-store declines, the magnitude of the actual slowdown was wider than we anticipated, with same store contracting 2.6%. And while e-commerce continues to grow at a more than 20% clip, we don’t think it’s meaningful eno...
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.

Analysts
Jaime Katz

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