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14 Jan: Best Buy Reports Holiday Revenue Results

Domestic Revenue Decreased 0.8%

Repurchased $203 million in Stock for a Year-to-Date Total of $588 million

Improving the Fourth Quarter Operating Margin Outlook

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 14, 2016 — Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) today announced revenue results for the nine weeks ended January 2, 2016 as compared to the nine weeks ended Jan. 3, 2015. PDF version.

Fiscal 2016 Holiday Revenue Summary 9 weeks ended January 2, 2016 9 weeks ended January 3, 2015
Enterprise Revenue ($ in millions)1 $10,961 $11,366
Domestic segment $10,050 $10,132
Domestic segment year-over-year revenue change (0.8%) 4.1%
International segment1 $911 $1,233
Enterprise Comparable Sales % Change:
Excluding the estimated benefit of installment billing2,3 (1.4%) 1.8%4
Estimated benefit of installment billing3  0.2%  0.7%
Comparable sales % change2 (1.2%) 2.5%4
Domestic Comparable Sales % Change:
Excluding the estimated benefit of installment billing2,3 (1.4%) 2.6%
Estimated benefit of installment billing3 0.2% 0.8%
Comparable sales % change2 (1.2%) 3.4%
Comparable online sales % change2 12.6% 13.4%

 

Hubert Joly, Best Buy chairman and CEO, commented, “During the holiday period, Domestic revenue declined 0.8% against a backdrop where the NPD-reported categories were down a greater-than-expected 4.8%5.

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23 Dec: Best Buy Gift Cards Through The Years

As one of the first retailers to offer shoppers plastic gifts cards 20 years ago, Best Buy led one of the hottest trends in gift-giving.

Back then, our wallet-sized plastic cards replaced cumbersome paper gift certificates.

It took a while for shoppers to embrace the concept of gift cards, but today they’re one of the most popular items for gift-givers and gift-receivers. In fact, the National Retail Federation expected total spending on the cards to reach $25.9 billion in 2015.