Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. BNED
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What this company does
Written from the business description in Barnes & Noble Education, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 9 July 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
Revenue compounded at +4.0% a year over the five years to FY2025.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Profitability
Each USD of equity produced 6 cents of profit this year.
The 13-year record
EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| Operating income $B | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | −0.1 | −0.1 | −0.2 | −0.0 | −0.0 | −0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| EBITDA $B | 0.1 | 0.0 | −0.0 | −0.0 | −0.0 | −0.1 | −0.0 | 0.0 | −0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Income tax $B | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | −0.0 | −0.0 | −0.0 | −0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Net income $B | 0.0 | −0.1 | −0.1 | −0.1 | −0.1 | −0.1 | −0.0 | −0.0 | −0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.0 | −0.1 | −0.0 | 0.1 | −0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | 0.0 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 0.49 | −2.50 | −28.46 | −38.61 | −1.33 | −2.81 | −0.80 | −0.52 | −5.40 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0.88 |
| Dividend / sh $ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ |
| Payout % — not applicable: no dividend | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| ROE % | 6.0 | −37.3 | −64.9 | −53.4 | −26.4 | −39.3 | −8.8 | −5.3 | −42.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 4.7 |
| Shares out B | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.00 | ◌ |
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Company facts, as filed
Reconciled in 13 of the 13 fiscal years we could check. 14 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2014. Six checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2013. Six checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2013.