$BNED
Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. Stock $bned

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2020 Q4 Form 10-Q Financial Statement

#000163411720000154 Filed on December 08, 2020

Income Statement

Concept	2020 Q4	2019 Q4
Revenue	$595.5M	$772.2M
YoY Change	-22.89%	-5.22%
Cost Of Revenue	$480.2M	$585.3M
YoY Change	-17.95%	-3.1%
Gross Profit	$115.3M	$187.0M
YoY Change	-38.33%	-11.3%
Gross Profit Margin	19.36%	24.21%
Selling, General & Admin	$91.97M	$113.4M
YoY Change	-18.9%	-1.66%
% of Gross Profit	79.78%	60.66%
Research & Development
YoY Change
% of Gross Profit
Depreciation & Amortization	$14.40M	$16.50M
YoY Change	-12.73%	-0.6%
% of Gross Profit	12.49%	8.83%
Operating Expenses	$91.97M	$113.4M
YoY Change	-18.9%	-1.66%
Operating Profit	$6.733M	$56.43M
YoY Change	-88.07%	-28.09%
Interest Expense	-$900.0K	-$1.400M
YoY Change	-35.71%	-22.22%
% of Operating Profit	-13.37%	-2.48%
Other Income/Expense, Net
YoY Change
Pretax Income	$5.821M	$54.99M
YoY Change	-89.41%	-28.26%
Income Tax	-$1.694M	$19.05M
% Of Pretax Income	-29.1%	34.65%
Net Earnings	$7.515M	$35.93M
YoY Change	-79.08%	-39.81%
Net Earnings / Revenue	1.26%	4.65%
Basic Earnings Per Share	$0.15	$0.75
Diluted Earnings Per Share	$0.15	$0.74
COMMON SHARES
Basic Shares Outstanding	48.80M shares	47.85M shares
Diluted Shares Outstanding	49.43M shares	48.76M shares

Balance Sheet

Concept	2020 Q4	2019 Q4
SHORT-TERM ASSETS
Cash & Short-Term Investments	$7.400M	$24.60M
YoY Change	-69.92%	23.0%
Cash & Equivalents	$7.353M	$24.59M
Short-Term Investments
Other Short-Term Assets	$23.80M	$18.50M
YoY Change	28.65%	11.45%
Inventory	$457.7M	$475.4M
Prepaid Expenses
Receivables	$167.5M	$162.5M
Other Receivables	$0.00	$0.00
Total Short-Term Assets	$707.0M	$749.2M
YoY Change	-5.63%	-0.26%
LONG-TERM ASSETS
Property, Plant & Equipment	$93.13M	$105.2M
YoY Change	-11.44%	-6.14%
Goodwill	$4.700M	$4.700M
YoY Change	0.0%	-91.29%
Intangibles	$166.1M	$184.2M
YoY Change	-9.8%	-13.88%
Long-Term Investments
YoY Change
Other Assets	$31.73M	$39.24M
YoY Change	-19.12%	-5.76%
Total Long-Term Assets	$590.0M	$631.0M
YoY Change	-6.51%	49.7%
TOTAL ASSETS
Total Short-Term Assets	$707.0M	$749.2M
Total Long-Term Assets	$590.0M	$631.0M
Total Assets	$1.297B	$1.380B
YoY Change	-6.03%	17.7%
SHORT-TERM LIABILITIES
YoY Change
Accounts Payable	$314.0M	$387.7M
YoY Change	-19.0%	-12.55%
Accrued Expenses	$134.2M	$197.2M
YoY Change	-31.96%	15.99%
Deferred Revenue	$32.84M	$48.99M
YoY Change	-32.96%	-3.73%
Short-Term Debt	$0.00	$0.00
YoY Change
Long-Term Debt Due	$0.00	$0.00
YoY Change
Total Short-Term Liabilities	$569.7M	$692.6M
YoY Change	-17.74%	12.93%
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
Long-Term Debt	$99.50M	$0.00
YoY Change
Other Long-Term Liabilities	$48.33M	$50.68M
YoY Change	-4.63%	-14.71%
Total Long-Term Liabilities	$48.33M	$50.68M
YoY Change	-4.63%	-14.71%
TOTAL LIABILITIES
Total Short-Term Liabilities	$569.7M	$692.6M
Total Long-Term Liabilities	$48.33M	$50.68M
Total Liabilities	$916.6M	$922.9M
YoY Change	-0.69%	35.59%
SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY
Retained Earnings	-$322.0M	-$240.8M
YoY Change	33.71%	20.93%
Common Stock	$736.2M	$731.0M
YoY Change	0.71%	1.14%
Preferred Stock
YoY Change
Treasury Stock (at cost)	$33.78M	$32.90M
YoY Change	2.68%	4.02%
Treasury Stock Shares	4.252M shares	3.842M shares
Shareholders Equity	$380.4M	$457.3M
YoY Change
Total Liabilities & Shareholders Equity	$1.297B	$1.380B
YoY Change	-6.03%	17.7%

Cashflow Statement

Concept	2020 Q4	2019 Q4
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net Income	$7.515M	$35.93M
YoY Change	-79.08%	-39.81%
Depreciation, Depletion And Amortization	$14.40M	$16.50M
YoY Change	-12.73%	-0.6%
Cash From Operating Activities	$142.9M	$201.6M
YoY Change	-29.12%	-23.64%
INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Capital Expenditures	-$9.100M	-$11.00M
YoY Change	-17.27%	-26.67%
Acquisitions
YoY Change
Other Investing Activities	$1.600M	$1.000M
YoY Change	60.0%	-110.0%
Cash From Investing Activities	-$7.500M	-$10.00M
YoY Change	-25.0%	-60.0%
FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Cash Dividend Paid
YoY Change
Common Stock Issuance & Retirement, Net
YoY Change
Debt Paid & Issued, Net
YoY Change
Cash From Financing Activities	-135.6M	-175.4M
YoY Change	-22.69%	-24.46%
NET CHANGE
Cash From Operating Activities	142.9M	201.6M
Cash From Investing Activities	-7.500M	-10.00M
Cash From Financing Activities	-135.6M	-175.4M
Net Change In Cash	-200.0K	16.20M
YoY Change	-101.23%	138.24%
FREE CASH FLOW
Cash From Operating Activities	$142.9M	$201.6M
Capital Expenditures	-$9.100M	-$11.00M
Free Cash Flow	$152.0M	$212.6M
YoY Change	-28.5%	-23.8%

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	us-gaap	Nature Of Operations NatureOfOperations	<div style="margin-top:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Note 1. </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Organization</span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Description of Business</span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (“BNED”) is one of the largest contract operators of physical and virtual bookstores for college and university campuses and K-12 institutions across the United States. We are also one of the largest textbook wholesalers, inventory management hardware and software providers, and a leading provider of digital education solutions. We operate 1,439 physical, virtual, and custom bookstores and serve more than 6 million students, delivering essential educational content and tools within a dynamic omnichannel retail environment. Additionally, we offer direct-to-student products and services to help students study more effectively and improve academic performance. </span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The strengths of our business include our ability to compete by developing new products and solutions to meet market needs, our large operating footprint with direct access to students and faculty, our well-established, deep relationships with academic partners and stable, long-term contracts and our well-recognized brands. We expect to continue to introduce scalable and advanced digital solutions focused largely on the student, expand our e-commerce capabilities, increase market share with new accounts, and expand our strategic opportunities through acquisitions and partnerships. We expect general merchandise sales to continue to increase over the long term, as our product assortments continue to emphasize and reflect the changing consumer trends, and we evolve our presentation concepts and merchandising of products in stores and online, as we improve our e-commerce capabilities through investments we are making in new systems, processes and people. </span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">We believe the BNC and MBS brands are synonymous with innovation in bookselling and campus retail, and, are widely recognized and respected brands in the United States. Our large college footprint, reputation, and credibility in the marketplace not only support our marketing efforts to universities, students, and faculty, but are also important for leading publishers who rely on us as one of their primary distribution channels, and for being a trusted source for students in our direct-to-student digital solutions business. </span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">We have three reportable segments: Retail, Wholesale and DSS. For additional information related to our strategies, operations and segments, see</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Part I - Item 1. Business </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">and </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Part II - Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data - Note 6. Segment Reporting </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 2, 2020</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> </span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In Fiscal 2020, we retained Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC to serve as a financial advisor in connection with our review of strategic opportunities. The review was designed to accelerate the execution of customer-focused strategic initiatives and enhance value for our shareholders, including, but not limited to, continued execution of our current business plan, new partnerships, joint ventures and other potential opportunities. On August 24, 2020, we announced that we had concluded our review of strategic opportunities. After extensive evaluation and deliberation, and in consultation with its financial and legal advisors, the Board unanimously determined that the continued execution of the Company’s current business plan is the best path forward for the Company and its shareholders.</span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">COVID-19 Business Impact</span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Our business experienced an unprecedented and significant impact as a result of COVID-19 related campus store closures. Beginning in March 2020, colleges and universities nationwide began to close their campuses in light of safety concerns and as </span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a result of local and state issued stay-at-home orders. By mid-March, during our fiscal fourth quarter, we closed the majority of our physical campus stores to protect the health and safety of our customers and employees.</span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">While our campus stores were closed, we continued to serve institutions and students through our campus websites, providing free shipping on all orders and an expanded digital content offering to provide immediate access to course materials to students at our campuses that closed due to COVID-19. We developed and implemented plans to safely reopen our campus stores based on national, state and local guidelines, as well as the campus policies set by the school administration. Colleges and universities in the United States continue to adjust their plans for each academic term, with some implementing shortened semesters or choosing to remain fully virtual in order to best protect students and faculty. Our fiscal 2021 second quarter results were significantly impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as many schools continued to adjust their learning model and on-campus activities in response to the pandemic. Fewer students returned to campus this fall, as many schools implemented a remote learning model and curtailed on-campus classes and activities. While many big athletic conferences resumed their sport activities, fan attendance at the games was either eliminated or severely restricted, which further impacted the company’s high-margin general merchandise business. Additionally, sales were impacted by overall enrollment declines in higher education. </span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">The COVID-19 impact on higher education remains a fluid situation, and we are committed to supporting our campus partners through our flexible offerings and our ability to quickly pivot to ensure uninterrupted service as institutions manage the safety of their campuses. There is still uncertainty about the duration and extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. If economic conditions caused by the pandemic do not recover as currently estimated by management or market factors currently in place change, there could be a further impact to our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows from operations.</span></div>
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	us-gaap	Basis Of Accounting BasisOfAccounting	<div style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Basis of Presentation and Consolidation</span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Our condensed consolidated financial statements reflect our condensed consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). In the opinion of the Company’s management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company contain all adjustments (consisting of only normal recurring adjustments) necessary to present fairly its consolidated financial position and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods reported. These condensed consolidated financial statements are condensed and therefore do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP. All material intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. </span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Our business is highly seasonal. Our quarterly results also may fluctuate depending on the timing of the start of the various schools' semesters, as well as shifts in our fiscal calendar dates. These shifts in timing may affect the comparability of our results across periods. Our fiscal year is comprised of 52 or 53 weeks, ending on the Saturday closest to the last day of April. Due to the seasonal nature of the business, the results of operations for the 13 and 26 weeks ended October 31, 2020 are not indicative of the results expected for the 52 weeks ending May 1, 2021 (Fiscal 2021). </span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">For certain of our retail operations, sales are generally highest in the second and third fiscal quarters, when students purchase and rent textbooks and other course materials for the typical academic year, and lowest in the first and fourth fiscal quarters. Sales attributable to our wholesale business are generally highest in our first, second and third quarters, as MBS sells textbooks and other course materials for retail distribution. Our DSS segment sales and operating profit are realized relatively consistently throughout the year.</span></div>
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2020 Q4 Form 10-Q Financial Statement

#000163411720000154 Filed on December 08, 2020

Income Statement

Balance Sheet

Cashflow Statement

Facts In Submission

Files In Submission

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