$BNED
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2021 Q2 Form 10-K Financial Statement

#000163411721000041 Filed on June 30, 2021

Income Statement

Concept	2021 Q2	2021	2020 Q2
Revenue	$222.8M	$1.434B	$256.9M
YoY Change	-13.28%	-22.54%	-23.17%
Cost Of Revenue	$186.9M	$1.181B	$191.5M
YoY Change	-2.41%	-16.14%	-10.81%
Gross Profit	$35.90M	$252.7M	$65.40M
YoY Change	-45.1%	-42.91%	-44.29%
Gross Profit Margin	16.12%	17.62%	25.46%
Selling, General & Admin	$83.56M	$338.3M	$87.20M
YoY Change	-4.18%	-16.37%	-11.47%
% of Gross Profit	232.74%	133.89%	133.33%
Research & Development
YoY Change
% of Gross Profit
Depreciation & Amortization	$13.70M	$35.02M	$16.40M
YoY Change	-16.46%	-17.69%	-7.34%
% of Gross Profit	38.16%	13.86%	25.08%
Operating Expenses	$95.96M	$338.3M	$102.5M
YoY Change	-6.38%	-16.37%	-10.79%
Operating Profit	-$60.06M	-$176.9M	-$37.10M
YoY Change	61.88%	313.47%	-1582.22%
Interest Expense	-$2.211M	-$8.087M	-$1.600M
YoY Change	38.19%	9.28%	-15.79%
% of Operating Profit
Other Income/Expense, Net
YoY Change
Pretax Income	-$62.22M	-$185.0M	-$54.00M
YoY Change	15.22%	268.28%	-12.9%
Income Tax	-$9.837M	-$45.17M	-$13.70M
% Of Pretax Income
Net Earnings	-$52.38M	-$139.8M	-$40.30M
YoY Change	29.99%	265.52%	-12.8%
Net Earnings / Revenue	-23.51%	-9.75%	-15.69%
Basic Earnings Per Share		-$2.81
Diluted Earnings Per Share	-$1.020M	-$2.81	-$879.9K
COMMON SHARES
Basic Shares Outstanding	51.38M shares	49.67M shares	48.49M shares
Diluted Shares Outstanding		49.67M shares

Balance Sheet

Concept	2021 Q2	2021	2020 Q2
SHORT-TERM ASSETS
Cash & Short-Term Investments	$8.024M	$8.024M	$8.200M
YoY Change	-2.15%	-2.15%	-41.43%
Cash & Equivalents	$8.024M	$8.024M	$8.242M
Short-Term Investments
Other Short-Term Assets	$61.93M	$61.93M	$16.20M
YoY Change	282.3%	282.3%	37.29%
Inventory	$281.1M	$309.8M	$428.9M
Prepaid Expenses
Receivables	$121.1M	$99.58M	$90.90M
Other Receivables	$0.00	$21.49M	$0.00
Total Short-Term Assets	$500.8M	$500.8M	$584.9M
YoY Change	-14.38%	-14.37%	-1.09%
LONG-TERM ASSETS
Property, Plant & Equipment	$89.17M	$329.6M	$97.74M
YoY Change	-8.77%	-5.44%	-10.97%
Goodwill	$4.700M		$4.700M
YoY Change	0.0%		0.0%
Intangibles	$150.9M		$175.1M
YoY Change	-13.83%		-10.18%
Long-Term Investments
YoY Change
Other Assets	$29.11M	$45.05M	$35.31M
YoY Change	-17.57%	4.52%	-17.78%
Total Long-Term Assets	$530.3M	$530.3M	$571.5M
YoY Change	-7.21%	-7.21%	61.07%
TOTAL ASSETS
Total Short-Term Assets	$500.8M	$500.8M	$584.9M
Total Long-Term Assets	$530.3M	$530.3M	$571.5M
Total Assets	$1.031B	$1.031B	$1.156B
YoY Change	-10.84%	-10.83%	22.22%
SHORT-TERM LIABILITIES
YoY Change
Accounts Payable	$137.6M	$137.6M	$143.7M
YoY Change	-4.25%	-4.26%	-23.09%
Accrued Expenses	$93.59M	$172.6M	$95.42M
YoY Change	-1.92%	-1.13%	-21.61%
Deferred Revenue	$202.0K		$13.37M
YoY Change	-98.49%		-34.5%
Short-Term Debt	$50.00M	$0.00	$75.00M
YoY Change	-33.33%		-25.0%
Long-Term Debt Due	$50.00M	$50.00M	$75.00M
YoY Change	-33.33%	-33.33%	-25.0%
Total Short-Term Liabilities	$373.7M	$373.7M	$406.7M
YoY Change	-8.11%	-8.12%	-0.46%
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
Long-Term Debt	$127.6M	$127.6M	$99.70M
YoY Change	27.98%	27.98%	197.61%
Other Long-Term Liabilities	$52.04M	$236.8M	$46.17M
YoY Change	12.72%	14.63%	-13.72%
Total Long-Term Liabilities	$52.04M	$364.4M	$46.17M
YoY Change	12.72%	18.98%	-13.72%
TOTAL LIABILITIES
Total Short-Term Liabilities	$373.7M	$373.7M	$406.7M
Total Long-Term Liabilities	$52.04M	$364.4M	$46.17M
Total Liabilities	$738.1M	$738.1M	$738.7M
YoY Change	-0.08%	-0.08%	49.06%
SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY
Retained Earnings	-$422.6M		-$282.8M
YoY Change	49.43%		15.64%
Common Stock	$734.3M		$733.5M
YoY Change	0.11%		0.91%
Preferred Stock
YoY Change
Treasury Stock (at cost)	$19.14M		$32.90M
YoY Change	-41.82%		4.0%
Treasury Stock Shares			3.842M shares
Shareholders Equity	$293.0M	$293.0M	$417.8M
YoY Change
Total Liabilities & Shareholders Equity	$1.031B	$1.031B	$1.156B
YoY Change	-10.84%	-10.83%	22.22%

Cashflow Statement

Concept	2021 Q2	2021	2020 Q2
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net Income	-$52.38M	-$139.8M	-$40.30M
YoY Change	29.99%	265.52%	-12.8%
Depreciation, Depletion And Amortization	$13.70M	$35.02M	$16.40M
YoY Change	-16.46%	-17.69%	-7.34%
Cash From Operating Activities	-$8.705M	$32.90M	-$108.1M
YoY Change	-91.95%	-479.15%	96.19%
INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Capital Expenditures	-$11.32M	$37.22M	-$9.400M
YoY Change	20.46%	2.85%	-36.05%
Acquisitions		$0.00
YoY Change
Other Investing Activities	$435.0K	$335.0K	$7.100M
YoY Change	-93.87%	-94.92%	294.44%
Cash From Investing Activities	-$10.89M	-$36.89M	-$2.300M
YoY Change	373.39%	-0.35%	-82.17%
FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Cash Dividend Paid
YoY Change
Common Stock Issuance & Retirement, Net		-$14.11M
YoY Change		-1215.1%
Debt Paid & Issued, Net
YoY Change
Cash From Financing Activities	25.70M	$11.80M	108.8M
YoY Change	-76.38%	-70.45%	81.33%
NET CHANGE
Cash From Operating Activities	-8.705M	$32.90M	-108.1M
Cash From Investing Activities	-10.89M	-$36.89M	-2.300M
Cash From Financing Activities	25.70M	$11.80M	108.8M
Net Change In Cash	6.106M	$7.806M	-1.600M
YoY Change	-481.62%	-235.52%	-80.0%
FREE CASH FLOW
Cash From Operating Activities	-$8.705M	$32.90M	-$108.1M
Capital Expenditures	-$11.32M	$37.22M	-$9.400M
Free Cash Flow	$2.618M	-$4.328M	-$98.70M
YoY Change	-102.65%	-90.35%	144.31%

Facts In Submission

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CY2021	us-gaap	Nature Of Operations NatureOfOperations	<div style="margin-top:6pt"><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-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 1,417 physical, virtual, and custom bookstores and serve more than 6 million students, delivering essential educational content and tools within a dynamic omni channel 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 and accelerate such capabilities through our recent Fanatics Partnership, increase market share with new accounts, and expand our strategic opportunities through acquisitions and partnerships. We expect general merchandise sales to increase over the long term, as our product assortments continue to emphasize and reflect changing consumer trends, and we evolve our presentation concepts and merchandising of products in stores and online, which we expect to be further enhanced and accelerated through our partnership with Fanatics Retail Group Fulfillment, LLC, Inc. and Fanatics Lids College, Inc. (collectively referred to herein as the “FLC Partnership”). Through this partnership, we receive unparalleled product assortment, e-commerce capabilities and powerful digital marketing tools to drive increased value for customers and accelerate growth of our logo and emblematic general merchandise 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 believe the </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Barnes & Noble</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> brand (licensed from our former parent) along with our subsidiary brands, </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">BNC </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%">MBS,</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> are synonymous with innovation in bookselling and campus retailing, 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 to our relationship with 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 5. Segment Reporting.</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%">Partnership with Fanatics and FLC </span></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;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%">In December 2020, we entered into a new merchandising partnership with Fanatics Retail Group Fulfillment, LLC, Inc. (“Fanatics”) and Fanatics Lids College, Inc. (“FLC”). Through this partnership, we receive unparalleled product assortment, e-commerce capabilities and powerful digital marketing tools to drive increased value for customers and accelerate growth of our general merchandise business. Fanatics’ cutting-edge e-commerce and technology expertise offers our campus stores expanded product selection, a world-class online and mobile experience, and a progressive direct-to-consumer platform. Coupled with FLC, the leading standalone brick and mortar retailer focused exclusively on licensed fan and alumni products, our campus stores have improved access to trend and sales performance data on licensees, product styles, and design treatments. </span></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;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%">We maintain our relationships with campus partners and remain responsible for staffing and managing the day-to-day operations of our campus bookstores. We also work closely with our campus partners to ensure that each campus store maintains unique aspects of in-store merchandising, including localized product assortments and specific styles and designs that reflect each campus’s brand. We leverage Fanatics’ e-commerce technology and expertise for the operational management of the emblematic merchandise and gift sections of our campus store websites. FLC manages in-store assortment planning and merchandising of emblematic apparel, headwear, and gift products for our partner campus stores. </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 December 2020, Fanatics, Inc. and Lids Holdings, Inc. jointly made a strategic equity investment in BNED. On April 4, 2021, as contemplated by the merchandising partnership agreement, we closed on the sale of our logo and emblematic general merchandise inventory to FLC. As the logo and emblematic general merchandise sales are fulfilled by FLC and Fanatics, we </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%">recognize commission revenue earned for these sales on a net basis. For additional information, 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 II - Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data - Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Merchandise Inventories </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%"> Note 6. Equity and Earnings Per Share</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-bottom:5pt;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><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> During Fiscal 2021 and the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2020, our business was significantly negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in an unprecedented material decline in revenue. Despite the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, the pandemic remains highly volatile and continues to evolve. We cannot accurately predict the duration or extent of the impact of COVID-19 on enrollments, university budgets, athletics and other areas that directly affect our business operations</span><span style="color:#212529;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;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%"> Although most schools expect to return to a traditional on-campus environment for learning in the upcoming Fall semester, as well as host traditional on campus sporting activities, there is still uncertainty about the duration and extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue to assess our operations and will continue to consider the guidance of local governments to determine when our operations can begin returning to normal levels of business. Please see our </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 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> for further discussion. 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 II - Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data - Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Other Long-Lived Assets </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">related to the impairment loss (non-cash) recognized during Fiscal 2021.</span>
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