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Each card values Barnes & Noble Education a different way, shown at our starting inputs. Pick one to see and change how it works.
Set your assumptions
Barnes & Noble Education on earnings: earnings per share grow for a few years, then the stock trades at a normal price-to-earnings multiple.
Years to project
Growth of earnings per share
Earnings per share; not enough history; starts at 5%
Exit P/E
Starts at its industry's median P/E
Your desired return
Margin of safety
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Your buy price
The expected return is measured from it; starts at today's price
How it's worked out
Today's earnings per share
Diluted, last twelve months, as filed
$0.66
Earnings in 2031
Grows 5.0% a year for 5 years
$0.84
Price in 2031
$0.84 × 17.5 P/E
$14.74
Worth today
÷ 1.10^5: your 10% a year, taken back out
$9.15
Fair value
The most you can pay and still earn 10% a year
$9.15
Buy below
Fair value minus your 25% margin of safety
$6.86
Paying $13.21 instead gives 2.2% a year. Every rule is on the methodology page.
Outcome
What your assumptions give, and the path from today's price.
Fair value
$9.15
Expected return
2.2% a year
Future price, 2031
$14.74
Buy below
$6.86
Price 44% above fair valuePrice $13.21, at your 10% return
Projection
Solid blue: the price at each year end. Dashed blue: from today's price to the 2031 price. Green: from the fair value, rising at your 10% a year to the same end point; buy at or below it and you earn at least that. Every rule is on the methodology page. A model, not a forecast or advice.
Build your own intrinsic value for Barnes & Noble Education Inc. Start from three cases based on the company's own filings, then change any number to match your view.
Conservative
$14.60
11% above the priceof $13.21
Buy below $10.95 for a 25% safety margin
Your assumptions
Base
$17.83
35% above the priceof $13.21
Buy below $13.38 for a 25% safety margin
Your assumptions
Optimistic
$21.34
62% above the priceof $13.21
Buy below $16.01 for a 25% safety margin
Your assumptions
Where today's price sits
Today's price falls outside the modelled range.
Verdict
Today's price sits below all three scenarios. That reading is only as reliable as the growth rates entered.
Base free cash flow
$49M
Trailing twelve months
Historical FCF CAGR
-7.5%
Across 6 reported periods
Market implies
-1.2%
Growth needed at 8% WACC
Terminal value share
59%
Of the base case valuation
Growth needed to justify today's price
At a 8.0% discount rate, today's price already assumes -1.2% annual free cash flow growth for ten years. Your base case assumes 2.0%, so you are forecasting more growth than the price requires.
Curve holds terminal growth at 2.5%, years 6 to 10 at half the first-stage rate, and applies no safety margin.
Free cash flow history
The most recent period is the base every projection starts from. Compounded, that history is -7.5% a year.
Barnes & Noble Education (BNED) intrinsic value and fair value
The calculator grows one of Barnes & Noble Education's per-share figures (earnings, free cash flow, revenue, book value or dividends) for a few years, puts an exit multiple on it, and discounts the result back at the yearly return you want. The answers below use its starting inputs for BNED; this is analysis, not investment advice.
Frequently asked
What is Barnes & Noble Education's (BNED) intrinsic value?+
With Intrinsiqq's starting inputs, Barnes & Noble Education's fair value is about $9.15 a share, based on its earnings per share. That assumes earnings per share of $0.66 grows about 5.0% a year for 5 years, the stock then trades at 17.5 times earnings, and you want a 10.0% yearly return. On its other figures: free cash flow $20.08, revenue $15.38. Every input can be changed on the page; the result is a model, not a forecast.
Is Barnes & Noble Education overvalued?+
At $13.21, the price is 44% above that fair value of $9.15, and buying at today's price would return about 2.2% a year if those inputs hold. Whether that is cheap or dear depends on whether you believe the growth and the exit multiple, which is what the calculator lets you test. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.
What growth does the Barnes & Noble Education valuation assume?+
Earnings per share grows about 5.0% a year to start, a default, because there is too little history. The exit multiple starts at its industry's median.
What is a good margin of safety for Barnes & Noble Education?+
A margin of safety is the cushion you want below the fair value before buying, in case the inputs are wrong. The calculator uses 25%, which puts the buy-below price at $6.86. Less predictable businesses deserve a wider cushion, or a higher desired return.
SourceFair value computed from the 10-Q filed 3 Sept 2026, covering the period ending 1 Aug 2026, as reported to the SEC. Data last refreshed 28 Sept 2026. How this is calculated.
Price from market data, last close as of 4 Nov 2026. Fiscal year ends May.
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