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Best Buy

American multinational consumer electronics retailer
Organization business Q533415
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 10 annual filings
Revenue
$41.69B
▲ 0.4% YoY FY2026
Net Income
$1.07B
▲ 15.3% YoY FY2026
Assets
$14.67B
▼ 0.8% YoY FY2026
EPS (diluted)
$5.04
▲ 17.8% YoY FY2026
$0.00$14.23B$28.47B$42.70B$56.94B FY2017: $39.40B · NI $1.23B (3.1% margin)FY2018: $42.15B · NI $1.00B (2.4% margin)FY2019: $42.88B · NI $1.46B (3.4% margin)FY2020: $43.64B · NI $1.54B (3.5% margin)FY2021: $47.26B · NI $1.80B (3.8% margin)FY2022: $51.76B · NI $2.45B (4.7% margin)FY2023: $46.30B · NI $1.42B (3.1% margin)FY2024: $43.45B · NI $1.24B (2.9% margin)FY2025: $41.53B · NI $927.00M (2.2% margin)FY2026: $41.69B · NI $1.07B (2.6% margin) '17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2026-01-31 · accession 0000764478-26-000009

Summary

Best Buy is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,150 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: enterprise[4], public company[5], retail chain[6]
  • Founder: Richard M. Schulze[7]
  • Headquarters location: Richfield[8]
  • Chief executive officer: Hubert Joly[9]
  • Child organization or unit: Geek Squad[10], Magnolia Audio Visual[11]
  • Part of: S&P 500[12]
  • Commons category: Best Buy[13]
  • Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange[14]
  • Industry: retail[15]
  • Inception: August 22, 1966[16]
  • Official website: https://www.bestbuy.com/[17], https://www.bestbuy.ca[18], https://www.pacificsales.com[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Best Buy[20]
  • Described at URL: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/best-buy-co-inc-history/[21]
  • Product or material produced: consumer electronics[22]
  • Legal form: Business Corporation[23]
  • Native label: Best Buy[24]
  • Owner of: Future Shop[25], Geek Squad[26], Insignia[27], Dynex[28]
  • Different from: mybest[29]
  • Board member: J. Patrick Doyle[30], Corie Barry[31], Lisa Caputo[32], David Kenny[33], Mario Marte[34], Karen McLoughlin[35], Tommy Millner[36], Claudia Munce[37], Richelle Parham[38], Steve Rendle[39], Eugene Woods[40]
  • MAC Address Block Large ID: 5850E6[41]
  • Social media followers: 1,138,372[42], 917,596[43], 1,217,178[44]
  • Location information URL: https://stores.bestbuy.com/[45], https://stores.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/index.html[46]

Why It Matters

Best Buy has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

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References

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 9257-AC03-791D-C5A0-1309
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 9257-AC03-791D-C5A0-1309, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  2. 11w ago · NMaia · 2026-07-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Total revenue → {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+40023000000'}, {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+45015000000'}, {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+49694000000'} +11
    Website → —
    Legal form → Business Corporation
    Consumer rights wiki article id → 285
    + 35 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Consumer rights wiki article id: 285, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/297028544|Best Buy (#297028544)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8142|‎Consumer Righ"
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