BNED Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Barnes & Noble Education | NYSE:BNED)

Barnes & Noble Education Inc is a contract operator of physical and virtual bookstores for college and university campuses and K-12 institutions across the United States. The company is also a textbook wholesaler and inventory management hardware and software provider. It offers course materials through physical and online bookstores, including new and used print textbooks, rental options, digital textbooks, and publisher-hosted digital courseware. Products are also offered directly to students through Textbooks.com. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the sale of products through its bookstore locations, including virtual bookstores, and the bookstore affiliated e-commerce websites.

Barnes & Noble Education trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BNED.

As of January 8, 2026, BNED stock price climbed to $8.32 with 305,410 million shares trading.

BNED has a beta of 1.89, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. BNED has a correlation of 0.25 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BNED has a market cap of $283.33 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Barnes & Noble Education reported $278 million in Revenue and -$2.91 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $34 million and missed earnings estimates by -$2.10.

In the last 3 years, BNED traded as high as $252.00 and as low as $5.90.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BNED belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VXF, IWN, VTWO.

BNED has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -18.7% while the SPY ETF gained +18.4%. BNED has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -11.7% and -12.3%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.3% and -0.1%, respectively.

BNED support price is $7.80 and resistance is $8.38 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BNED shares will trade within this expected range on the day.