Best Buy Co Inc vs Charter Communications Inc — how do they compare? Best Buy Co Inc trades at $83.5 (market cap $17.55B), while Charter Communications Inc trades at $156.89 (market cap $18.81B). The key difference: Best Buy Co Inc and Charter Communications Inc are close in size by market cap, and Best Buy Co Inc pays a 4.61% dividend while Charter Communications Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BBY | CHTR | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $17.55B | $18.81B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Media |
52-Week High | $90.17 | $282.74 |
52-Week Low | $55.52 | $123.31 |
Enterprise Value | $19.93B | $115.01B |
Dividend Yield | 4.61% | — |
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With $51.8 billion in fiscal 2022 sales, Best Buy is the largest pure-play consumer electronics retailer in the U.S., with roughly 10.6% share of the aggregate market and north of 40% share of offline sales, per our calculations, CTA industry, and Euromonitor data. The firm generates the bulk of its sales in-store, with mobile phones and tablets, computers, and appliances representing its three largest categories. Recent investments in e-commerce fulfillment, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have seen the U.S. e-commerce channel roughly double from prepandemic levels, with management estimating that it will represent a mid-30% proportion of sales moving forward.
Read more on BBY →Charter is the product of the 2016 merger of three cable companies, each with a decades-long history in the business: Legacy Charter, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks. The firm now holds networks capable of providing television, internet access, and phone services to roughly 54 million U.S. homes and businesses, around 40% of the country. Across this footprint, Charter serves 29 million residential and 2 million commercial customer accounts under the Spectrum brand, making it the second-largest U.S. cable company behind Comcast. The firm also owns, in whole or in part, sports and news networks, including Spectrum SportsNet (long-term local rights to Los Angeles Lakers games), SportsNet LA (Los Angeles Dodgers), SportsNet New York (New York Mets), and Spectrum News NY1.
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