Best Buy Co Inc vs Fastly Inc — how do they compare? Best Buy Co Inc trades at $84.02 (market cap $17.55B), while Fastly Inc trades at $28.5 (market cap $4.58B). The key difference: Best Buy Co Inc is far larger — about 3.8× Fastly Inc's market cap, and Best Buy Co Inc pays a 4.61% dividend while Fastly Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BBY | FSLY | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $17.55B | $4.58B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Technology |
52-Week High | $90.17 | $33.50 |
52-Week Low | $55.52 | $6.85 |
Enterprise Value | $19.93B | $4.65B |
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 →Fastly operates a content delivery network, which is necessary for entities to provide faster and more reliable online content. Fastly's strategy differs from traditional CDNs, which focused on locating servers in as many locations as possible to store copies of files that consumers most use. Fastly has far fewer sites than traditional CDNs, but it houses servers in the most network-dense data centers. Instead of simply storing static content, it allows its customers to program on its platform, enabling edge computing and better service of the more dynamic content that was traditionally not well served by CDNs. Fastly gears its service to the largest, most sophisticated enterprises rather than small companies and generated about two thirds of its revenue in the United States in 2020.
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