Best Buy Co Inc vs Rockwell Automation — how do they compare? Best Buy Co Inc trades at $84.02 (market cap $17.55B), while Rockwell Automation trades at $450 (market cap $49.64B). The key difference: Rockwell Automation is far larger — about 2.8× Best Buy Co Inc's market cap, and Best Buy Co Inc pays the higher dividend (4.61%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BBY | ROK | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $17.55B | $49.64B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Industrials |
52-Week High | $90.17 | $495.08 |
52-Week Low | $55.52 | $333.75 |
Enterprise Value | $19.93B | $52.77B |
Dividend Yield | 4.61% | 1.23% |
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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 →Rockwell Automation is a pure-play automation competitor that is the successor entity to Rockwell International, which spun off its former Rockwell Collins avionics segment in 2001. As of fiscal 2021, the firm operates through three segments--intelligent devices, software and control, and lifecycle services. Intelligent devices contains its drives, sensors, and industrial components, software and control contains its information and network and security software, while lifecycle services contains its consulting and maintenance services as well as its Sensia JV with Schlumberger.
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