NYSE: BBY · Specialty Retail
Over the past week, Best Buy (BBY) pulled in about 40 mentions across Reddit, X and news, and the read is an Adanos Sell. The crowd averages 24% bullish across the tracked sources. Wall Street is more cautious, with 4 of 25 analysts rating BBY a buy.
There is little buzz around BBY this week and broad agreement on direction, which is why it reads as a Sell.
Wall Street’s 16% buy share sits next to a crowd that ranges from News at 18% to X at 30%. No other tracker puts the two side by side.
25 analysts have weighed in: a Hold consensus: 4 buy calls against 2 sell, with an average 12-month price target of $86.95.
The Adanos signal blends each source’s bullish ratio, source breadth, buzz intensity and 3-day momentum. This week bullish sits just below the neutral line, momentum is mixed and the 2 sources broadly agree, so the read is a Sell.
The crowd runs 8 points hotter than the 16% analyst buy share, retail is ahead of the Street here. The split is inside the crowd: X reads 30% bullish while News sits at 18%, a 12-point spread that single-source trackers miss.
Over the 30-day window, Best Buy (BBY) buzz held subdued around 31.3 while the price drifted down 3.2% across the period. The chart tracks how social and news attention moved against end-of-day price. Average daily trading volume across the displayed trading days is 3.4M shares. Updated Oct 10, 2026. Over the last 7 trading days, BBY lost 0.8%. Buzz activity in the recent week averaged 33.5 and was variable, swinging between 23.1 and 50.6. Recent volume is in line with the 30-day average, reflecting steady institutional and retail participation. Daily crowd sentiment leaned bullish on 16 of the 19 days with directional mentions, shown as the green, grey and red breakdown bars below the chart.
Signal metrics use the latest 7 days; contributor and breadth context uses the 30-day chart window.
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| Adanos signal | Sell |
|---|---|
| Analyst consensus | Hold (4 / 19 / 2) |
| Crowd bullish (7d) | 24% |
| Avg price target | $86.95 |
| Most bullish source | X, 30% |
| Most bearish source | News, 18% |
| Sentiment spread | 12 pts |
| Mentions (7d) | 40 |
| Market cap | $18.54B |
| P/E · Forward P/E | 14.7 · 13.6 |
| EPS · Beta | $6.01 · 1.3 |
| Revenue (TTM) | $42.2B · 3% margin |
| Industry | Specialty Retail |
Based on aggregated sentiment from X and News sources, Best Buy (BBY) currently carries an Adanos sell signal with 93/100 conviction. The current cross-source average reads 24% bullish across 2 active sources. Those sources contribute 40 tracked mentions over the last 7 days. This is a sentiment-based reading, not financial advice.
The crowd reads bearish on Best Buy (BBY), averaging 24% bullish across 2 tracked sources over the last 7 days. The two ends of the range are X at 30% bullish and News at 18%, a 12-point spread. On the professional side, 4 of 25 analysts rate BBY a buy.
Of the 25 analysts covering Best Buy (BBY), 4 rate it a buy, 19 a hold and 2 a sell, for a hold consensus. The average price target is $86.95. The crowd is the more bullish of the two, averaging 24%.
Best Buy (BBY)'s cross-source average is bearish at 24% bullish. All 2 tracked sources lean bearish. X reads 30% bullish and news coverage is the most negative at 18% bullish. The combined signal points to broad sell-side pressure with 93/100 conviction.
The cross-source average is bearish for Best Buy (BBY) at 24% bullish. All 2 tracked sources lean bearish. The most bearish reading is news at 18% bullish. 3-day activity momentum is falling on News, while x activity is rising. The sell signal carries 93/100 conviction.
X is the dominant discussion channel with 23 mentions (57% of total volume). News contributes 17 mentions. The cross-source average is bearish at 24% bullish, while x is the only source with rising 3-day activity. All 2 tracked sources lean bearish.
The Adanos signal blends bullish ratio, buzz score, source breadth and 3-day activity momentum into a single buy/sell reading. BBY's sell signal at 93/100 conviction reflects a bearish cross-source average at 24% bullish. All 2 tracked sources lean bearish. It is a research shortcut, not financial advice.
The BBY sentiment page is regenerated from the latest 7-day tracking window at each build. Data reflects the most recent Reddit posts, tweets and news articles available in the current publishing cycle.
Peers are ranked first by matching the Sell signal, then by the closest bullish ratio. Discussion activity breaks any remaining ties.
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