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Are Investors Undervaluing Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) Right Now?

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The proven Zacks Rank system focuses on earnings estimates and estimate revisions to find winning stocks. Nevertheless, we know that our readers all have their own perspectives, so we are always looking at the latest trends in value, growth, and momentum to find strong picks.

Of these, perhaps no stock market trend is more popular than value investing, which is a strategy that has proven to be successful in all sorts of market environments. Value investors use fundamental analysis and traditional valuation metrics to find stocks that they believe are being undervalued by the market at large.

On top of the Zacks Rank, investors can also look at our innovative Style Scores system to find stocks with specific traits. For example, value investors will want to focus on the "Value" category. Stocks with high Zacks Ranks and "A" grades for Value will be some of the highest-quality value stocks on the market today.

One stock to keep an eye on is Bed Bath & Beyond . BBBY is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy), as well as a Value grade of A. The stock is trading with P/E ratio of 9.53 right now. For comparison, its industry sports an average P/E of 14.07. Over the past year, BBBY's Forward P/E has been as high as 9.77 and as low as 6.29, with a median of 8.08.

Value investors also frequently use the P/S ratio. This metric is found by dividing a stock's price with the company's revenue. This is a prefered metric because revenue can't really be manipulated, so sales are often a truer performance indicator. BBBY has a P/S ratio of 0.17. This compares to its industry's average P/S of 0.38.

Value investors will likely look at more than just these metrics, but the above data helps show that Bed Bath & Beyond is likely undervalued currently. And when considering the strength of its earnings outlook, BBBY sticks out at as one of the market's strongest value stocks.

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