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Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBY)

This company has been moved to the archive! The financial data has not been updated since September 30, 2022.

Balance Sheet: Assets
Quarterly Data

The balance sheet provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company assets as well as an indication of cash flows that may come from receivables and inventories.

Assets are resources controlled by the company as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the entity.

Assets: Selected Items

Current Assets: Selected Items

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., consolidated balance sheet: assets (quarterly data)

US$ in thousands

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Aug 27, 2022 May 28, 2022 Feb 26, 2022 Nov 27, 2021 Aug 28, 2021 May 29, 2021 Feb 27, 2021 Nov 28, 2020 Aug 29, 2020 May 30, 2020 Feb 29, 2020 Nov 30, 2019 Aug 31, 2019 Jun 1, 2019 Mar 2, 2019 Dec 1, 2018 Sep 1, 2018 Jun 2, 2018 Mar 3, 2018 Nov 25, 2017 Aug 26, 2017 May 27, 2017 Feb 25, 2017 Nov 26, 2016 Aug 27, 2016 May 28, 2016
Cash and cash equivalents 135,270 107,543 439,496 509,054 970,592 1,097,267 1,352,984 1,462,612 1,441,845 1,120,974 1,000,340 900,077 983,847 700,389 508,971 762,513 869,297 678,646 346,140 453,103 464,062 469,320 488,329 473,006 577,844 544,269
Short-term investment securities — — — — 29,999 29,997 — — — 29,485 385,642 — — 201,664 485,799 238,267 205,916 148,313 378,039 — — — — — — 22,495
Accounts receivable — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Merchandise inventories 1,576,270 1,759,586 1,725,410 1,911,859 1,590,669 1,563,602 1,671,909 1,780,891 2,052,041 2,240,449 2,093,869 2,543,247 2,334,936 2,540,852 2,618,922 3,005,548 2,813,588 2,646,263 2,730,874 3,199,669 2,878,638 2,962,936 2,905,660 3,268,569 2,903,647 2,923,043
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 192,615 190,179 198,248 526,540 510,109 515,993 595,152 196,487 249,672 354,796 248,342 361,116 301,368 254,187 296,280 474,285 387,343 483,159 516,025 287,719 187,664 217,917 416,755 528,547 447,013 408,224
Assets held-for-sale — — — — — — — 524,551 — 70,530 98,092 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Current assets 1,904,155 2,057,308 2,363,154 2,947,453 3,101,369 3,206,859 3,620,045 3,964,541 3,743,558 3,816,234 3,826,285 3,804,440 3,620,151 3,697,092 3,909,972 4,480,613 4,276,144 3,956,381 3,971,078 3,940,491 3,530,364 3,650,173 3,810,744 4,270,122 3,928,504 3,898,031
Long-term investment securities 20,228 18,983 19,212 19,237 19,459 19,458 19,545 19,847 19,893 19,928 20,380 20,103 20,520 20,677 20,010 19,817 19,742 19,957 19,517 107,709 99,157 96,121 89,592 86,404 82,740 78,349
Property and equipment, net 1,121,203 1,119,247 1,027,387 923,977 918,462 929,335 918,418 905,251 1,295,967 1,362,110 1,430,604 1,749,543 1,772,667 1,822,679 1,853,091 1,866,086 1,881,957 1,893,230 1,909,289 1,840,959 1,834,470 1,817,594 1,837,129 1,769,061 1,739,952 1,723,429
Operating lease assets 1,469,076 1,597,461 1,562,857 1,603,536 1,668,621 1,584,144 1,587,101 1,615,969 1,913,719 1,903,380 2,006,966 1,947,008 2,012,681 1,990,963 — — — — — — — — — — — —
Goodwill — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 391,052 716,283 716,283 716,283 716,283 716,283 707,127 707,643 697,085 709,400 520,226 487,169
Other assets 151,977 156,103 157,962 162,435 359,612 313,493 311,821 486,002 465,963 592,695 506,280 490,894 490,359 456,784 396,416 453,945 425,737 427,895 424,639 583,436 611,541 604,270 411,479 397,814 397,953 391,999
Noncurrent assets 2,762,484 2,891,794 2,767,418 2,709,185 2,966,154 2,846,430 2,836,885 3,027,069 3,695,542 3,878,113 3,964,230 4,207,548 4,296,227 4,291,103 2,660,569 3,056,131 3,043,719 3,057,365 3,069,728 3,248,387 3,252,295 3,225,628 3,035,285 2,962,679 2,740,871 2,680,946
Total assets 4,666,639 4,949,102 5,130,572 5,656,638 6,067,523 6,053,289 6,456,930 6,991,610 7,439,100 7,694,347 7,790,515 8,011,988 7,916,378 7,988,195 6,570,541 7,536,744 7,319,863 7,013,746 7,040,806 7,188,878 6,782,659 6,875,801 6,846,029 7,232,801 6,669,375 6,578,977

Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-08-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-05-28), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-02-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-11-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-08-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-05-29), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-02-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-11-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-08-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-05-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-02-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-11-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-08-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-06-01), 10-K (reporting date: 2019-03-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-12-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-09-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-06-02), 10-K (reporting date: 2018-03-03), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-11-25), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-08-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-05-27), 10-K (reporting date: 2017-02-25), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-11-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-08-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-05-28).


The asset profile reflects a significant contraction in the overall financial position, with total assets peaking at approximately 8.01 billion USD in November 2019 before declining to 4.67 billion USD by August 2022. This downward trajectory indicates a substantial reduction in the company's resource base over the latter half of the analyzed period.

Liquidity and Cash Position
Cash and cash equivalents exhibited high volatility, reaching a peak of 1.46 billion USD in November 2020. However, a severe depletion followed, with cash reserves falling to 135.3 million USD by August 2022. This trend is further compounded by the disappearance of short-term investment securities, which were prominent between 2018 and 2020 but became negligible by 2022, signaling a critical erosion of liquid assets.
Inventory and Current Assets
Merchandise inventories showed a consistent long-term decline, moving from a high of 3.27 billion USD in November 2016 to 1.58 billion USD in August 2022. This reduction in inventory, combined with a decrease in prepaid expenses and other current assets, contributed to a broader contraction of total current assets, which fell from a peak of 4.48 billion USD in December 2018 to 1.90 billion USD in August 2022.
Non-current Asset Transformations
Property and equipment, net, remained relatively stable near 1.8 billion USD until 2020, after which a sharp decline occurred, ending at 1.12 billion USD in August 2022. A significant accounting shift is observed in June 2019 with the introduction of operating lease assets, which initially appeared at 1.99 billion USD and gradually decreased to 1.47 billion USD. Furthermore, goodwill was completely eliminated from the balance sheet after March 2019, indicating full impairment of previously recognized intangible assets.
Overall Asset Base Stability
The total asset base transitioned from a period of relative growth and stability between 2016 and 2019 to a period of sustained decline from 2020 through 2022. The combination of dwindling cash reserves, reduced inventory levels, and the write-down of fixed assets and goodwill reflects a systemic reduction in the company's operational scale and financial capacity.

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