Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc
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Price history
Chart
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52-week range: 25.50 $ to 74.20 $ · Last price: 24.40 $ (As of: September 18, 2026)
Key figures
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Basics
Performance
Technical Indicators
Calculated from the price history · as of 09/18/2026
Valuation
Profitability
Balance Sheet & Safety
Growth
Dividend
Quality & Screener
Comparison
Industry comparison
The stock alongside the largest companies in the same group. The median row is the middle value of the companies shown above — not of the whole industry.
Industry: Specialty Retail
| Company | Market cap ($B) | P/E | EV/EBITDA | Gross Margin % | EBIT Margin % | Sales Growth (Year) % | Perf. 1Y % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc BBW | 0.3 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 54.7 | 9.6 | 6.7 | -63.7 |
| Williams-Sonoma Inc WSM | 26.5 | 25.0 | 15.6 | 45.7 | 16.2 | 1.2 | 12.9 |
| Ulta Beauty Inc ULTA | 23.5 | 20.5 | 13.3 | 43.1 | 14.2 | 9.7 | 2.8 |
| Caseys General Stores Inc CASY | 22.1 | 32.7 | 16.3 | 23.8 | 5.4 | 10.2 | 10.3 |
| Best Buy Co. Inc BBY | 19.6 | 18.2 | 8.4 | 22.6 | 4.0 | 0.4 | 35.4 |
| Tractor Supply Company TSCO | 16.9 | 16.2 | 12.9 | 36.5 | 6.5 | 4.3 | -43.1 |
| Five Below Inc FIVE | 12.9 | 31.9 | 14.8 | 37.6 | 12.0 | 22.9 | 59.4 |
| Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc DKS | 10.8 | 11.7 | 10.2 | 33.1 | 10.6 | 28.1 | -42.9 |
| GameStop Corp. GME | 10.1 | 16.5 | 19.9 | 37.9 | 16.6 | -5.1 | -12.8 |
| Median of companies shown | 16.9 | 18.2 | 13.3 | 37.6 | 10.6 | 6.7 | 2.8 |
Based on the most recently reported figures. Only stocks from the same trading venue are lined up, so the market caps are counted in one currency. Compare in a chart →
Fiscal years
Annual Figures
Fiscal years from the audited annual reports, oldest first. EBIT is the operating profit before interest and taxes; total assets are everything the company owns.
Revenue, operating income and net income per fiscal year $M
Revenue Operating income Net income
| Fiscal Year | Revenue ($M) | EBIT ($M) | Net Income ($M) | EPS ($) | Operating Cash Flow ($M) | Equity ($M) | Total Assets ($M) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 364 | 5 | 1 | 0.09 | 16 | 99 | 200 |
| 2018 | 358 | 14 | 8 | 0.50 | 21 | 107 | 198 |
| 2019 | 337 | -18 | -18 | -1.23 | 10 | 94 | 172 |
| 2020 | 339 | -12 | 0 | 0.02 | 22 | 89 | 297 |
| 2021 | 255 | -35 | -25 | -1.65 | 13 | 67 | 261 |
| 2022 | 412 | 38 | 47 | 2.93 | 28 | 94 | 269 |
| 2023 | 468 | 49 | 48 | 3.15 | 47 | 119 | 281 |
| 2024 | 486 | 65 | 53 | 3.65 | 64 | 130 | 272 |
| 2025 | 496 | 66 | 52 | 3.80 | 47 | 139 | 290 |
| 2026 | 530 | 65 | 52 | 3.99 | 65 | 155 | 345 |
Quarters
Quarterly Figures
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Revenue & Profit
Cash Flow
Balance Sheet
Margins
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| Quarter | EPS (Earnings Per Share) | EPS YoY (%) | Sales ($M) | Sales YoY (%) | Net Margin (%) | OCF ($M) | FCF ($M) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024: Q4 | 0.73 | 37.70 | 119 | 11.00 | 8.30 | 15 | 11 |
| 2025: Q1 | 1.59 | 18.70 | 150 | 0.80 | 14.40 | 20 | 10 |
| 2025: Q2 | 1.17 | 42.70 | 128 | 11.90 | 11.90 | 28 | 25 |
| 2025: Q3 | 0.94 | 46.90 | 124 | 11.10 | 10.00 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025: Q4 | 0.62 | -15.10 | 123 | 2.70 | 6.60 | 8 | 2 |
| 2026: Q1 | 1.26 | -20.80 | 155 | 2.70 | 10.60 | 25 | 12 |
| 2026: Q2 | 1.45 | 23.90 | 125 | -2.40 | 14.60 | 21 | 14 |
| 2026: Q3 | 0.70 | -25.50 | 115 | -7.20 | 7.60 | – | – |
What Do These Terms Mean?
- EPS (Earnings Per Share):
- Quarterly profit divided by the total share count — how much of the profit works out to a single share.
- YoY (Year over Year):
- Change versus the same quarter a year ago — this is how you compare without seasonal distortion (e.g. the holiday shopping season).
- Sales:
- All revenue for the quarter, before any costs are deducted — the top line of the income statement.
- Net Margin:
- What percentage of sales is left over as profit in the end. Negative means the company is posting a loss.
- OCF (Operating Cash Flow):
- The cash that actually flows into the till from the core business during the quarter — harder to dress up than book profit.
- FCF (Free Cash Flow):
- Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures — the money that's genuinely free to use, say for paying down debt, buybacks, or dividends.
Screening
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Quality & Balance Sheet
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Outlook
Analysts & Price Target
Combined picture of the price targets and recommendations of every analyst covering the stock. Price targets are expectations for the next 12 months, not promises — and they often follow the price rather than predict it.
Distribution of Recommendations
Estimates by Fiscal Year
| Fiscal Year | EPS Estimate ($) | EPS Range ($) | Revenue Estimate ($M) | Expected Growth | Analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/31/2027 | 3.62 | 3.39 – 3.86 | 510 | -9.4% | 4 |
| 01/31/2028 | 3.79 | 3.50 – 3.95 | 530 | 4.8% | 3 |
Average of the analyst estimates for the coming fiscal years. The range shows how far the most optimistic and the most cautious estimate sit apart — the wider it is, the less certain the expectation.
Valuation
What is priced in?
Instead of guessing what the stock is worth, we turn the question around: what free cash flow growth has to happen for today’s market value to add up? The assumptions behind it can be moved.
Today’s market value implies roughly 1.3% growth in free cash flow per year over ten years (assumptions: discount rate 10.0%, terminal growth 2.5%).
| Free cash flow (last twelve months) | $24.5M |
|---|---|
| Market cap | $307.0M |
| Free cash flow in year ten | $27.9M |
| Terminal value as a share of market value | 47.8% |
For comparison: over the past five years free cash flow grew by 36.5% per year.
It shows which assumption is built into today’s price, not whether that assumption will hold. Every assumption can be changed with the sliders; the figures move with them.
A simplified model calculation — not a forecast and not a recommendation.
AI classification
AI Rating
Build-A-Bear verkauft keine KI, sondern setzt sie nach eigener Darstellung im Geschäftsbericht (10-K) als internes Werkzeug ein — in digitalem Marketing, Kundenansprache, Sortimentssteuerung und Finanzwesen —, hat dafür sogar einen eigenen Ausschuss für Datenschutz, Datenverwaltung und künstliche Intelligenz eingerichtet und nennt den eigenen KI-Einsatz zugleich als Risiko; ein KI-Produkt oder KI-Umsatz kommt in keinem der geprüften Berichte vor.
View the full file — quotes, sources, reviewed filings
„Like many businesses, we incorporate, and expect to continue to incorporate, machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence (“AI”) into various aspects of our business, including digital marketing, customer engagement, merchandising, finance and other operational and administrative activities."
Wie viele Unternehmen setzen wir maschinelles Lernen und andere Formen künstlicher Intelligenz („KI“) in verschiedenen Bereichen unseres Geschäfts ein und wollen das auch weiterhin tun — unter anderem im digitalen Marketing, in der Kundenansprache, im Sortiment, im Finanzwesen und in weiteren betrieblichen und verwaltenden Tätigkeiten.
10-K · 2026-04-16 · View SEC filing
„Ongoing technological advancements may allow us to expand the use of AI, including generative AI, into these and other key operational and/or administrative aspects of our business."
Der fortlaufende technische Fortschritt könnte es uns erlauben, den Einsatz von KI — auch von erzeugender KI — auf diese und weitere zentrale betriebliche und verwaltende Bereiche unseres Geschäfts auszuweiten.
10-K · 2026-04-16 · View SEC filing
„Similarly, our Privacy, Data Governance, and Artificial Intelligence Committee, under the guidance of our Chief Privacy Officer, oversees our privacy and data governance strategies."
Ebenso überwacht unser Ausschuss für Datenschutz, Datenverwaltung und künstliche Intelligenz unter Leitung unseres Datenschutzchefs unsere Strategien für Datenschutz und Datenverwaltung.
10-K · 2026-04-16 · View SEC filing
„our use of artificial intelligence technologies presents operational, reputational, data security and legal risks that could adversely affect our business and financial performance, and any failure to effectively leverage artificial technologies in our business could negatively impact our customer engagement and competitive position"
unser Einsatz von Techniken der künstlichen Intelligenz bringt betriebliche, rufschädigende, datensicherheitsbezogene und rechtliche Risiken mit sich, die unser Geschäft und unsere Finanzlage beeinträchtigen könnten; gelingt es uns umgekehrt nicht, diese Techniken wirksam zu nutzen, könnte das unsere Kundenbindung und unsere Wettbewerbsstellung schwächen
10-Q · 2026-09-10 · View SEC filing
Filings Reviewed: 10-Q 2026-09-10 · 10-Q 2026-06-11 · 10-K/A 2026-04-17 · 10-K 2026-04-16 · 10-Q 2025-12-11 · 10-Q 2025-09-11 · 10-K 2025-04-17
Rated on September 11, 2026 · How the Rating Is Built
Growth
Growth Score
Ten checks against the annual reports — each one passed counts a point.
- Revenue grows by more than 15% a year over three years 4.2%
- More than 10% revenue growth is expected for the coming year -77.7%
- Share count grows by less than 3% a year -5.0%
- Revenue growth plus cash-flow margin add up to at least 40 ("Rule of 40") 14.2%
- Gross margin at 40% or higher and without meaningful erosion 55.8%
- Goodwill from acquisitions does not grow faster than revenue 0.0%
- Net debt below twice EBITDA 1.3 x EBITDA
- Operating cash flow covers the profits of the last three years 20 m
- Return on capital at 15% or higher, or up versus two years ago 25.4%
- Insiders hold at least 10% or are net buyers 5.5%
A criterion without figures counts neither as passed nor as failed; a score is only produced from 7 judgeable criteria upwards. Source: fundamental data. All ten criteria in detail
Quality check
AAQS
4/10The AAQS (AlleAktien Quality Score) checks 10 quality criteria on growth, profitability, and balance-sheet strength — per the methodology developed and published by AlleAktien, calculated by us from our own fundamental data. A stock counts as a quality stock from 9 out of 10 points. Where a company has a shorter listing history, we calculate over the fiscal years available (at least five).
- Sales growth 10Y > 5% 4.3%
- Exp. sales growth 3Y > 5% 0.0%
- EBIT growth 10Y > 5% 32.0%
- Exp. EBIT growth 3Y > 5% -2.5%
- Net debt < 4x EBIT 1.6x
- EBIT positive, 10Y straight 7
- Max. EBIT decline < 50% 100.0%
- Return on equity > 15% 33.7%
- ROCE > 15% 25.4%
- Expected return > 10% 10.0%
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Source: fundamental data
Insiders
Insider Transactions
Reportable transactions by officers and major shareholders from SEC Form 4 filings. "Other" includes things like stock grants and option exercises without a buy/sell character.
| Date | Person | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2026 | John Sharon Price | Director | Sell | 6,818 | 40.03 | 272,949 |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Fundler Yevgeny | Chief Legal Officer &Secretary | Other | 156 | 34.28 | 5,348 |
The company
About the Company
Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. operates as a mall-based, experiential specialty retailer for children in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, North America, and Europe. It operates through three segments: Direct-to-Consumer, Commercial, and International Franchising. The company offers various styles of plush products to be stuffed, pre-stuffed plush products, and sounds and scents that can be added to the stuffed animals, as well as range of clothing, shoes and accessories, and other toy and novelty items. It operates its stores under the Build-A-Bear Workshop brand name; and sells its products through its e-commerce sites and third-party marketplace sites. Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.
- Employees
- 1,200
- Headquarters
- Saint Louis, MO
- Address
- 415 South 18th Street, 63103 Saint Louis, United States
- Phone
- 314 423 8000
- Website
- buildabear.com
- IPO Date
- 10/28/2004
- ISIN
- US1200761047
Management
| Name | Title | Birth Year |
|---|---|---|
| J. Christopher Hurt | CEO & Director | 1966 |
| Maxine K. Clark | Founder & Director Emeritus | 1948 |
| Voin Todorovic | CFO & Chief Administrative Officer | 1975 |
| Yevgeny Fundler J.D. | Chief Legal Officer & Secretary | 1970 |
| Gary D. Schnierow C.F.A., J.D. | Vice President of Investor Relations & Corporate Finance | – |
| Dara Meath | Senior VP & CTO | – |
| Rosalind Johnson | Senior VP & Chief People Officer | – |
| Dorrie Krueger | Chief Strategy Officer | – |
| Kim Utlaut | Senior VP & Chief Brand Officer | – |
| Carmen Flores | Senior VP for eCommerce & Digital Experiences | – |
Executives per the latest required filings; titles kept in their original language. Source: fundamental data.
Filings
Company Filings (8-K)
An 8-K is the filing a US company must use to disclose material events immediately — takeovers, changes at the top, major contracts or payment troubles, for instance. The links open the original document at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
- 09/09/2026 BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC (BBW): Other Events; Financial Statements and Exhibits SEC ↗
- 08/27/2026 BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC (BBW): Results of Operations and Financial Condition; Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers; Financial Statements and Exhibits SEC ↗
Data as of: September 18, 2026 · Source: fundamental data & SEC filings (annual and quarterly reports, 10-K/10-Q)
Note: pure fact-based analysis, not investment advice and not a solicitation to buy or sell. All figures without guarantee.