We are reiterating our Buy rating, but lowering our projections and reducing our price target of BBW to $65 (from $75) after Build-A-Bear reported solid 3Q EBITDA & EPS upside, but lighter than expected revenue, and implied
deep tariff impacts into 1HFY26 will serve to offset near-term positives and materially impact operating results. 3Q tariffs negatively impacted the company by $4 million (or a projected $0.23 in EPS) with a $6 million
further negative impact in 4Q (projected $0.35 in EPS) and, we believe approximately $7 million to $9 million (projected $0.41 to $0.53 in EPS) in the first five months of FY26. While we view this scenario as potentially
conservative, we have to face the facts that overall gross margins, if tariff impacts remain similar to 2HFY25 in 1HFY26 without any further material offsets, will significantly decline. As such, we are reducing our BBW price target to $65 (from $75) or 10.6X our FY26 EV/EBITDA.
04 Dec 2025
BBW: 3Q Review: Tariffs To Be Even Further Drag into FY26; Lowering EPS & PT
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BBW: 3Q Review: Tariffs To Be Even Further Drag into FY26; Lowering EPS & PT
JAKKS PACIFIC (JAKK:NYSE), 0 | JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (JAKK:NAS), 0 | Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW:NYSE), 0 | Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (BBW:NYS), 0 | Funko Inc (FNKO:NYSE), 0 | Funko, Inc. Class A (FNKO:NAS), 0 | HASBRO (HAS:NYSE), 0 | Hasbro, Inc. (HAS:NAS), 0 | MATTEL (MAT:NYSE), 0 | Mattel, Inc. (MAT:NAS), 0
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04 Dec 2025 -
Author:
Eric Beder -
Pages:
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We are reiterating our Buy rating, but lowering our projections and reducing our price target of BBW to $65 (from $75) after Build-A-Bear reported solid 3Q EBITDA & EPS upside, but lighter than expected revenue, and implied
deep tariff impacts into 1HFY26 will serve to offset near-term positives and materially impact operating results. 3Q tariffs negatively impacted the company by $4 million (or a projected $0.23 in EPS) with a $6 million
further negative impact in 4Q (projected $0.35 in EPS) and, we believe approximately $7 million to $9 million (projected $0.41 to $0.53 in EPS) in the first five months of FY26. While we view this scenario as potentially
conservative, we have to face the facts that overall gross margins, if tariff impacts remain similar to 2HFY25 in 1HFY26 without any further material offsets, will significantly decline. As such, we are reducing our BBW price target to $65 (from $75) or 10.6X our FY26 EV/EBITDA.