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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000315066-14-001895
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SC 13G/A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1
FILED AS OF DATE: 20140214
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140214
SUBJECT COMPANY:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BEST BUY CO INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000764478
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-RADIO TV & CONSUMER ELECTRONICS STORES [5731]
IRS NUMBER: 410907483
STATE OF INCORPORATION: MN
FISCAL YEAR END: 0201
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: SC 13G/A
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 005-38156
FILM NUMBER: 14609547
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 7601 PENN AVE SOUTH
CITY: RICHFIELD
STATE: MN
ZIP: 55423
BUSINESS PHONE: 6122911000
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 7601 PENN AVE SOUTH
CITY: RICHFIELD
STATE: MN
ZIP: 55423
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BEST BUYS CO INC
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19900809
FILED BY:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FMR LLC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000315066
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: UNKNOWN SIC - 0000 [0000]
IRS NUMBER: 061209781
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: SC 13G/A
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 245 SUMMER STREET
CITY: BOSTON
STATE: MA
ZIP: 02210
BUSINESS PHONE: 6175706339
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 245 SUMMER STREET
CITY: BOSTON
STATE: MA
ZIP: 02210
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FMR CORP
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920717
SC 13G/A
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filing.txt
SCHEDULE 13G
Amendment No. 4
Best Buy Company Incorporated
Common Stock
Cusip #086516101
Cusip #086516101
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR LLC
Item 4: Delaware
Item 5: 1,091,350
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 42,537,949
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 42,537,949
Item 11: 12.294%
Item 12: HC
Cusip #086516101
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 42,537,949
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 42,537,949
Item 11: 12.294%
Item 12: IN
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:
Best Buy Company Incorporated
Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
7601 Penn Ave South
Richfield, MN 55423
Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:
FMR LLC
Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None,
Residence:
245 Summer Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02210
Item 2(c). Citizenship:
Not applicable
Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:
Common Stock
Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:
086516101
Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
and the person filing, FMR LLC, is a parent holding company
in accordance with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See
Item 7).
Item 4. Ownership
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned: 42,537,949
(b) Percent of Class: 12.294%
(c) Number of shares as to which such
person has:
(i) sole power to vote or to direct
the vote: 1,091,350
(ii) shared power to vote or to
direct the vote: 0
(iii) sole power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 42,537,949
(iv) shared power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 0
Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person.
Various persons have the right to receive or the power to
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the
sale of, the Common Stock of Best Buy Company
Incorporated. The interest of one person, Fidelity Low-Priced
Stock Fund, an investment company registered under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, in the Common Stock of
Best Buy Company Incorporated, amounted to 22,600,000
shares or 6.532% of the total outstanding Common Stock at
December 31, 2013.
Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent
Holding Company.
See attached Exhibit A.
Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of
the Group.
Not applicable. See attached Exhibit A.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Certification.
By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in the
ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the
purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and
were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any
transaction having such purpose or effect.
Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement
is true, complete and correct.
February 13, 2014
Date
/s/ Scott C. Goebel
Signature
Scott C. Goebel
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
effective as of June 1, 2008 by and on behalf of FMR LLC
and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G,
Fidelity Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 245
Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, a wholly-
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and an investment adviser
registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act
of 1940, is the beneficial owner of 41,270,219 shares or
11.928% of the Common Stock outstanding of Best Buy
Company Incorporated ("the Company") as a result of acting
as investment adviser to various investment companies
registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of
1940.
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of Fidelity, and the funds each has sole power to
dispose of the 41,270,219 shares owned by the Funds.
The ownership of one investment company, Fidelity
Low-Priced Stock Fund, amounted to 22,600,000 shares or
6.532% of the Common Stock outstanding. Fidelity Low-
Priced Stock Fund has its principal business office at 245
Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210.
Members of the family of Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR LLC, are the predominant owners, directly
or through trusts, of Series B voting common shares of FMR
LLC, representing 49% of the voting power of FMR LLC.
The Johnson family group and all other Series B shareholders
have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under
which all Series B voting common shares will be voted in
accordance with the majority vote of Series B voting common
shares. Accordingly, through their ownership of voting
common shares and the execution of the shareholders' voting
agreement, members of the Johnson family may be deemed,
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to form a
controlling group with respect to FMR LLC.
Neither FMR LLC nor Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR LLC, has the sole power to vote or direct
the voting of the shares owned directly by the Fidelity Funds,
which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written
guidelines established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity Management Trust Company, 245 Summer
Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of FMR LLC and a bank as defined in Section
3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is the
beneficial owner of 86,305 shares or 0.025% of the Common
Stock outstanding of the Company as a result of its serving as
investment manager of the institutional account(s).
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of Fidelity Management Trust Company, each has sole
dispositive power over 86,305 shares and sole power to vote
or to direct the voting of 86,305 shares of Common Stock
owned by the institutional account(s) as reported above.
Strategic Advisers, Inc., 245 Summer Street, Boston,
MA 02210, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and an
investment adviser registered under Section 203 of the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, provides investment
advisory services to individuals. As such, FMR LLC's
beneficial ownership includes 9,099 shares, or 0.003%, of the
Common Stock outstanding of Best Buy Company
Incorporated, beneficially owned through Strategic Advisers,
Inc.
Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC ("PGALLC"), 900
Salem Street, Smithfield, Rhode Island, 02917, an indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and an investment
adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, is the beneficial owner of 58,280 shares
or 0.017% of the outstanding Common Stock of Best Buy
Company Incorporated as a result of its serving as investment
adviser to institutional accounts, non-U.S. mutual funds, or
investment companies registered under Section 8 of the
Investment Company Act of 1940 owning such shares.
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of PGALLC, each has sole dispositive power over
58,280 shares and sole power to vote or to direct the voting of
58,280 shares of Common Stock owned by the institutional
accounts or funds advised by PGALLC as reported above.
Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company ("PGATC"),
900 Salem Street, Smithfield, Rhode Island, 02917, an indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and a bank as defined
in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is
the beneficial owner of 1,114,046 shares or 0.322% of the
outstanding Common Stock of the Best Buy Company
Incorporated as a result of its serving as investment manager
of institutional accounts owning such shares.
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company, each has
sole dispositive power over 1,114,046 shares and sole power
to vote or to direct the voting of 936,376 shares of Common
Stock owned by the institutional accounts managed by
PGATC as reported above.
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
RULE 13d-1(f)(1) AGREEMENT
The undersigned persons, on February 13, 2014, agree
and consent to the joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule
13G in connection with their beneficial ownership of the
Common Stock of Best Buy Company Incorporated at
December 31, 2013.
FMR LLC
By /s/ Scott C. Goebel
Scott C. Goebel
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney effective as
of June 1, 2008, by and on behalf of FMR LLC and its direct
and indirect subsidiaries
Edward C. Johnson 3d
By /s/ Scott C. Goebel
Scott C. Goebel
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney effective as
of June 1, 2008, by and on behalf of Edward C. Johnson 3d
Fidelity Management & Research Company
By /s/ Scott C. Goebel
Scott C. Goebel
Senior V.P. and General Counsel
Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund
By /s/ Scott C. Goebel
Scott C. Goebel
Secretary