BJ
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-10-20The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates warehouse clubs on the eastern half of the United States. It provides perishable, general merchandise, gasoline, coupon books, promotions, and other ancillary services. The company sells its products through the websites BJs.com, BerkleyJensen.com, and Wellsleyfarms.com, as well as the mobile app. The company was formerly known as Beacon Hol…
Management team
- Ms. Monica Schwartz · Executive VP & Chief Digital OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. William C. Werner · Executive Vice President of Strategy & DevelopmentFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Brian Poulliot · Executive Vice President of Enterprise AnalyticsFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Graham N. Luce · Executive VP, General Counsel & SecretaryFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it, not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.3 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
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The evidence balance is Mixed (+ 0.2 of a possible + 2; was + 0.2 before debate) · confidence high. Revenue grew year‑over‑year in the sampled quarters: revenue was $ 5,153,483,000 for FISCAL Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-05-21) versus $ 5,153,483,000 reported for FISCAL Q1 2025 and $ 6,226,574,000 for FISCAL Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-08-20) versus $ 5,380,240,000 for FISCAL Q2 2025, a year‑over‑year Q2 increase of $ 846,334,000.
Gross dollar gross profit rose between the compared Q2 periods from $ 1,006,175,000 to $ 1,109,994,000, but gross margin compressed about 0.9 percentage point to roughly 17.82% in FISCAL Q2 2026 from about 18.71% in FISCAL Q2 2025. Operating income and operating margin were roughly stable to slightly higher (operating income $ 252,357,000 and operating margin ~ 4.05% in FISCAL Q2 2026 versus operating income $ 216,530,000 and margin ~ 4.02% in FISCAL Q2 2025), diluted EPS rose to $ 1.36 in FISCAL Q2 2026 from $ 1.14 in FISCAL Q2 2025, share count declined across the sampled quarters, repurchases increased (e.g., $ 225,717,000 in the period shown), and long‑term debt remained essentially unchanged around $ 399,1xx,000.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else (no outside knowledge, no browsing), so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC (revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter) and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue grew year-over-year: revenue for the fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-02-01 to 2026-05-02, 3mo) was $5,153,483,000 for the period reported as Q1 2025 and $5,661,500,000 for the fiscal Q1 2026 period (increase of $508,017,000 between those quarter periods).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001531152-26-000030Revenue growth accelerated in the comparable Q2 period: revenue for the fiscal Q2 2025 (2025-05-04 to 2025-08-02, 3mo) was $5,380,240,000 versus $6,226,574,000 for the fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-05-03 to 2026-08-01, 3mo), a year‑over‑year increase of $846,334,000 for those quarter periods.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001531152-26-000057Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim: a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
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No computed signal history for this symbol yet — signals need roughly 70 trading days of price history.
Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-10-01, BJ was a holding representing 0.49% of the IJH fund.
ETF constituents · market dataAs of 2026-10-17, BJ was a holding representing 0.03% of the VTI fund.
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Company press releases publicize a new Ocala, Florida club opening scheduled for October 23, 2026.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-20A company press release announces an Early Black Friday promotion starting October 23, 2026, with deals in-club and online.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-15Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5: who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The filings on record don't carry four quarters of both operating cash flow and capital expenditure. IFRS filers report no common capex concept, so no FCF claim is made..
Debate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score. The argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
The claims jointly support a favorable read by showing revenue acceleration across sequential quarters alongside rising diluted EPS and a falling share count, which together increased earnings per share intensity. Operating margin is roughly stable quarter-to-quarter despite a modest gross-margin compression, and share repurchases materially increased in the sampled period — evidence consistent with management deploying cash to enhance per‑share metrics. Company‑specific news (new club opening, Early Black Friday promotion, SKU rationalization, and labor awards) and coverage across multiple outlets provide corroborating operational momentum and visible growth initiatives. Taken together, these items form a coherent signal of revenue growth, improving per‑share results, and active capital allocation in the period covered.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.36
19 surviving claims rest on 10 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 42% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The surviving set is moderately fragile: 19 supported claims draw on just 10 distinct sources, so single-source errors could flip multiple claims. Nearly half the weight traces to one analyst (42%), and the fact that everything raised in the desk debate survived suggests limited internal challenge — together these factors mean the read should be treated as informational but not highly robust.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
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What this was built from
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13 filings· 2 cited
SEC XBRL filings
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Read by Mercer+0.5 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
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Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
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Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
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1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal; the gap is shown rather than hidden.
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