Best Buy earnings strong despite iPad pinch

Best Buy on Tuesday reported strong fiscal second-quarter earnings but said that "constrained inventory" of the Apple iPad hurt its market share over the last three months.

The company reported second-quarter earnings of $254 million, or 60 cents a share, on revenue of $11.34 billion. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 44 cents a share on revenue of $11.54 billion.

Same store sales for the three months ended August 28 fell slightly and gross margins were 25.7 percent.

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