In today’s recent session, 0.63 million shares of the Bath & Body Works Inc (NYSE:BBWI) have been traded, and its beta is 1.87. Most recently the company’s share price was $27.97, and it changed around -$0.68 or -2.39% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $5.99B. BBWI at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $52.99, offering almost -89.45% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $24.96, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 10.76% since then. We note from Bath & Body Works Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 7.77 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 5.56 million.
Bath & Body Works Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.50. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 21 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 6 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 5 recommended BBWI as a Hold, whereas 10 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Bath & Body Works Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 0.42 for the current quarter.
Bath & Body Works Inc (NYSE:BBWI) trade information
Instantly BBWI has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -2.39% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 30.23 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 7.48%. The company’s shares are currently down -27.87% year-to-date, but still up 9.62% over the last five days. On the other hand, Bath & Body Works Inc (NYSE:BBWI) is -7.52% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 5.72 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 0.82 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $47, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 40.49% from its current value. Analyst projections state that BBWI is forecast to be at a low of $38 and a high of $48.
Bath & Body Works Inc (BBWI) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 2.37%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 14 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 1.42B in revenue for the current quarter. 14 analysts expect Bath & Body Works Inc to make 1.57B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 1.38B and 1.53B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 2.82%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 2.70%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 3.75%. Bath & Body Works Inc earnings are expected to increase by 7.69% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 6.99% per year for the next five years.
BBWI Dividends
Bath & Body Works Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-26. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 2.86 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.80. It is important to note, however, that the 2.86% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 5.47 per year.
Bath & Body Works Inc (NYSE:BBWI)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.36% of Bath & Body Works Inc shares, and 100.36% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 100.72%. Bath & Body Works Inc stock is held by 685.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 12.2152% of the shares, which is about 27.48 million shares worth $1.07 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 7.1076% or 15.78 million shares worth $616.16 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 7.07 shares worth $199.35 million, making up 3.30% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 6.72 shares worth around $189.48 million, which represents about 3.14% of the total shares outstanding.
