BBWI
Bath & Body Works Inc.Consumer Discretionary · ·
$20.14
▼ $0.65 (-3.1%)
Market Cap
$4.06B
Day Range
$20.12 - $20.93
52-Week Range
$14.28 - $32.32
Beta
—
Next Earnings
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BBWI is a stock from the Consumer Cyclical sector — Retail, automotive, and leisure — demand rises and falls with economic sentiment and consumers' disposable income.
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This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer
Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%
🔍 Cross-Check
Overall Score
🟡 Mixed
Technical Trend
🔴 Bearish
Insiders
🟢 Bullish
✅ Why is the score relatively high?
- 🟢 Estimated fair value: $45.82 vs. price $20.14 (+127.5%)
- 🟢 Free cash flow growth: 31.1%
- 🟢 Debt/equity: -3.04
- 🟢 MACD histogram is positive — rising momentum
- 🟢 +0.2% over the last 3 months relative to the index
⚠️ What's concerning?
- 🔴 Operating margin is eroding over time
- 🔴 ATR: 4.5% of price
- 🔴 Return on equity (ROE): -50.7% (negative)
- 🔴 Revenue growth (last year): -0.2%
- 🔴 Earnings per share (EPS) growth: -13.9%
🚦 Quality & Risk Checks
📰 News Trend
Based on real financial news (Finnhub)Everyone's writing about Bath & Body Works Inc.. News trend score: 68. Reason: 7 of the last 18 articles are positive, versus 4 negative.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
📈 Technical Analysis
Based on the last 251 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🔴 Most indicators support a downtrend (3 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 neutral)
Conclusions
- 🔴Price vs. SMA 50 — Price is below the 50-day average
- 🔴Price vs. SMA 200 — Price is below the 200-day average
- 🟢MACD — MACD histogram is positive — rising momentum
- 🔴RSI — RSI 47.9 — weak/negative bias
- 🟡Stochastic — %K 41.6 — neutral range
- 🟡ADX (trend strength) — ADX 10.4 — weak trend/choppy
- 🟢Relative strength vs. S&P 500 — +0.2% over the last 3 months relative to the index
- 🔴ROC (rate of change) — ROC 12 days: -0.6%
- 🟢Parabolic SAR — Price is above the SAR point — uptrend
- 🔴CMF (money flow) — CMF 20 days: -0.05
Wyckoff Method Analysis
A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.
The stock is in a clear uptrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.
Medium confidence
Evidence Behind This Read
- 🟢Rising price trend — A 3.5% change over the last 50 days, with no defined trading range.
The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.
🎯 Trade Planning (M.A.E.E Framework)
Based on a mechanical trading method: market structure → value zone → ATR-based exit point. Not investment advice — a calculation tool only.
1️⃣ Market Structure
🔴 Downtrend
The price is below the 200-day average — an environment that mainly favors looking for selling (Short) opportunities, not buying.
2️⃣ Value Zone
🟢 Price in value zone
The price is close to the 50-day moving average — per the method, this is a reasonable area to look for an entry, rather than chasing the price far from it.
3️⃣ Suggested Exit Point (ATR-based)
Method formula: Stop-loss = resistance plusone ATR margin — this way the stop adapts to the stock's actual volatility, rather than an arbitrary number.
Entry
$20.14
Stop-Loss
$24.63
Risk per Share
$4.49
Direction
Short
Profit Targets by Risk/Reward Ratio (R)
1:2 R
$11.17
1:3 R
$6.68
1:5 R
-$2.29
💰 Position Size Calculator
A core principle of the method: never risk a fixed dollar amount — risk a fixed percentage of equity, and let the position size vary according to the risk per share.
Suggested Position Size
22 sh.
💰 Financial Health
Profitability
Gross Margin
43.7%
Operating Margin
15.4%
Net Margin
8.9%
EBITDA Margin
15.4%
Efficiency
ROE
-50.7%
ROA
12.8%
ROIC
—
EPS
$3.12
Balance Sheet
Cash
$953.00M
Total Debt
$3.89B
Current Ratio
1.27
Debt/Equity
-3.04
Conclusions
- 🟢Gross margin — Gross margin: 43.7% — strong
- 🟡Operating margin — Operating margin: 15.4% — reasonable
- 🟡Net margin — Net margin: 8.9% — reasonable
- 🔴Return on equity (ROE) — Return on equity (ROE): -50.7% (negative)
- 🟢Return on assets (ROA) — Return on assets (ROA): 12.8% — strong
- 🟡Current ratio (liquidity) — Current ratio: 1.27
- 🟢Debt-to-equity — Debt/equity: -3.04
- 🟡Interest coverage — Interest coverage: 4.1x
🚀 Growth
Revenue
Earnings per Share (EPS)
Net Income
Free Cash Flow (FCF)
Conclusions
- 🔴Revenue growth (last year) — Revenue growth (last year): -0.2%
- 🔴Earnings per share (EPS) growth — Earnings per share (EPS) growth: -13.9%
- 🟢Free cash flow growth — Free cash flow growth: 31.1%
- 🔴Net income growth — Net income growth: -18.7%
💵 Dividends
Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.
Annual Dividend per Share
| Ex-Dividend Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 5.6.2026 | $0.200 |
| 20.2.2026 | $0.200 |
| 21.11.2025 | $0.200 |
| 22.8.2025 | $0.200 |
| 6.6.2025 | $0.200 |
| 21.2.2025 | $0.200 |
| 22.11.2024 | $0.200 |
| 23.8.2024 | $0.200 |
| 7.6.2024 | $0.200 |
| 22.2.2024 | $0.200 |
| 16.11.2023 | $0.200 |
| 17.8.2023 | $0.200 |
💎 Fair Value (Valuation)
Current Price
$20.14
Estimated Fair Value (DCF)
$45.82
Gap
+127.5%
🟢 Appears cheap relative to estimated value
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Year 1 Growth Rate
-1.2%
Discount Rate (WACC)
9.0%
Terminal Growth Rate
2.5%
Projection Years
5
| Year | Growth Rate | Projected FCF | Present Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | -1.2% | $854.64M | $784.07M |
| 2 | -0.3% | $852.30M | $717.36M |
| 3 | 0.7% | $857.85M | $662.42M |
| 4 | 1.6% | $871.36M | $617.30M |
| 5 | 2.5% | $893.15M | $580.48M |
Base FCF (last actual year)
$865.00M
Terminal Value
$14.08B
Present Value of Terminal Value
$9.15B
Enterprise Value
$12.52B
Net Debt
$2.94B
Equity Value
$9.58B
*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.
Book Value per Share
-$6.13
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
-$9.13
Conclusions
- 🟢DCF Fair Value — Estimated fair value: $45.82 vs. price $20.14 (+127.5%)
- 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV) — NAV per share: -$9.13
- 🟢P/E — P/E: 6.5
🕴️ Insider Trading
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 6 purchases and 0 sales out of the last 22 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Javitch Tom | Grant/Award from Employer | 12.6.2026 | 59,003 | +10,309 | — |
| STEINOUR STEPHEN D | Grant/Award from Employer | 11.6.2026 | 56,145 | +7,970 | — |
| Nash Sarah E | Grant/Award from Employer | 11.6.2026 | 298,895 | +13,284 | — |
| Voskuil Steven E | Grant/Award from Employer | 11.6.2026 | 41,895 | +7,970 | — |
| Bogliolo Alessandro | Grant/Award from Employer | 11.6.2026 | 24,490 | +7,970 | — |
| Symancyk James Kevin | Grant/Award from Employer | 11.6.2026 | 48,349 | +7,970 | — |
| Hondal Francis | Grant/Award from Employer | 11.6.2026 | 13,611 | +7,970 | — |
| Lee Danielle M. | Grant/Award from Employer | 11.6.2026 | 26,181 | +7,970 | — |
| Rajlin Juan | Grant/Award from Employer | 11.6.2026 | 24,490 | +7,970 | — |
| Brady Lucy | Grant/Award from Employer | 11.6.2026 | 25,452 | +7,970 | — |
| Heaf Daniel | Tax Withholding in Shares | 16.5.2026 | 288,249 | -7,334 | $17.09 |
| Boratto Eva C | Tax Withholding in Shares | 13.3.2026 | 223,459 | -10,782 | $19.50 |
| Mazurek Thomas E. | Tax Withholding in Shares | 13.3.2026 | 112,681 | -6,327 | $19.50 |
| Boratto Eva C | Grant/Award from Employer | 12.3.2026 | 234,241 | +115,815 | — |
| Mazurek Thomas E. | Grant/Award from Employer | 12.3.2026 | 118,654 | +40,921 | — |
| Heaf Daniel | Grant/Award from Employer | 12.3.2026 | 295,583 | +212,993 | — |
| Nash Sarah E | Open Market Purchase | 24.11.2025 | 285,522 | +10,000 | $15.58 |
| Symancyk James Kevin | Open Market Purchase | 24.11.2025 | 40,379 | +22,500 | $15.58 |
| STEINOUR STEPHEN D | Open Market Purchase | 21.11.2025 | 48,175 | +6,700 | $14.86 |
| Voskuil Steven E | Open Market Purchase | 21.11.2025 | 33,925 | +20,000 | $15.04 |
| Hondal Francis | Open Market Purchase | 21.11.2025 | 21,554 | +3,343 | $15.00 |
| Brady Lucy | Open Market Purchase | 21.11.2025 | 17,482 | +3,470 | $14.40 |
📉 Short Interest
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest
16,341,589 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 14,083,157 on 2026-06-30
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
Weekly Trend — Daily Short-Sale Activity
58.0% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 51.0% the prior week
Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.
📰 News & Sentiment
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 7 positive, 7 neutral, 4 negative out of the last 18 articles.
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