Bath & Body Works Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:BBWI)

14 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bath & Body Works in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" BBWI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BBWI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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14 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Bath & Body Works' stock. Their BBWI share price targets range from $27.00 to $61.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $41.14 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.5% from the stock's current price.
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Bath & Body Works' stock was trading at $42.14 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, BBWI shares have decreased by 10.8% and is now trading at $37.57.
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Bath & Body Works saw a decline in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 8,910,000 shares, a decline of 11.2% from the October 31st total of 10,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,410,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.6 days. Approximately 3.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 22nd 2024.
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Bath & Body Works, Inc. (NYSE:BBWI) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 16th. The company reported $0.48 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.35 by $0.13. The firm had revenue of $1.56 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.56 billion. Bath & Body Works had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 32.64% and a net margin of 9.90%. Bath & Body Works's revenue was down 2.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.40 EPS.

Bath & Body Works declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 3rd. Investors of record on Friday, November 17th will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Friday, December 1st. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.13%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 16th.
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Bath & Body Works (NYSE:BBWI) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.16%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 25.08%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BBWI will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.26% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Bath & Body Works issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 16th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.70-1.90 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.98. The company issued revenue guidance of down 1-5% yr/yr to ~$2.74-2.86 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.89 billion.

Bath & Body Works' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Lone Pine Capital LLC (3.83%), Primecap Management Co. CA (2.47%), Atreides Management LP (1.95%), Invesco Ltd. (1.73%), Morgan Stanley (1.31%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.14%). Insiders that own company stock include Robert H Schottenstein, Thomas E Mazurek and Wendy C Arlin.
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