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Stock Analysis · Bath & Body Works Inc (BBWI)

Overview

Bath & Body Works Inc. (BBWI) is a specialty retailer focused on personal care and home fragrance products. Its assortment is centered on items like body care (lotions, soaps, sanitizers), candles, and home fragrance products. The company sells primarily through a network of retail stores and an e-commerce business, with a model that relies on frequent product launches, seasonal collections, and promotions to drive repeat purchases.

In its filings, Bath & Body Works typically describes revenue by channel rather than by many unrelated business lines, because it operates as a focused brand. In simple terms, most sales come from:

Retail stores (mall and off-mall locations)
Direct (digital / e-commerce)

The company’s results are strongly influenced by holiday and seasonal demand patterns (for example, major gifting periods), as well as customer traffic trends in shopping centers and the performance of its online experience.

Looking across the last several fiscal years shown, total revenue trends lower from 2022 to 2025, while profitability remains positive. Interest expense remains a meaningful recurring cost, which is important context when thinking about how much of operating profit ultimately becomes net income.

Key Figures

Metric	Value	Industry ⓘ
Date	Feb 08, 2026
Context
Sector	Consumer Cyclical
Industry	Specialty Retail
Market Cap ⓘ	$4.75B
Beta ⓘ	1.46
Fundamental
P/E Ratio ⓘ	7.14	23.78
Profit Margin ⓘ	9.51%	6.27%
Revenue Growth ⓘ	-1.00%	5.20%
Debt to Equity ⓘ	-312.81%	103.28%
PEG ⓘ	1.17
Free Cash Flow ⓘ	$946.00M

Bath & Body Works has a market capitalization of about $4.75B. The stock’s beta of ~1.46 indicates it has tended to move more than the overall market (higher volatility).

On valuation, BBWI shows a P/E ratio of ~7.1, which is below the specialty retail industry median (~23.8) in the peer set referenced. Profitability is solid with a profit margin of ~9.5%, above the industry median (~6.3%). Recent top-line momentum is weaker: revenue growth year-over-year is about -1.0% versus an industry median of ~5.2%.

Free cash flow over the trailing twelve months is about $946M, which matters because it represents cash the business generated after operating needs and capital spending. The debt-to-equity figure is negative here (about -313%), which commonly happens when a company has negative shareholders’ equity; that makes this particular ratio harder to compare directly to peers and requires extra attention to the balance sheet details in filings.

Growth (Low to Medium)

Bath & Body Works operates in a mature part of consumer retail: personal care and home fragrance are established categories where growth often comes from brand strength, product innovation, store productivity, and digital execution more than from rapid industry expansion. Demand can hold up reasonably well over time, but it is still discretionary spending for many households, which can soften when consumers pull back.

The year-over-year revenue growth shown is frequently slightly negative, with only a few quarters turning modestly positive. This pattern suggests the business has been working through a period where maintaining sales levels (rather than consistently expanding them) has been the main challenge. For long-term business momentum, investors typically watch whether comparable sales stabilize and whether digital and store productivity improve in a durable way.

Free cash flow has remained meaningfully positive in the periods shown (hundreds of millions of dollars annually), even as it declined from earlier highs. In retail, steady cash generation can be a supportive fundamental because it can help fund operations, reinvestment, and required payments to lenders. A potential catalyst for improved long-term growth would be a sustained rebound in traffic/conversion (in-store and online), stronger international expansion execution (if pursued), and continued product innovation that drives repeat purchasing without relying as heavily on discounting.