Bath & Body Works (NYSE:BBWI) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Bath & Body Works (NYSE:BBWI) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.360-0.430 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.440. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.4 billion-$1.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.4 billion. Bath & Body Works also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 3.250-3.600 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

BBWI has been the subject of several analyst reports. Argus restated a “hold” rating on shares of Bath & Body Works in a research note on Friday, January 10th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upped their target price on shares of Bath & Body Works from $51.00 to $52.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, November 26th. Wells Fargo & Company raised shares of Bath & Body Works from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and lifted their price target for the stock from $42.00 to $48.00 in a research note on Friday, January 10th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised Bath & Body Works from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and boosted their target price for the company from $41.00 to $47.00 in a research note on Tuesday, February 18th. Finally, Barclays raised shares of Bath & Body Works from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and increased their price target for the company from $34.00 to $43.00 in a research report on Monday. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twelve have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Bath & Body Works has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $44.44.

Bath & Body Works Price Performance

Shares of BBWI stock opened at $41.04 on Thursday. Bath & Body Works has a 1 year low of $26.20 and a 1 year high of $52.99. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $37.82 and a 200-day moving average price of $34.07. The company has a market cap of $8.89 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.01, a PEG ratio of 0.92 and a beta of 1.83.

Bath & Body Works (NYSE:BBWI) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November 25th. The company reported $0.49 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46 by $0.03. The business had revenue of $1.61 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.58 billion. Bath & Body Works had a negative return on equity of 44.03% and a net margin of 12.43%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 3.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.48 earnings per share. Equities research analysts expect that Bath & Body Works will post 3.3 EPS for the current year.

Bath & Body Works Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 7th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 21st will be paid a $0.20 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 21st. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.95%. Bath & Body Works’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 19.51%.

About Bath & Body Works

Bath & Body Works, Inc is a specialty retailers and home to America’s Favorite Fragrances, offering a breadth of exclusive fragrances for the body and home, including the selling collections for fine fragrance mist, body lotion and body cream, 3-wick candles, home fragrance diffusers and liquid hand soap.