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Bath and Body Works, Inc., based in Columbus, Ohio, sells personal care and beauty products. The company has 1,850 company-operated Bath & Body Works locations. It also sells its products through franchises in 485 locations worldwide, as well as on the company's website, bathandbodyworks.com. The company's brands include Bath & Body Works, C. O. Bigelow, and White Barn Candle Co. The company has approximately 9,000 employees. Bath & Body Works was dropped from the S&P 500 index and added to the S&P Small-Cap 600 index on October 1, 2024.

Founded in 1998, Lululemon Athletica is based in Vancouver, Canada, though it is incorporated in Delaware and its financial results are reported in U.S. dollars. The company designs and sells athletic apparel, and markets its yoga-inspired clothing under the lululemon athletica and ivivva athletica brand names. It also sells fitness pants, shorts, tops and jackets designed for running and other sports. Sales in FY25 were $10.6 billion, up 10% from the prior year. The fiscal year ends on the Sunday closest to January 31.

Last week ended in ugly fashion, with stocks reversing lower at mid-week. That called into question the positive developments seen of late in the insider-sentiment data from Vickers Stock Research. By way of a quick recap, the data from Vickers took a major positive turn two weeks ago and stayed the course last week. Early on in that two-week window, stocks responded accordingly, posting significant gains on multiple days. But by the end of last week, tariff, inflation, and consumer-sentiment uncertainty jumped back to the head of the line and stocks suffered. And yet, insiders are still holding the line. The data from Vickers this week remains positive enough for all of the major eight-week sell/buy ratios to improve. Of note, though, the volume of insider transactions fell off unexpectedly, with about 850 transactions meeting the criteria for inclusion in the Vickers' Weekly Insider Report. That compares to 1333 last week and 1587 the week before that. As we said two weeks ago, insiders historically jump in before many other investors when an apparent opportunity presents itself. So stay tuned. On a sector basis, insider buying exceeded selling in Healthcare last week, with shares valued at $15.2 million bought versus $7.5 million sold. Buying was also notable in Real Estate, as shares valued at $671,878 were bought, outpacing the level of selling activity by a factor of 1.2-times. On the other side of the coin, selling was the greatest in Information Technology over the last week, with shares valued at $79 million sold versus $12 million bought, as well as in Energy, with $64 million sold versus $4 million bought, and Financial, with $34 million sold versus $3 million bought. This week, analysts at Vickers highlighted insider transactions of interest at Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) and Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. (NGS: SFM).

Lululemon Athletica designs, distributes, and markets athletic apparel, footwear, and accessories for women, men, and girls. The company offers pants, shorts, tops, and jackets for both leisure and athletic activities such as yoga and running. Lululemon also sells fitness accessories, such as bags, yoga mats, and equipment. It sells its products through digital channels, a small number of wholesale partners, more than 760 company-owned stores in about two dozen countries in North America, Asia, and Western Europe, and about 40 franchised locations in the Middle East. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.