Bath & Body Works Inc vs Direxion NASDAQ 100 Equal Weighted Index Shares — how do they compare? Bath & Body Works Inc trades at $19 (market cap $3.81B), while Direxion NASDAQ 100 Equal Weighted Index Shares trades at $122.33. The key difference: Bath & Body Works Inc pays a 4.24% dividend while Direxion NASDAQ 100 Equal Weighted Index Shares pays none, and Direxion NASDAQ 100 Equal Weighted Index Shares is trading nearer its 52-week high, Bath & Body Works Inc nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BBWI | QQQE | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $3.81B | — |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Broad Market / Factor |
52-Week High | $31.87 | $122.72 |
52-Week Low | $14.85 | $96.06 |
Enterprise Value | $7.70B | — |
Dividend Yield | 4.24% | — |
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Bath & Body Works is a specialty home fragrance and fragrant body care retailer operating under the Bath & Body Works, C.O. Bigelow, and White Barn brands. The company generates most of its business in North America, with less than 5% of sales from international markets in fiscal 2021. For fiscal 2021, 72% of sales stemmed from the brick-and-mortar network (which is composed of more than 1,700 retail stores), up from 65% in 2020, as consumer shopping patterns began to return to normal. Future growth is expected from store reformatting, digital and international channels, as well as new category expansion.
Read more on BBWI →QQQE is an ETF that seeks to track the performance of the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index. Unlike traditional market-capitalization-weighted indexes, this fund assigns equal weight to each of the 100 non-financial companies in the NASDAQ-100 and rebalances quarterly. This equal-weighting scheme reduces concentration risk in the largest technology companies and increases the fund's exposure to smaller-cap and mid-cap companies within the index, providing a differentiated growth profile.
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