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Victoria’s Secret & Co. sells bras, panties, lingerie and related products under the Victoria’s Secret, PINK and Adore Me brands, alongside sleepwear, other apparel, fragrances and body care. It develops its merchandise and relies on outside manufacturers to produce most of it.
Shoppers pay the company directly when they buy from its stores or online. North American stores provide most of its revenue, with digital sales the next-largest source. International partners also sell its products: franchise and license partners pay royalties tied to their retail sales, while wholesale partners buy merchandise from the company for resale.
The business depends on getting fit and fashion preferences right and bringing shoppers into stores, many of which are in malls and other retail centers. The holiday quarter is especially important to sales and profit. The company builds inventory ahead of that season, so products that fail to attract buyers may need substantial discounts.
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Victoria’s Secret’s results hinge on women’s intimates demand and brand preference; watch Skims, a competitor named in the supplied filings but missing from this list.
Playboy’s Honey Birdette competes directly with Victoria’s Secret for lingerie purchases through its own stores and websites. Watch Honey Birdette’s direct-to-consumer sales rather than Playboy’s brand-licensing revenue for the closer read on that rivalry.
Bath & Body Works competes with Victoria’s Secret for shoppers’ fragrance and body-care spending through branded stores and digital channels. Its fragrance mist, perfume and body-cream sales are more relevant to that competition than its home-fragrance candles.
Urban Outfitters’ Free People and Anthropologie compete with Victoria’s Secret for women buying intimates, lounge apparel and related fashion.
Abercrombie & Fitch’s Abercrombie and Hollister brands draw on the young consumers’ fashion spending that also supports Victoria’s Secret and PINK, selling apparel through stores and online. Watch Hollister’s store traffic and promotional activity for clues to the spending conditions facing PINK.
Gildan competes with Victoria’s Secret in underwear and intimates, selling mainly through large retailers and national accounts, as well as directly to shoppers and online retailers. Focus on its Innerwear sales: that business accounted for 15% of fiscal 2025 sales, while Activewear accounted for 85%.
Ulta Beauty competes for the beauty shoppers buying Victoria’s Secret’s fragrance and body-care products, offering fragrance and skin care through stores and digital platforms. Its fragrance and skin-care sales are the relevant areas to watch, rather than its broader cosmetics, hair-care and salon business.
Playboy, Inc. earningsPLBY
Playboy’s report will show whether Honey Birdette’s lingerie sales through its own stores and websites are competing more or less intensely with Victoria’s Secret for shoppers.
Look at Honey Birdette’s direct-to-consumer sales—sales through its own stores and websites—not Playboy’s brand-licensing revenue. Growth would show this lingerie rival drawing more shoppers, sharpening competition for Victoria’s Secret; a decline would point to less pressure from this rival, not prove those shoppers switched to Victoria’s Secret.
Retail Sales MoM (Oct)
Retail sales track how much consumers spend at stores, so stronger or weaker demand can change Victoria’s Secret’s sales of intimates, apparel and beauty products and the promotions needed to sell them.
If retail sales strengthen, that points to firmer consumer spending that could support demand for Victoria’s Secret’s products and reduce inventory-clearing promotions; if they weaken, demand may soften, leaving more goods to clear and pressuring sales and gross margins.
Victorias Secret & Co. earningsThis company
Victoria’s Secret sells intimates, apparel and beauty through stores and digital channels; this report shows whether sales growth is turning into gross profit or tariffs and promotions are eating it away.
Read comparable sales alongside the gross-profit rate, the share of sales left after merchandise costs. Rising sales with a stable or improving rate would mean customer demand and less discounting are holding up against costs such as tariffs; weaker sales or a falling rate would mean demand, promotions or costs are eroding the gains.
