Meanwhile, L Brands' other property, Bath & Body Works, continues to look attractive despite concerns of a slowdown, the analyst continued. The store's brand will likely continue to comp positively and be able to defend its market share through reinvestment in marketing along with continued innovation.
Also, a meeting with the retailer's management team expressed a "high belief" in Victoria's Secret ability to turnaround, but more important, management is equally committed to improve profitability through a sales turnaround, or an expense base reset.Finally, L Brands' dividend yield of around 6 percent is "safe in our view" and the stock price itself is "very depressed" at a 12.8x multiple. However, once Victoria's Secret shows signs of improvements the stock will rerate back towards a high-teens PE multiple.
"Having observed the changes to the VS store assortment and the new product/collection launches this month, we are confident that the sales trend at VS will inflect through year-end and return to a solidly positive pace through 2018," the analyst argued.
At time of publication, shares of L Brands were up 3.99 percent at $42.53.
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