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Description of Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policy)
9 Months Ended
Nov. 01, 2025
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Description of Business
Description of Business
Victoria’s Secret & Co. (together with its subsidiaries unless the context otherwise requires, the “Company”) is a specialty retailer of women’s intimate and other apparel and beauty products marketed under the Victoria’s Secret, PINK and Adore Me brand names. The Company has approximately 860 stores in the United States (“U.S.”), Canada and China as well as its own websites, www.VictoriasSecret.com, www.PINK.com, www.AdoreMe.com and www.DailyLook.com, and other digital channels worldwide. Additionally, the Company has more than 540 stores in approximately 70 countries operating under franchise, license and wholesale arrangements. The Company also includes the merchandise sourcing and production function serving the Company and its international partners. The Company operates as a single segment designed to serve customers worldwide through a network of stores and digital channels.
Year-to-date 2025 and in the third quarter of 2024, the Company made certain restructuring actions to continue to restructure its executive leadership team and organizational structure. For additional information, see Note 4, “Restructuring Activities.”
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year
The Company’s fiscal year ends on the Saturday nearest to January 31. As used herein, “third quarter of 2025” and “third quarter of 2024” refer to the thirteen-week periods ended November 1, 2025 and November 2, 2024, respectively. “Year-to-date 2025” and “year-to-date 2024” refer to the thirty-nine-week periods ended November 1, 2025 and November 2, 2024, respectively, and “fiscal year 2025” and “fiscal year 2024” refer to the fifty-two-week period ending January 31, 2026 and the fifty-two-week period ended February 1, 2025, respectively.
Basis of Presentation
Basis of Consolidation
The Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The Company has a joint venture to operate Victoria’s Secret stores and the related online business in China. The Company owns 51% and has control over the joint venture, thus, the joint venture’s assets, liabilities and results of operations are consolidated in the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
Interim Financial Statements
Interim Financial Statements
The Consolidated Financial Statements as of and for the periods ended November 1, 2025 and November 2, 2024 are unaudited. These Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 21, 2025 (“2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K”).
In the opinion of management, the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements reflect all adjustments, which are of a normal recurring nature, necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods.
Seasonality of Business
Seasonality of Business
Due to the seasonal variations in the retail industry, the results of operations for the thirteen-week and thirty-nine-week periods ended November 1, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for any other interim period or the full fiscal year ending January 31, 2026.
Equity Method Investments
Equity Method Investments
The Company accounts for investments in unconsolidated entities where it exercises significant influence, but does not have control, using the equity method. Under the equity method of accounting, the Company recognizes its share of the investee’s net income or loss. Losses are only recognized to the extent the Company has positive carrying value related to the investee. Carrying values are only reduced below zero if the Company has an obligation to provide funding to the investee. The Company’s share of net income or loss of unconsolidated entities from which the Company purchases merchandise or merchandise components is included in Costs of Goods Sold, Buying and Occupancy in the Consolidated Statements of Loss, and the Company’s share of net income or loss from all other unconsolidated entities is included in General, Administrative and Store Operating Expenses in the Consolidated Statements of Loss. The Company’s equity method investments are required to be reviewed for impairment when it is determined there may be an other-than-temporary loss in value.
Noncontrolling Interest
Noncontrolling Interest
The Company accounts for investments in entities where it has control over the entity by consolidating the entities’ assets, liabilities and results of operations and including them in the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements. The share of the investment not owned by the Company is reflected in Noncontrolling Interest in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company recognizes the share of net income or loss not attributable to the Company in Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interest in the Consolidated Statements of Loss. Noncontrolling interest represents the portion of equity interests in a joint venture in China that is not owned by the Company.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Concentration of Credit Risk
The Company maintains cash and cash equivalents with various major financial institutions. The Company monitors the relative credit standing of financial institutions with whom the Company transacts with and limits the amount of credit exposure with any one entity. As of November 1, 2025, the Company’s investment portfolio was primarily comprised of money market funds and bank deposits.
The Company also periodically reviews the relative credit standing of franchise, license and wholesale partners and other entities to which the Company grants credit terms in the normal course of business. The Company determines the required allowance for expected credit losses using information such as customer credit history and financial condition. Amounts are recorded to the allowance when it is determined that expected credit losses may occur.
Supplier Finance Programs
Supplier Finance Programs
The Company has agreements with designated third-party financial institutions to provide supplier finance programs which facilitate participating suppliers’ ability to finance payment obligations of the Company. Participating suppliers may finance one or more payment obligations of the Company prior to their scheduled due dates and receive a discounted payment from participating financial institutions. The Company’s obligations to its suppliers, including amounts due and scheduled payment dates, are not impacted by suppliers’ decisions to finance amounts under these arrangements.
Use of Estimates in the Preparation of Financial Statements
Use of Estimates in the Preparation of Financial Statements
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period, as well as the related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements. Actual results may differ from those estimates, and the Company revises its estimates and assumptions as new information becomes available.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
The Company did not adopt any new accounting standards during the third quarter of 2025 that had a material impact on the Company’s results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
Internal-Use Software
In September 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2025-06, Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software, which is intended to modernize the accounting for internal-use software costs, primarily by removing references to project stages from capitalization criteria and further clarifying the threshold entities apply to begin capitalizing costs. This standard will be effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning in fiscal year 2028, with early adoption permitted. This standard may be applied prospectively, retrospectively or using a modified transition approach. The Company is currently evaluating the impacts of adopting this standard on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, which is intended to improve expense disclosures, primarily by requiring disclosure of disaggregated information about certain income statement expense line items on an annual and interim basis. This standard will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning in fiscal year 2027 and for interim periods beginning in fiscal year 2028, with early adoption permitted. The updates required by this standard should be applied prospectively, but retrospective application is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting this standard on its disclosures.
Income Taxes
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which is intended to enhance the transparency and decision-usefulness of income tax disclosures, primarily by requiring enhanced disclosure for income taxes paid and the effective tax rate reconciliation. This standard will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning in fiscal year 2025. The updates required by this standard should be applied prospectively, but retrospective application is permitted. The Company does not expect this standard to have a material impact on its results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
Earnings Per Share
Net Loss Per Share
Net loss per basic share is computed based on the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Net loss per diluted share includes the weighted-average effect of dilutive restricted stock units, performance share units and options (collectively, “Dilutive Awards”) on the weighted-average shares outstanding.
Inventory
Inventories are principally valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value, on an average cost basis. The above amounts are net of valuation adjustments for inventory where the cost exceeds the amount the Company expects to realize from the ultimate sale or disposal of the inventory and net of loss adjustments for estimated physical inventory losses that have occurred since the date of the last physical inventory.
Fair Value
Cash and Cash Equivalents include cash on hand, deposits with financial institutions and highly liquid investments with original maturities of 90 days or less. The Company’s Cash and Cash Equivalents are considered Level 1 fair value measurements as they are valued using unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets.