Bath & Body Works, Inc. (BBWI) Open Interest History
Open interest tracks the total number of outstanding options contracts. Rising OI alongside price moves can indicate growing commitment to the trend; declining OI suggests positions are being closed.
Bath & Body Works, Inc. (BBWI) operates in the Consumer Cyclical sector, specifically the Specialty Retail industry, with a market capitalization near $3.91B, listed on NYSE, employing roughly 60,735 people, carrying a beta of 1.38 to the broader market. Bath & Body Works, Inc. Led by Daniel Heaf, public since 1982-04-01.
Snapshot as of Aug 14, 2026.
- Spot Price
- $19.29
- Call OI
- 30.7K
- Put OI
- 23.6K
- Total OI
- 54.3K
- Put/Call Ratio
- 0.47
As of Aug 14, 2026, Bath & Body Works, Inc. (BBWI) has 54.3K total contracts outstanding across all expirations. Put/call OI ratio is 0.77 (balanced positioning). Open interest reflects accumulated positions from prior sessions; persistent growth indicates sustained directional or hedging interest, while sharp drops typically mean post-expiration clean-up.
How BBWI open interest history Data Feeds Strategy Selection
Strategy selection on Bath & Body Works, Inc. options does not derive from any single metric in isolation. The open interest history view above sits inside a broader read: ATM IV currently sits at 64.7% and dealer gamma exposure is negative, so dealer hedging amplifies directional moves. Combine the open interest history data here with the volatility-skew surface, dealer-gamma exposure, max-pain level, and upcoming-events calendar to build a positioning thesis. Risk-defined structures (credit spreads, debit spreads, iron condors) are usually safer than naked positions while the regime is uncertain; the data on this page anchors the inputs but does not by itself constitute a trade thesis.
How to read the BBWI open-interest data
The open-interest time-series above tracks the total Bath & Body Works, Inc. options inventory outstanding day by day. OI is a stock measure - the cumulative position count - so trends flag accumulating or distributing positioning. Current put/call ratio is 0.47, call-heavy - speculative or bullish positioning dominates. Total call OI of 30.7K versus put OI of 23.6K gives a put/call OI ratio of 0.77 - structurally a slower-moving signal than the volume-based ratio.
BBWI flow vs positioning
Volume tells you what flows happened today; OI tells you what positions accumulated. Both can move in opposite directions: rising volume with falling OI means contracts are being closed (covering); rising volume with rising OI means new positions are being opened. The combination matters more than either alone for reading sentiment. Combined with the current negative dealer-gamma regime, large OI clusters tend to act as price repellents that accelerate moves through key strikes.
Using BBWI OI/volume data alongside other surfaces
Per-strike OI is the input to dealer-gamma calculations: strikes with elevated call OI generate gamma walls that dealers must hedge into as spot approaches them. The gamma-exposure page combines this distribution with the dealers' assumed-long-gamma assumption to project hedge flow. Volume cross-checks recent positioning shifts in the chain that haven't yet shown up in cumulative OI. Pair both with the term-structure view on the volatility page to determine whether the activity is concentrated in near-dated event hedging or longer-dated structural positioning. Front-month expiration for BBWI sits at 28 days, so near-dated volume currently dominates the flow reading.
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Daily open-interest history for BBWI options over the last ~32 trading days. Each row reflects the end-of-day total OI summed across all listed strikes and expirations.
Most recent 15 trading days (descending). Older history appears in the chart above.
| Date | Call OI | Put OI | Total OI | P/C OI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2026 | 30.7K | 23.6K | 54.3K | 0.77 |
| Aug 13, 2026 | 29.5K | 22.8K | 52.3K | 0.77 |
| Aug 12, 2026 | 28.2K | 22.3K | 50.5K | 0.79 |
| Aug 11, 2026 | 26.9K | 21.5K | 48.4K | 0.80 |
| Aug 10, 2026 | 25.2K | 20.1K | 45.3K | 0.80 |
| Aug 7, 2026 | 28.1K | 20.4K | 48.6K | 0.73 |
| Aug 6, 2026 | 28.0K | 20.2K | 48.2K | 0.72 |
| Aug 5, 2026 | 27.7K | 20.1K | 47.9K | 0.72 |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 26.4K | 19.7K | 46.1K | 0.75 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | 25.2K | 19.3K | 44.5K | 0.77 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 24.5K | 19.8K | 44.3K | 0.81 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | 24.4K | 19.6K | 44.0K | 0.80 |
| Jul 29, 2026 | 24.1K | 19.4K | 43.5K | 0.81 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | 22.9K | 19.4K | 42.3K | 0.84 |
| Jul 27, 2026 | 21.5K | 18.7K | 40.2K | 0.87 |
BBWI highest open-interest contracts
| Type | Strike | Expiration | Volume | OI | IV | Bid | Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALL | $25.00 | Jun 17, 2027 | 500 | 166 | 56.5% | $2.00 | $2.25 |
Top 1 contracts from the institutional-grade nightly options scan; ranked by oi within the broader S&P 500/400/600 + ETF universe.
Frequently asked BBWI open interest history questions
- What is the current BBWI options open interest?
- As of Aug 14, 2026, Bath & Body Works, Inc. (BBWI) has 54.3K total contracts outstanding across all listed expirations, split as 30.7K calls and 23.6K puts. Open interest reflects accumulated positions from prior trading sessions; it does not include today's volume until end-of-day reconciliation.
- What is the BBWI put/call open interest ratio?
- Put/call OI ratio of 0.77 is balanced.
- What does BBWI open interest tell traders?
- Persistent OI growth indicates sustained directional or hedging interest; sharp drops typically mean post-expiration position cleanup. Heavy OI concentrations at specific strikes act as support and resistance levels because dealer hedging amplifies near those strikes - the gamma profile of the dealer book is concentrated there. Comparing today's volume to standing OI separates opening flow from closing flow.