EL
Estée Lauder Companies (The)
Consumer Staples · Personal Care Products · US
$83.49
Data: 2025-06-30
✗ ETHICAL FAIL

WEAK MOAT
HIGH
Data Confidence: 100.0%
Key Metrics

How this company measures up on the fundamentals that matter

Market Cap
$31.2B
Total market value of the company
27.30
Based on estimated future earnings — lower means cheaper
Rev Growth
+4.6%
Year-over-year revenue change
Profit Margin
0.0%
How much profit the company keeps from each dollar of revenue
-5.9%
Return on equity — how efficiently it uses shareholder money
Analyst Target
$94.64
+13% from current price — median analyst estimate
Recommendation
BUY
Consensus view from 22 analysts covering this stock
About Estée Lauder Companies (The)

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products worldwide. The company offers skin care products, including moisturizers, serums, cleansers, toners, eye care, body care, exfoliators, acne care and oil correctors, facial masks, and sun care products; and makeup products, such as foundations, powders, concealers and setting sprays, lipsticks, lip liners and lip glosses, mascaras, and eyeshadows and eyeliners, as well as compacts, brushes, and other makeup tools. It also provides fragrance products in various forms comprising parfum, eau de parfum, eau de toilette, eau de cologne, and body spray, as well as lotions, creams, powders, candles and soaps; and hair care products, including shampoos, conditioners, styling products, treatment, finishing sprays, and hair colour products, as well as sells ancillary products and services. The company offers its products under the La Mer, Jo Malone London, TOM FORD, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, KILIAN PARIS, BALMAIN Beauty, Estée Lauder, Clinique, M·A·C, The Ordinary, Aveda, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, Bumble and bumble, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, Smashbox, Darphin Paris, Lab Series, NIOD, Aramis, and GLAMGLOW brands. It sells its products through department stores, duty-free retailers, specialty multi retailers, online pure players, upscale perfumeries and pharmacies, and top-tier salons and spas, as well as direct-to-consumer businesses across freestanding stores, and brand websites and third-party online platforms. The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

https://www.elcompanies.com

Country: United States Employees: 40,470 Industry: Household & Personal Products
Ethical Screening

Five compliance checks based on AAOIFI standards — all must pass for ethical clearance

Business Activity
PASS
Core business does not involve prohibited activities
Debt Ratio
47.6% FAIL
Debt must be below 33% of total assets
Cash Ratio
0.0% PASS
Interest-bearing cash below 33% of assets
Receivables
22.4% PASS
Receivables below 49% of assets
Revenue Purity
0.8% PASS
Non-compliant revenue below 5% — any excess requires purification
Valuation
$63.00
What our model estimates this business is worth per share
-32.5%
Trading above fair value — no margin of safety
Rating
AVOID
Overall assessment combining ethics, valuation, and quality
17.1th
Ranks in the top 83% of our 13,571 screened universe
Ethical Score
10.0
Valuation Score
44.5
Quality Score
25.0
Combined
29.4

Trading at $86, 37% above fair value of $63. Fails ethical screen (Debt ratio). Ranks better than 0% of screened stocks.

Quantitative Intelligence

Statistical analysis of price behaviour, risk, and market regime — independent of fundamental data

MARKUP
Price trending up with increasing momentum
-0.094
Returns do not compensate for the risk — negative edge
-0.0086
No positive edge detected — the data suggests staying out
-0.263
Drawdown risk outweighs the returns — higher risk profile
Annual Return
-15.6%
Historical annualised return based on price data
-59.4%
Largest peak-to-trough decline — the worst it has been
SIDEWAYS
Price consolidating — no clear directional bias
Days in State
24
How long the current regime has persisted — longer means more stable
Market Data

Trading characteristics and market positioning

1.21
Moves slightly more than the broader market
52W High
$121.64
31% below the year high
52W Low
$62.57
33% above the year low
Avg Volume
4,480,346
Average daily shares traded — higher means easier to buy and sell
1.8
Days it would take all short sellers to cover — higher means more crowded
Short % Float
3.5%
Low short interest — limited bearish positioning
162.0%
Annual dividend as a percentage of the share price
$-0.70
Earnings per share over the last 12 months
Financial Health

Balance sheet strength and cash generation — the foundation of long-term value

2.33
Heavy leverage — higher financial risk if revenues decline
1.27
Adequate but worth monitoring
Quick Ratio
0.82
Like current ratio but excludes inventory — stricter test
Gross Margin
74.7%
Revenue left after cost of goods — higher means pricing power
Operating Margin
14.9%
Profit from core operations before interest and tax
$1.8B
Positive — the business generates more cash than it spends
Revenue (TTM)
$14.8B
Total revenue over the last 12 months
Net Income
$-248,000,000
Loss-making — spending exceeds revenue after all costs
Analyst Coverage
Analysts
22
Target High
$125.00
Target Median
$94.64
Target Low
$70.00
Recent Insider Activity

SEC Form 4 filings — what company insiders are buying and selling

55
NEUTRAL
Mixed insider activity. 0 purchases and 0 sales in the last 90 days — no clear directional signal. Politicians have been buying this name.
Date Insider Title Type Shares Value
2026-02-27 DE LA FAVERIE STEPHANE Chief Executive Officer 5,787
2026-02-27 SHRIVASTAVA AKHIL Chief Financial Officer 5,265
2025-11-26 LAUDER JANE A Director and Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security 17,840 $1,596,145
2025-11-26 LA LANDE RASHIDA K General Counsel 1,604 $151,498
2025-11-26 LAUDER JANE A Director and Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security 17,840 $1,683,739
2025-11-18 WEBSTER MERIDITH P Officer 5,430 $476,971
2025-11-11 STERNLICHT BARRY S Director 3,972 $335,038
2025-11-11 STERNLICHT BARRY S Director 3,972 $364,749
2025-11-06 LAL 2015 ELF TRUST Trustee 5,670,000 $508,599,000
2025-11-06 EVELYN H. LAUDER 2012 MARITAL TRUST TWO Trustee 2,845,283 $255,221,885
Source: SEC Form 4 filings via public data. View all insider activity at
Insider Intelligence
Political Trading Activity

Congressional trading disclosures involving this instrument

Date Politician Party Type Amount
9 Apr2026 Scott Peters Democrat sell 500K–1M
8 May2026 Dave McCormick Republican buy 500K–1M
8 Apr2026 Richard Blumenthal Democrat sell 1K–15K
8 Apr2026 Richard Blumenthal Democrat sell 1K–15K
7 May2026 Tim Moore Republican buy 1K–15K
Source: Congressional disclosure filings. View all political trades at
Insider Intelligence
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