Stock · EL.PA · Healthcare
France · Large Cap · Revenue 12 mo. €29.3B
Price as of 11/06/2026
EssilorLuxottica Société anonyme designs, manufactures, and distributes ophthalmic lenses, frames, sunglasses, and instruments and equipment in North America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific.
EssilorLuxottica Société anonyme designs, manufactures, and distributes ophthalmic lenses, frames, sunglasses, and instruments and equipment in North America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific. It offers lens, eyewear, contact lenses, reading glasses under Essilor, Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest, Xperio, Transitions, Ray-Ban, Oakley, Barberini, KODAK Lens, Nikon, Shamir Optical, eyexpert, iWear, Humanware, Optifog, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear, Arnette, Alain Mikli, Costa, Bliz, Native Eyewear and Bolon, and Foster Grant brands. The company also provides vision assessment, eye pathology diagnosis and treatment, finishing equipment, fitting parameter measurement, small tools, and consumables. In addition, it offers SPECTRALIS, a multimodal imaging platform for diagnosis and treatment; RetinAI; Espansione Group; Cellview Imaging; ANTERION, a multidisciplinary all-in-one anterior segment imaging solution for measurements; apparel, footwear and accessories; and high-tech equipment for optical surfacing, polishing, measuring, coating, and finishing, as well as consumables, tools, and services under the Satisloh brand. Further, the company designs, develops, markets, and maintains diagnostics, refraction, lens edging and mounting instruments for opticians and prescription laboratories, and measurement; and optometry instruments for eyecare professionals, schools, occupational medicine centers, military, and other institutions. It sells its products to independent opticians, distributors, third-party e-commerce platforms, and large retail chains in the eyecare and eyewear industry; and consumers through the network of brick and mortar retail networks and its online channels. The company was formerly known as Essilor International Société Anonyme and changed its name to EssilorLuxottica Société anonyme in October 2018. EssilorLuxottica Société anonyme was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
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Summary
43.3 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €3.8B (2025), it supports €41.8B. The remaining €45.8B of the market value assume it grows 10.3% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
10.3%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 17.0×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 13 quarters: 17.6× to 22.3×, median 19.5×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q3 2026
6 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, FCF margin, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 5.95% | 11.52% | Rank 20 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 38.15% | 32.55% | Rank 60 |
| EBIT margin | 12.11% | 18.31% | Rank 31 |
| FCF margin | 13.22% | 14.12% | Rank 46 |
| Gross margin | 60.56% | 60.99% | Rank 49 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 7.48% | 8.04% | Rank 49 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 1.05% | 5.44% | Rank 37 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 91.47% | 7.00% | Rank 99 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 5.35% | 3.66% | Rank 67 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.57% | 2.90% | Rank 39 |
| FCF yield | 4.30% | 3.63% | Rank 58 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 3.46 | 4.03 | Rank 55 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 28.53 | 21.73 | Rank 32 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −47.63% | 8.66% | Rank 4 |
| Share price, 6 months | 13.55% | 24.27% | Rank 33 |
| Share price, 3 months | 17.61% | 15.42% | Rank 57 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −39.57% | −7.35% | Rank 5 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −0.53% | 0.30% | Rank 58 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 1.01% | 0.00% | Rank 14 |
| Dividend streak in years | 4 | 10 | Rank 46 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −4.25% | 0.05% | Rank 17 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 60.86% | 48.40% | Rank 69 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 1.66 | 1.11 | Rank 39 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.37 | 0.48 | Rank 57 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 33.84% | 31.42% | Rank 43 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, €B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7.1 | 17.9% | €900.0M | 219M | €2.1B |
| 2017 | 9.2 | 18.2% | €939.0M | 221M | €740.0M |
| 2018 | 10.8 | 14.0% | €1.6B | 266M | €3.9B |
| 2019 | 17.4 | 12.0% | €2.4B | 441M | €4.6B |
| 2020 | 14.4 | 5.0% | €2.3B | 439M | €7.2B |
| 2021 | 19.8 | 13.0% | €3.5B | 445M | €11.4B |
| 2022 | 24.5 | 13.3% | €3.2B | 446M | €10.4B |
| 2023 | 25.4 | 12.5% | €3.3B | 451M | €9.1B |
| 2024 | 26.5 | 13.0% | €3.4B | 460M | €11.0B |
| 2025 | 28.5 | 12.1% | €3.8B | 465M | €10.9B |
2 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
EssilorLuxottica S. A. mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
EssilorLuxottica S. A. is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
2 of 7 rules met
4 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for EssilorLuxottica S. A.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 38.9 | 30.0 |
| P/B ratio | 2.3 | 4.8 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 6.0% | 11.5% |
| Equity ratio | 60.9% | 48.4% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.37 | 0.48 |
| Dividend yield | 2.1% | 1.3% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| EL.PA | EssilorLuxottica S. A.this page | |
| BDX | Becton Dickinson and Company | Low2.7 |
| 7741.T | Hoya Cor | locked |
| MDLN | Medline Inc. Class A Common Stock | locked |
| ALC.SW | Alcon AG | locked |
| RMD | ResMed Inc | locked |
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