Stock · OR.PA · Consumer Defensive
France · Large Cap · Revenue 2025 €44.1B
Price as of 11/06/2026
L'Oréal S.A., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cosmetic products for women and men in Europe, North America, North Asia, South Asia Pacific, the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.
L'Oréal S.A., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cosmetic products for women and men in Europe, North America, North Asia, South Asia Pacific, the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. It operates through four divisions: Professional Products, Consumer Products, Luxe, and Dermatological Beauty. The company offers skincare, make-up, hair colourant, haircare, perfume, and hygiene products. It provides its products under the L'Oréal Paris, Garnier, Maybelline New York, NYX Professional Makeup, Stylenanda, Essie, Dark & Lovely, Mixa, Niely, L'Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Redken, Matrix, Pureology, Lancôme, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, Armani Beauty, Kiehl's, Helena Rubinstein, Aesop, Biotherm, Valentino, Prada, Shu Uemura, IT Cosmetics, Mugler, Ralph Lauren, Urban Decay, Azzaro, Maison Margiela, Viktor&Rolf, Takami, La RochePosay, CeraVe, Vichy, SkinCeuticals, Skinbetter Science, and other brand names. The company sells its products through distribution channels, such as hair salons, local stores, e-commerce, travel retail, mass market retail, department store perfumeries, pharmacies, drug stores, medi-spas, and free-standing stores. L'Oréal S.A. was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Clichy, France.
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Summary
61.5 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 €7.2B (2025), it supports €79.6B. The remaining €160.6B of the market value assume it grows 15.4% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
15.4%
no growth afterwards
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q3 2025 → Q3 2026
1 more unchanged: Shares outstanding
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 | 17.53% | 12.35% | Rank 69 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 69.98% | 20.14% | Rank 88 |
| EBIT margin | 20.19% | 9.44% | Rank 86 |
| FCF margin | 16.26% | 6.71% | Rank 88 |
| Gross margin | 74.32% | 35.78% | Rank 97 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 1.30% | 2.12% | Rank 41 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 2.54% | 5.20% | Rank 44 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 12.52% | 6.07% | Rank 72 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 3.39% | 3.77% | Rank 43 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.54% | 4.25% | Rank 20 |
| FCF yield | 2.98% | 5.05% | Rank 20 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 5.50 | 1.51 | Rank 7 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 27.24 | 16.74 | Rank 21 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 17.37% | 3.24% | Rank 75 |
| Share price, 6 months | 24.40% | 11.30% | Rank 86 |
| Share price, 3 months | 21.69% | 9.00% | Rank 92 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −1.27% | −7.96% | Rank 85 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −1.90% | −0.99% | Rank 62 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −0.13% | −0.62% | Rank 41 |
| Dividend streak in years | 35 | 5 | Rank 94 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −0.92% | 0.22% | Rank 35 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 56.54% | 41.95% | Rank 82 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 0.19 | 1.96 | Rank 79 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.34 | 0.67 | Rank 76 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 25.22% | 25.82% | Rank 60 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, €B | EBIT margin | FCF, €B | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 24.9 | 18.1% | 3.4 | 565M | −€481.4M |
| 2017 | 26.0 | 18.0% | 3.9 | 564M | −€1.9B |
| 2018 | 26.9 | 18.3% | 3.9 | 563M | −€2.8B |
| 2019 | 29.9 | 18.6% | 5.0 | 563M | −€2.4B |
| 2020 | 28.0 | 18.6% | 5.5 | 562M | −€3.9B |
| 2021 | 32.3 | 19.1% | 5.7 | 560M | €3.6B |
| 2022 | 38.3 | 19.5% | 4.9 | 538M | €3.0B |
| 2023 | 41.2 | 19.8% | 6.1 | 537M | €4.4B |
| 2024 | 43.5 | 20.0% | 6.6 | 536M | €4.4B |
| 2025 | 44.1 | 20.2% | 7.2 | 535M | €2.1B |
3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
LOréal S.A. mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
LOréal 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.
3 of 7 rules met
5 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for LOréal S.A.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 39.3 | 22.8 |
| P/B ratio | 6.9 | 2.6 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 17.5% | 12.3% |
| Equity ratio | 56.5% | 42.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.34 | 0.67 |
| Dividend yield | 1.6% | 2.6% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| OR.PA | LOréal S.A.this page | |
| PG | Procter & Gamble Company | Low4.5 |
| ULVR.L | Unilever PLC | locked |
| CL | Colgate-Palmolive Company | Low4.5 |
| HINDUNILVR.NS | Hindustan Unilever Limited | locked |
| RKT.L | Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC | locked |
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