Stock · EL · Consumer Defensive
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1995 · Revenue 12 mo. $15B
Price as of 11/06/2026
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products worldwide.
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products worldwide. The company provides 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 offers 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 color products, as well as sells ancillary products and services. The company provides 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, Smashbox, Darphin Paris, Lab Series, Avestan, Loopha, Origins, 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 based in New York, New York.
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Summary
39.9 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 €1.2B (2026), it supports €13.1B. The remaining €24.2B of the market value assume it grows 14.6% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
14.6%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 22.5×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 16.9× to 34.7×, median 25.9×.
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 → Q2 2026
7 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, FCF margin, Net debt, 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 | 4.78% | 12.35% | Rank 17 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 26.51% | 20.14% | Rank 62 |
| EBIT margin | 11.14% | 9.44% | Rank 58 |
| FCF margin | 8.74% | 6.71% | Rank 63 |
| Gross margin | 75.50% | 35.78% | Rank 98 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 5.05% | 2.12% | Rank 70 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | −43.64% | 5.20% | Rank 4 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | −42.29% | 6.07% | Rank 1 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 3.04% | 3.77% | Rank 31 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 0.45% | 4.25% | Rank 5 |
| FCF yield | 3.17% | 5.05% | Rank 23 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 3.14 | 1.51 | Rank 21 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 28.22 | 16.74 | Rank 18 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 15.78% | 3.24% | Rank 71 |
| Share price, 6 months | 28.16% | 11.30% | Rank 93 |
| Share price, 3 months | 29.70% | 9.00% | Rank 99 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −7.98% | −7.96% | Rank 48 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −5.56% | −0.99% | Rank 86 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 1.31% | −0.62% | Rank 5 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 5 | Rank 7 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 16.07% | 0.22% | Rank 100 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 19.26% | 41.95% | Rank 13 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 3.49 | 1.96 | Rank 14 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 2.43 | 0.67 | Rank 11 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 47.73% | 25.82% | Rank 1 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 11.8 | 14.4% | $1.3B | 373M | $2.4B |
| 2018 | 13.7 | 15.0% | $1.9B | 376M | $1.4B |
| 2019 | 14.9 | 15.6% | $1.8B | 370M | $425.0M |
| 2020 | 14.3 | 4.2% | $1.7B | 367M | $3.8B |
| 2021 | 16.2 | 16.2% | $3.0B | 368M | $3.1B |
| 2022 | 17.7 | 17.9% | $2.0B | 365M | $3.7B |
| 2023 | 15.9 | 9.5% | −$1.6B | 361M | $6.1B |
| 2024 | 15.6 | 6.2% | $1.4B | 361M | $6.4B |
| 2025 | 14.3 | 8.0% | $670.0M | 360M | $6.5B |
| 2026 | 15.0 | 11.1% | $1.3B | 365M | $5.7B |
2 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Estee Lauder Companies Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Estee Lauder Companies Inc 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 Estee Lauder Companies Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 220.6 | 22.8 |
| P/B ratio | 10.5 | 2.6 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 4.8% | 12.3% |
| Equity ratio | 19.3% | 42.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 2.43 | 0.67 |
| Dividend yield | 1.3% | 2.6% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| EL | Estee Lauder Companies Incthis page | |
| KVUE | Kenvue Inc. | locked |
| KMB | Kimberly-Clark Corporation | Low4.5 |
| CHD | Church & Dwight Company Inc | Medium5.5 |
| CLX | The Clorox Company | locked |
| CL | Colgate-Palmolive Company | locked |
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