e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 3.360-3.410 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 3.410. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.3 billion-$1.3 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.3 billion. e.l.f. Beauty also updated its FY25 guidance to $3.36-$3.41 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts recently commented on ELF shares. Stifel Nicolaus upped their price target on shares of e.l.f. Beauty from $151.00 to $161.00 and gave the company a hold rating in a research note on Monday, July 22nd. Canaccord Genuity Group boosted their price target on e.l.f. Beauty from $214.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a buy rating in a research note on Tuesday, June 18th. Piper Sandler restated an overweight rating and set a $260.00 price objective (up previously from $258.00) on shares of e.l.f. Beauty in a research note on Friday. Truist Financial upped their target price on e.l.f. Beauty from $200.00 to $210.00 and gave the company a buy rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 29th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on shares of e.l.f. Beauty from $182.00 to $224.00 and gave the stock an overweight rating in a research report on Monday, July 22nd. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating, eleven have assigned a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of Moderate Buy and a consensus target price of $217.64.

e.l.f. Beauty Trading Down 14.3 %

Shares of NYSE ELF traded down $26.82 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $161.13. The stock had a trading volume of 7,399,280 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,625,412. e.l.f. Beauty has a twelve month low of $88.47 and a twelve month high of $221.83. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $191.26 and its 200 day moving average price is $182.20. The firm has a market cap of $9.01 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 72.58, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.66 and a beta of 1.46. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25, a quick ratio of 0.95 and a current ratio of 1.60.

e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, August 8th. The company reported $0.87 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.67 by $0.20. e.l.f. Beauty had a return on equity of 26.64% and a net margin of 12.47%. The company had revenue of $324.48 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $303.60 million. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that e.l.f. Beauty will post 2.84 EPS for the current year.

Insider Transactions at e.l.f. Beauty

In other e.l.f. Beauty news, CEO Tarang Amin sold 548 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $175.00, for a total value of $95,900.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 214,507 shares in the company, valued at $37,538,725. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. In other e.l.f. Beauty news, CEO Tarang Amin sold 548 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $175.00, for a total value of $95,900.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 214,507 shares in the company, valued at $37,538,725. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, insider Jennifer Catherine Hartnett sold 9,808 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $184.96, for a total value of $1,814,087.68. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 61,647 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $11,402,229.12. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 97,390 shares of company stock valued at $18,264,873 in the last quarter. 5.20% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

About e.l.f. Beauty

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides cosmetic and skin care products under the e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. Skin, Well People, and Keys Soulcare brand names worldwide. The company offers eye, lip, face, face, paw, and skin care products. It sells its products through national and international retailers and direct-to-consumer channels, which include e-commerce platforms in the United States, and internationally primarily through distributors.