Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) Issues Q3 Earnings Guidance

Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) updated its third quarter earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.20 to $0.30 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.63. The company issued revenue guidance of -12 to -10% yr/yr or $3.467 billion to $3.546 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.67 billion. Estée Lauder Companies also updated its Q3 2025 guidance to 0.200-0.300 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on the stock. CICC Research assumed coverage on shares of Estée Lauder Companies in a research note on Friday, December 27th. They set a “market perform” rating and a $82.00 price target on the stock. Canaccord Genuity Group cut their price objective on Estée Lauder Companies from $100.00 to $75.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a report on Friday, November 1st. Morgan Stanley cut their price objective on Estée Lauder Companies from $100.00 to $85.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Friday, November 1st. UBS Group lifted their price objective on Estée Lauder Companies from $74.00 to $80.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, January 16th. Finally, Bank of America cut their price objective on Estée Lauder Companies from $100.00 to $75.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Friday, November 1st. Twenty analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $92.95.

Estée Lauder Companies Trading Down 15.9 %

NYSE:EL traded down $13.15 on Tuesday, hitting $69.62. 15,146,233 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,786,168. The stock has a market capitalization of $24.99 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 123.95, a P/E/G ratio of 5.89 and a beta of 1.03. Estée Lauder Companies has a 52 week low of $62.29 and a 52 week high of $159.75. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.44, a quick ratio of 0.90 and a current ratio of 1.32. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $77.29 and its 200 day moving average price is $83.73.

Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 4th. The company reported $0.62 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.32 by $0.30. The firm had revenue of $4 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $3.98 billion. Estée Lauder Companies had a return on equity of 17.31% and a net margin of 1.31%. The company’s quarterly revenue was down 6.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.88 EPS. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Estée Lauder Companies will post 1.5 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Transactions at Estée Lauder Companies

In other Estée Lauder Companies news, Director Paul J. Fribourg acquired 75,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 18th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of $64.93 per share, for a total transaction of $4,902,215.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 310,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $20,128,300. This trade represents a 32.20 % increase in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Corporate insiders own 12.78% of the company’s stock.

Estée Lauder Companies Company Profile

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc manufactures, markets, and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products worldwide. It offers skin care products, including moisturizers, serums, cleansers, toners, body care, exfoliators, acne care and oil correctors, facial masks, and sun care products; and makeup products, such as lipsticks, lip glosses, mascaras, foundations, eyeshadows, and powders, as well as compacts, brushes, and other makeup tools.