Estée Lauder Companies (EL) Stock Price, News & Analysis

25 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Estée Lauder Companies in the last year. There are currently 15 hold ratings, 9 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" EL shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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25 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Estée Lauder Companies' shares. Their EL share price targets range from $118.00 to $290.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $168.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.3% from the stock's current price.
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Estée Lauder Companies' stock was trading at $146.25 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, EL shares have decreased by 7.6% and is now trading at $135.15.
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Estée Lauder Companies saw a decrease in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 5,230,000 shares, a decrease of 11.2% from the March 15th total of 5,890,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,760,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.9 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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Estée Lauder Companies will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 1st at 9:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE:EL) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, February, 5th. The company reported $0.88 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.55 by $0.33. The company had revenue of $4.28 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.19 billion. Estée Lauder Companies had a net margin of 3.08% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.78%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 7.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $1.54 earnings per share.
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Estée Lauder Companies announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 5th. Investors of record on Thursday, February 29th will be given a dividend of $0.66 per share on Friday, March 15th. This represents a $2.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.95%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, February 28th.
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Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.90%. The dividend payout ratio is 203.08%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, EL will have a dividend payout ratio of 62.86% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) stock in their portfolio include ALPS Global Travel Beneficiaries ETF (JRNY), Natixis Vaughan Nelson Select ETF (VNSE), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF (RSPS), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF (RHS), VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT), BNY Mellon Women's Opportunities ETF (BKWO), AI Quality Growth ETF (AQGX) and Akros Monthly Payout ETF (MPAY).

Estée Lauder Companies updated its third quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Monday, February, 5th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.360-0.460 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.830. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.9 billion-$3.9 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.9 billion.

819 employees have rated Estée Lauder Companies Chief Executive Officer Fabrizio Freda on Glassdoor.com. Fabrizio Freda has an approval rating of 93% among the company's employees. This puts Fabrizio Freda in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Estée Lauder Companies investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), NIKE (NKE), Mastercard (MA), Visa (V), AT&T (T), Boeing (BA), Salesforce (CRM), Intel (INTC) and Starbucks (SBUX).

Estée Lauder Companies' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.05%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.03%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Czech National Bank (0.01%), Salvus Wealth Management LLC (0.01%) and Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Barry S Sternlicht, Carl P Haney, Charlene Barshefsky, Fabrizio Freda, Hudis Jane Hertzmark, Irvine O Hockaday, Jr, Jane Lauder, Jason Gesing, Jennifer Hyman, John Demsey, Lal Family Partners Lp, Lynn Forester, Michael O'hare, Richard D Parsons, Ronald S Lauder, Rose Marie Bravo, Sara E Moss, Tracey Thomas Travis, Wei Sun Christianson, William P Lauder and Zinterhofer Aerin Lauder Trust.
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Shares of EL stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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