Compare Stocks: EL, M, ULTA, ELF, and COTY

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
COTY Coty	$2.80 +1.6%	$2.24	$1.82 ▼ $5.08	$2.42B	0.99	9.53 million shs	16.13 million shs
EL Estee Lauder Companies	$84.71 +1.0%	$84.03	$66.22 ▼ $121.64	$30.35B	1.25	2.17 million shs	1.89 million shs
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	$82.76 -0.2%	$68.54	$48.82 ▼ $150.99	$4.89B	1.58	2.26 million shs	2.54 million shs
M Macy's	$25.97 +4.6%	$23.63	$11.77 ▼ $26.15	$6.53B	1.47	4.77 million shs	4.93 million shs
ULTA Ulta Beauty	$534.41 +4.2%	$477.88	$443.60 ▼ $714.97	$22.05B	0.87	546,693 shs	977,512 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
COTY Coty	+1.45%	+2.95%	+21.79%	+9.22%	-40.78%
EL Estee Lauder Companies	+1.09%	+1.74%	+1.04%	+2.17%	-6.88%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	-0.28%	-1.45%	+8.57%	+39.29%	-29.03%
M Macy's	+4.77%	+4.16%	+11.81%	+34.54%	+110.26%
ULTA Ulta Beauty	+4.21%	+11.22%	+15.84%	+0.35%	+5.25%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
COTY Coty	$2.80 +1.6%	$2.24	$1.82 ▼ $5.08	$2.42B	0.99	9.53 million shs	16.13 million shs
EL Estee Lauder Companies	$84.71 +1.0%	$84.03	$66.22 ▼ $121.64	$30.35B	1.25	2.17 million shs	1.89 million shs
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	$82.76 -0.2%	$68.54	$48.82 ▼ $150.99	$4.89B	1.58	2.26 million shs	2.54 million shs
M Macy's	$25.97 +4.6%	$23.63	$11.77 ▼ $26.15	$6.53B	1.47	4.77 million shs	4.93 million shs
ULTA Ulta Beauty	$534.41 +4.2%	$477.88	$443.60 ▼ $714.97	$22.05B	0.87	546,693 shs	977,512 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
COTY Coty	+1.45%	+2.95%	+21.79%	+9.22%	-40.78%
EL Estee Lauder Companies	+1.09%	+1.74%	+1.04%	+2.17%	-6.88%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	-0.28%	-1.45%	+8.57%	+39.29%	-29.03%
M Macy's	+4.77%	+4.16%	+11.81%	+34.54%	+110.26%
ULTA Ulta Beauty	+4.21%	+11.22%	+15.84%	+0.35%	+5.25%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
COTY Coty	1.88	Reduce	$3.70	32.51% Upside
EL Estee Lauder Companies	2.38	Hold	$96.95	14.45% Upside
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	2.56	Moderate Buy	$79.75	-3.64% Downside
M Macy's	2.21	Hold	$21.70	-16.43% Downside
ULTA Ulta Beauty	2.74	Moderate Buy	$638.09	19.40% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest EL, M, ULTA, ELF, and COTY Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
7/31/2026	EL Estee Lauder Companies	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Sell (D)
7/30/2026	ELF e.l.f. Beauty	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Sell (D) ➝ Sell (D+)
7/28/2026	ELF e.l.f. Beauty	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$72.00 ➝ $100.00
7/28/2026	EL Estee Lauder Companies	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold	$80.00 ➝ $88.00
7/27/2026	ELF e.l.f. Beauty	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$95.00
7/27/2026	M Macy's	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold ➝ Strong-Buy
7/21/2026	M Macy's	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C+) ➝ Buy (B-)
7/21/2026	ELF e.l.f. Beauty	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$65.00 ➝ $85.00
7/21/2026	ULTA Ulta Beauty	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy
7/21/2026	EL Estee Lauder Companies	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold	$85.00 ➝ $90.00
7/21/2026	EL Estee Lauder Companies	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight	$75.00 ➝ $80.00

(Data available from 8/4/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
COTY Coty	$5.79B	0.43	$0.72 per share	3.86	$4.26 per share	0.66
EL Estee Lauder Companies	$14.33B	2.14	$3.85 per share	21.99	$10.74 per share	7.89
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	$1.64B	2.98	$3.35 per share	24.71	$19.15 per share	4.32
M Macy's	$22.62B	0.30	$6.08 per share	4.27	$18.28 per share	1.42
ULTA Ulta Beauty	$12.39B	1.85	$34.17 per share	15.64	$63.19 per share	8.46

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
COTY Coty	-$367.90M	-$0.62	N/A	8.22	0.79	-9.20%	4.59%	1.47%	8/19/2026 (Estimated)
EL Estee Lauder Companies	-$1.13B	-$0.70	N/A	26.64	0.65	-1.67%	20.66%	4.15%	8/19/2026 (Estimated)
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	$26.32M	$0.46	179.92	30.43	3.24	1.61%	11.02%	5.59%	8/5/2026 (Estimated)
M Macy's	$642M	$2.42	10.73	11.14	N/A	2.94%	13.68%	3.88%	9/2/2026 (Estimated)
ULTA Ulta Beauty	$1.15B	$26.67	20.04	16.73	1.60	9.36%	44.77%	17.27%	8/27/2026 (Estimated)

Latest EL, M, ULTA, ELF, and COTY Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/27/2026	Q2 2027	ULTA Ulta Beauty	$6.17	N/A	N/A	N/A	$2.98 billion	N/A
8/19/2026	Q4 2026	COTY Coty	-$0.0065	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.19 billion	N/A
8/19/2026	Q4 2026	EL Estee Lauder Companies	$0.3197	N/A	N/A	N/A	$3.55 billion	N/A
8/5/2026	Q1 2027	ELF e.l.f. Beauty	$0.7180	N/A	N/A	N/A	$433.97 million	N/A
6/3/2026	Q1 2026	M Macy's	$0.02	$0.13	+$0.11	$0.23	$4.61 billion	$4.89 billion
6/2/2026	Q1 2027	ULTA Ulta Beauty	$6.89	$7.74	+$0.85	$7.74	$3.12 billion	$3.16 billion
5/20/2026	Q4 2026	ELF e.l.f. Beauty	$0.29	$0.32	+$0.03	-$0.82	$423.06 million	$449.29 million
5/5/2026	Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks	COTY Coty	$0.0010	-$0.03	-$0.0310	-$0.47	$1.27 billion	$1.28 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
COTY Coty	$0.50	17.89%	-100.00%	N/A	N/A
EL Estee Lauder Companies	$1.40	1.65%	+4.23%	N/A	N/A
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
M Macy's	$0.77	2.97%	+13.95%	31.82%	4 Years
ULTA Ulta Beauty	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest EL, M, ULTA, ELF, and COTY Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/15/2026	M Macy's	quarterly	$0.1915	3.11%	6/15/2026	6/15/2026	7/1/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
COTY Coty	0.97	0.82	0.49
EL Estee Lauder Companies	1.71	1.27	0.94
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	0.72	2.35	1.69
M Macy's	0.50	1.48	0.44
ULTA Ulta Beauty	N/A	1.31	0.28

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
COTY Coty	42.36%
EL Estee Lauder Companies	55.15%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	92.44%
M Macy's	87.36%
ULTA Ulta Beauty	90.39%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
COTY Coty	5.90%
EL Estee Lauder Companies	13.05%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	3.50%
M Macy's	1.05%
ULTA Ulta Beauty	0.20%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
COTY Coty	11,636	880.47 million	828.52 million	Optionable
EL Estee Lauder Companies	57,000	361.80 million	314.58 million	Optionable
ELF e.l.f. Beauty	300	58.94 million	56.87 million	Optionable
M Macy's	90,134	263.04 million	260.28 million	Optionable
ULTA Ulta Beauty	65,000	42.99 million	42.90 million	Optionable

EL, M, ULTA, ELF, and COTY Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

14 beauty brands expanding distribution

3 hours ago | drugstorenews.comD

New beauty launches for makeup and skin care lovers: Pacsun x Ulta, NARS and more

3 hours ago | aol.comA

CAVA Appoints Amiee Bayer-Thomas to Board of Directors

August 3 at 3:05 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Adagio Medical Treats First Patient with Faster, Single-Freeze Next-Generation ULTA System

August 3 at 9:00 AM | businesswire.com

Rathbones Group PLC Grows Holdings in Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA

August 3 at 5:59 AM | marketbeat.com

Edgestream Partners L.P. Purchases Shares of 3,631 Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA

August 3 at 3:52 AM | marketbeat.com

Bank of America Corp DE Has $312.63 Million Stake in Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA

August 3 at 3:43 AM | marketbeat.com

Ulta Beauty Inc. (NASDAQ:ULTA) Given Average Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" by Brokerages

August 3 at 2:28 AM | marketbeat.com

Royal Bank of Canada Sells 5,316 Shares of Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA

August 2 at 5:20 AM | marketbeat.com

Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA Shares Sold by Summitry LLC

August 1 at 6:55 AM | marketbeat.com

Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA Shares Sold by Glenmede Trust Co. NA

August 1 at 4:55 AM | marketbeat.com

California State Teachers Retirement System Sells 2,569 Shares of Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA

August 1 at 4:32 AM | marketbeat.com

First Trust Advisors LP Lowers Stock Holdings in Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA

August 1 at 4:01 AM | marketbeat.com

Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership Acquires 17,075 Shares of Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA

August 1 at 3:25 AM | marketbeat.com

Pacsun Kicks Off Back-to-School Shopping in NYC; Teases Ulta Collaboration

July 31, 2026 | wwd.comW

Who is Ulta Beauty partnering with? See details

July 31, 2026 | msn.com

Investors Heavily Search Ulta Beauty Inc. (ULTA): Here is What You Need to Know

July 31, 2026 | zacks.com

Boothe Investment Group Inc. Trims Stake in Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA

July 31, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Amundi Boosts Stock Position in Ulta Beauty Inc. $ULTA

July 31, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Dibs Beauty launches dual-ended Edit Stick concealer at Ulta Beauty

July 30, 2026 | msn.com

After break with Target, popular beauty brand finds new partner

July 30, 2026 | mlive.comM

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EL, M, ULTA, ELF, and COTY Company Descriptions

Coty NYSE:COTY

$2.80 +0.05 (+1.64%)

Closing price 08/3/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$2.80 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 04:01 AM Eastern

Coty Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells beauty products worldwide. It operates through Prestige and Consumer Beauty segments. The company provides fragrance, color cosmetics, and skin and body care products. It offers Prestige segment products primarily through prestige retailers, including perfumeries, department stores, e-retailers, direct-to-consumer websites, and duty-free shops under the Burberry, Calvin Klein, Chloe, Davidoff, Escada, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Jil Sander, Joop!, Kylie Jenner, Lancaster, Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Orveda, philosophy, SKKN BY KIM, and Tiffany & Co. brands. The company provides Consumer Beauty segment products primarily through hypermarkets, supermarkets, drug stores, pharmacies, mid-tier department stores, traditional food and drug retailers, and e-commerce retailers under the Adidas, Beckham, Biocolor, Bozzano, Bourjois, Bruno Banani, CoverGirl, Jovan, Max Factor, Mexx, Monange, Nautica, Paixao, Rimmel, Risque, and Sally Hansen brands. It also sells its products through third-party distributors. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Coty Inc. is a subsidiary of JAB Beauty B.V.

Estee Lauder Companies NYSE:EL

$84.71 +0.81 (+0.96%)

Closing price 08/3/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$85.59 +0.89 (+1.05%)

As of 04:11 AM Eastern

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. The company also provides fragrance products in various forms comprising eau de parfum sprays and colognes, as well as lotions, powders, creams, 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. It offers its products under the Estée Lauder, Clinique, Origins, M·A·C, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, La Mer, Aveda, Jo Malone London, TOM FORD, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, and The Ordinary brands. The company sells its products through department stores, specialty-multi retailers, upscale perfumeries and pharmacies, and salons and spas; freestanding stores; its own and authorized retailer websites; third-party online malls; stores in airports; and duty-free locations. The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

e.l.f. Beauty NYSE:ELF

$82.76 -0.13 (-0.15%)

Closing price 08/3/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$82.65 -0.11 (-0.14%)

As of 04:38 AM Eastern

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of inclusive, accessible, clean, vegan and cruelty free cosmetics and skin care products. The company focuses on the e-commerce, national retailers and international business channels. Its brands include elf, elf skin, WELL People and KEYS soulcare. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Macy's NYSE:M

$25.97 +1.15 (+4.62%)

Closing price 08/3/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$26.20 +0.23 (+0.89%)

As of 04:48 AM Eastern

Macy's, Inc. engages in the retail of apparel, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings, and other consumer goods. The firm's brands include Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Bluemercury. It offers men's, women's, and children's apparel, women's accessories, intimate apparel, shoes, cosmetics, fragrances, as well as home and miscellaneous products. The company was founded by Rowland H. Macy in 1858 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ulta Beauty NASDAQ:ULTA

$534.41 +21.58 (+4.21%)

Closing price 08/3/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$534.34 -0.06 (-0.01%)

As of 04:02 AM Eastern

Ulta Beauty, Inc. operates as a specialty beauty retailer in the United States. The company offers branded and private label beauty products, including cosmetics, fragrance, haircare, skincare, bath and body products, professional hair products, and salon styling tools through its Ulta Beauty stores, shop-in-shops, Ulta.com website, and its mobile applications. It also offers beauty services, including hair, makeup, brow, and skin services at its stores. The company was formerly known as ULTA Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. and changed its name to Ulta Beauty, Inc. in January 2017. Ulta Beauty, Inc. was incorporated in 1990 and is based in Bolingbrook, Illinois.

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