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

27 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Estée Lauder Companies in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings, 14 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" EL shares.
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27 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Estée Lauder Companies' shares. Their EL share price forecasts range from $150.00 to $305.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $204.42 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 46.2% from the stock's current price.
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Estée Lauder Companies' stock was trading at $248.11 at the beginning of the year. Since then, EL shares have decreased by 43.6% and is now trading at $139.85.
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Estée Lauder Companies saw a drop in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,150,000 shares, a drop of 10.0% from the August 31st total of 3,500,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,450,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.3 days. Approximately 1.4% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 1st 2023.
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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE:EL) released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, August, 18th. The company reported $0.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.04) by $0.11. The business had revenue of $3.61 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.48 billion. Estée Lauder Companies had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 21.79% and a net margin of 6.32%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 1.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.42 EPS.
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Estée Lauder Companies announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 18th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 31st will be given a dividend of $0.66 per share on Friday, September 15th. This represents a $2.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.89%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, August 30th.
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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 1.81%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 94.96%. 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 48.44% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Estée Lauder Companies issued an update on its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Friday, August, 18th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of -$0.29--$0.19 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.99. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.46 billion-$3.54 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.94 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.

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Estée Lauder Companies trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EL."

Estée Lauder Companies' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich (181.82%), BlackRock Inc. (4.26%), State Street Corp (2.80%), Royal Bank of Canada (1.36%), Capital International Investors (1.28%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.18%). Insiders that own company stock include Barry S Sternlicht, Carl P Haney, Cedric Prouve, Charlene Barshefsky, Fabrizio Freda, Gregory Polcer, Hudis Jane Hertzmark, Irvine O Hockaday Jr, Irvine O Hockaday, Jr, Jane Lauder, Jason Gesing, Jennifer Hyman, John Demsey, Lal Family Partners Lp, Lynn Forester, Michael O'hare, Paul J Fribourg, Richard D Parsons, Ronald S Foundation Lauder, 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 WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of EL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $139.85.

Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) has a market capitalization of $50.02 billion and generates $15.91 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.01 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.78 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 62,000 workers across the globe.

Estée Lauder Companies' mailing address is 767 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK NY, 10153. The official website for the company is www.elcompanies.com. The company can be reached via phone at (212) 572-4200, via email at irdept@estee.com, or via fax at 212-893-7782.