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

29 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Estée Lauder Companies in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 15 hold ratings, 12 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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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29 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Estée Lauder Companies' shares. Their EL share price targets range from $115.00 to $305.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $179.14 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 28.9% from the stock's current price.
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Estée Lauder Companies' stock was trading at $248.11 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, EL shares have decreased by 44.0% and is now trading at $138.95.
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Estée Lauder Companies saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,140,000 shares, an increase of 27.2% from the October 31st total of 4,040,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,540,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.0 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 1st 2024.
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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE:EL) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November, 1st. The company reported $0.11 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.22) by $0.33. The firm had revenue of $3.52 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.53 billion. Estée Lauder Companies had a net margin of 3.54% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.93%. Estée Lauder Companies's revenue for the quarter was down 10.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.37 earnings per share.
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Estée Lauder Companies announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 30th will be given a dividend of $0.66 per share on Friday, December 15th. This represents a $2.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.90%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 29th.
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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 2.00%. 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 173.69%. 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 65.02% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Estée Lauder Companies updated its FY24 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 1st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.17-2.42 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.60.

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' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (1.48%), Morgan Stanley (1.25%), Royal Bank of Canada (1.11%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.06%), Lazard Asset Management LLC (1.04%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.02%). Insiders that own company stock include Barry S Sternlicht, Carl P Haney, Cedric Prouve, Charlene Barshefsky, Fabrizio Freda, 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, 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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