B. Riley Issues Pessimistic Outlook for EL Earnings

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE:EL - Free Report) - Investment analysts at B. Riley dropped their Q3 2025 earnings estimates for shares of Estée Lauder Companies in a report released on Tuesday, February 4th. B. Riley analyst A. Glaessgen now expects that the company will earn $0.29 per share for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of $0.70. B. Riley has a "Neutral" rating and a $70.00 price objective on the stock. The consensus estimate for Estée Lauder Companies' current full-year earnings is $1.37 per share. B. Riley also issued estimates for Estée Lauder Companies' Q4 2025 earnings at $0.27 EPS.

A number of other equities analysts have also commented on the stock. Hsbc Global Res lowered shares of Estée Lauder Companies from a "strong-buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 16th. Citigroup downgraded shares of Estée Lauder Companies from a "buy" rating to a "neutral" rating and dropped their price target for the stock from $105.00 to $80.00 in a research note on Thursday, October 31st. UBS Group boosted their price objective on shares of Estée Lauder Companies from $74.00 to $80.00 and gave the company a "neutral" rating in a report on Thursday, January 16th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reduced their price target on shares of Estée Lauder Companies from $80.00 to $78.00 and set a "hold" rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, January 22nd. Finally, HSBC cut shares of Estée Lauder Companies from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and set a $100.00 target price for the company. in a report on Wednesday, October 16th. Twenty analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company's stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Estée Lauder Companies currently has a consensus rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $86.00.

Estée Lauder Companies Stock Performance

NYSE EL traded up $1.65 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $70.36. The company had a trading volume of 3,766,509 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,457,635. The company has a quick ratio of 0.90, a current ratio of 1.37 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.75. The stock has a market cap of $25.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -36.21, a P/E/G ratio of 5.43 and a beta of 1.03. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $76.57 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $82.56. Estée Lauder Companies has a fifty-two week low of $62.29 and a fifty-two week high of $159.54.

Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The company reported $0.62 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.32 by $0.30. The business had revenue of $4 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.98 billion. Estée Lauder Companies had a negative net margin of 4.61% and a positive return on equity of 16.82%. Estée Lauder Companies's revenue for the quarter was down 6.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.88 EPS.

Estée Lauder Companies Dividend Announcement

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 17th. Investors of record on Friday, February 28th will be given a $0.35 dividend. This represents a $1.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.99%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 28th. Estée Lauder Companies's payout ratio is currently -71.79%.

Insider Activity at Estée Lauder Companies

In related news, CFO Akhil Shrivastava acquired 700 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 5th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $65.79 per share, with a total value of $46,053.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the chief financial officer now directly owns 2,381 shares in the company, valued at $156,645.99. The trade was a 41.64 % increase in their ownership of the stock. The purchase was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, Director Paul J. Fribourg acquired 77,500 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, November 15th. The stock was bought at an average cost of $64.01 per share, for a total transaction of $4,960,775.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the director now owns 234,500 shares of the company's stock, valued at $15,010,345. This trade represents a 49.36 % increase in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. Insiders have acquired 196,700 shares of company stock valued at $12,762,093 over the last ninety days. 12.78% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS purchased a new position in shares of Estée Lauder Companies during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $6,077,000. Sei Investments Co. boosted its position in shares of Estée Lauder Companies by 568.4% during the fourth quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 150,164 shares of the company's stock valued at $11,256,000 after buying an additional 127,699 shares during the last quarter. American Century Companies Inc. boosted its position in shares of Estée Lauder Companies by 11,026.8% during the fourth quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 3,343,607 shares of the company's stock valued at $250,704,000 after buying an additional 3,313,557 shares during the last quarter. Mizuho Securities USA LLC boosted its position in shares of Estée Lauder Companies by 46.4% during the fourth quarter. Mizuho Securities USA LLC now owns 22,124 shares of the company's stock valued at $1,659,000 after buying an additional 7,014 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Blueshift Asset Management LLC purchased a new position in Estée Lauder Companies in the fourth quarter worth $1,452,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 55.15% of the company's stock.

About Estée Lauder Companies

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.