The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

EL

Concerning the House

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products worldwide. The company offers skin care products, including moisturizers, serums, cleansers, toners, eye care, body care, exfoliators, acne care and oil correctors, facial masks, and sun care products; and makeup products, such as foundations, powders, concealers and setting sprays, lipsticks, lip liners and lip glosses, mascaras, and eyeshadows and eyeliners, as well as compacts, brushes, and other makeup tools. It also provides fragrance products in various forms comprising parfum, eau de parfum, eau de toilette, eau de cologne, and body spray, as well as lotions, creams, powders, candles and soaps; and hair care products, including shampoos, conditioners, styling products, treatment, finishing sprays, and hair colour products, as well as sells ancillary products and services. The company offers its products under the La Mer, Jo Malone London, TOM FORD, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, KILIAN PARIS, BALMAIN Beauty, Estée Lauder, Clinique, M·A·C, The Ordinary, Aveda, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, Bumble and bumble, Smashbox, Darphin Paris, Lab Series, NIOD, Aramis, and GLAMGLOW brands. It sells its products through department stores, duty-free retailers, specialty multi retailers, online pure players, upscale perfumeries and pharmacies, and top-tier salons and spas, as well as direct-to-consumer businesses across freestanding stores, and brand websites and third-party online platforms. The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

United States · www.elcompanies.com

The Long Run

FY 2011–2025 · 15 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$15.61B+5.6%
Gross profit$11.18B+5.3%
Operating income$1.51B+12.3%
Net income$557.00M+9.0%
Cash from ops$2.36B+14.5%
Quotation

$87.32

-0.36 (-0.4%)

52w hi$118.78
52w lo$66.97
Vol1.34M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Sell

Our score -1.01

Short-0.80
Medium-1.03
Long-1.37

computed 2026-08-12

By the Numbers

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Consumer Defensive · Household & Personal Products

Market cap$31.59B
Enterprise value$37.90B
Trailing P/E
Forward P/E27.47x
EV / EBITDA16.13x
P / S (ttm)
Profit margin-1.7%
Return on equity-5.9%
Revenue growth+4.6%
Earnings growth-45.5%
Debt / equity232.91
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX1.38
Corr SPX0.45
Annual vol49.4%
Annual ret+10.1%
Sharpe0.20
Max DD-50.3%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental-0.25
Sector+0.02
Technical-0.23
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment-0.53

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-12

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$87.93$88.64$87.04$87.321.34M
Aug 12$87.65$88.72$86.86$87.683.35M
Aug 11$86.81$88.66$86.58$87.783.91M
Aug 10$87.15$87.73$85.96$87.192.21M
Aug 7$85.49$88.87$85.05$88.352.12M