Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) Updates Q1 Earnings Guidance

Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) issued an update on its first quarter earnings guidance on Monday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.01-0.09 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.61. The company issued revenue guidance of down 3-5% yr/yr to ~$3.34-3.41 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.76 billion. Estée Lauder Companies also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 2.750-2.950 EPS.

Estée Lauder Companies Stock Down 0.2 %

Shares of NYSE:EL opened at $94.97 on Monday. Estée Lauder Companies has a 1 year low of $86.05 and a 1 year high of $165.76. The company has a market capitalization of $34.05 billion, a PE ratio of 53.35, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.79 and a beta of 0.99. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $103.19 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $127.58. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.26, a current ratio of 1.58 and a quick ratio of 1.15.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts recently issued reports on EL shares. Telsey Advisory Group restated a market perform rating and set a $115.00 price objective on shares of Estée Lauder Companies in a report on Tuesday, August 13th. Royal Bank of Canada upgraded shares of Estée Lauder Companies from a sector perform rating to an outperform rating and set a $131.00 price target for the company in a research note on Wednesday, July 24th. StockNews.com upgraded Estée Lauder Companies from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research note on Thursday, May 2nd. Canaccord Genuity Group decreased their target price on Estée Lauder Companies from $140.00 to $131.00 and set a hold rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, May 2nd. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their price target on Estée Lauder Companies from $145.00 to $129.00 and set an overweight rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, July 12th. Sixteen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and seven have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of Hold and an average target price of $140.23.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Estée Lauder Companies news, EVP Jane Lauder sold 14,976 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $121.26, for a total value of $1,815,989.76. Following the sale, the executive vice president now owns 57,389 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,958,990.14. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. In related news, EVP Jane Lauder sold 14,976 shares of Estée Lauder Companies stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $121.26, for a total value of $1,815,989.76. Following the sale, the executive vice president now owns 57,389 shares in the company, valued at $6,958,990.14. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, insider Peter Jueptner sold 12,786 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $130.62, for a total transaction of $1,670,107.32. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now owns 5,578 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $728,598.36. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 12.77% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

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, nail polishes, and powders, as well as compacts, brushes, and other makeup tools.