What Should Investors Know About Estee Lauder (EL) Stock?

By Ken Smith • Wednesday, April 12 16:44 • Permanent Link

With gains of 2.2%, Estee Lauder was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $247.05 and have logged a -0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Estee Lauder has moved -9.3% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -7.6%
EL has an average analyst rating of buy and is -14.75% away from its mean target price of $289.78 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $4.16
Estee Lauder has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 59.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $7.31 and its forward P/E ratio is 33.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 14.9 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Estee Lauder is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.33 and an average P/B of 3.12
EL has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -63.3% and gross profit margins of 0.7%
The company has a free cash flow of $1,058,750,016.00, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products worldwide. It offers a range of skin care products, including moisturizers, serums, cleansers, toners, body care, exfoliators, acne care and oil correctors, facial masks, cleansing devices, 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. The company also provides fragrance products in various forms comprising eau de parfum sprays and colognes, as well as lotions, powders, creams, candles, and soaps; and hair care products that include shampoos, conditioners, styling products, treatment, finishing sprays, and hair color products, as well as sells ancillary products and services. It offers its products under the Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, Bobbi Brown, La Mer, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin, Smashbox, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, Kilian Paris, Too Faced, Dr. Jart+, DECIEM, and The Ordinary brands. The company sells its products through department stores, specialty-multi retailers, upscale perfumeries and pharmacies, and salons and spas; freestanding stores; its own and authorized retailer websites; third-party online malls; stores in airports; and duty-free shops. The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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