Estee Lauder (EL)

• Market cap: $30.1B
• 1 day: -3.64%
• 5 days: -6.6%
• 1 month: -8.78%
• 3 months: 19.52%
• 6 months: 25.9%
• Year to date: 13.07%
• 1 year: -0.65%
• 5 years: -61.52%
• 10 years: 9.52%
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Household & Personal Products

About: Estée Lauder is a leader in the global prestige beauty market, participating across skin care (49% of fiscal 2025 sales), makeup (29%), fragrance (17%), and hair care and others (5%), with top-selling brands such as Estée Lauder, Clinique, M.A.C, La Mer, Jo Malone London, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, and Origins. The firm operates in more than 150 countries, generating 31% of revenue from the Americas, 37% from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (including travel retail), and 32% from Asia-Pacific. Estée Lauder sells its products through department stores, travel retail, specialty multibrand beauty stores, brand-dedicated freestanding stores, e-commerce, salons/spas, and perfumeries.

Employees: 57,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

27% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $13.9B [Q1] → $17.7B (+$3.82B) [Q2]

23% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 128 | Existing positions closed: 104

13% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 8 [Q1] → 9 (+1) [Q2]

11% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 298 | Existing positions reduced: 268

3.19% more ownership

Funds ownership: 90.19% [Q1] → 93.38% (+3.19%) [Q2]

2% more funds holding

Funds holding: 777 [Q1] → 791 (+14) [Q2]

6% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $957M | Put options by funds: $1.01B

Research analyst outlook

12 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $84
• Avg. target: $97
• High target: $110

12 analyst ratings

• positive: 6 50%
• neutral: 6 50%
• negative: 0 0%

Deutsche Bank Steve Powers	$100	Buy Maintained	21 Aug 2025
JP Morgan Andrea Teixeira	$99	Overweight Maintained	21 Aug 2025
RBC Capital Nik Modi	$107	Outperform Maintained	21 Aug 2025
Telsey Advisory Group Dana Telsey	$99	Market Perform Maintained	21 Aug 2025
Canaccord Genuity Susan Anderson	$85	Hold Maintained	18 Aug 2025