Estee Lauder (EL)

• Market cap: $23.4B
• 1 day: 2.36%
• 5 days: 0.80%
• 1 month: 23.76%
• 3 months: -9.72%
• 6 months: 0.93%
• Year to date: -11.91%
• 1 year: -52.86%
• 5 years: -63.44%
• 10 years: -26.91%
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Household & Personal Products

About: Estee Lauder is a leader in the global prestige beauty market, participating across skin care (51% of fiscal 2024 sales), makeup (29%), fragrance (16%), and hair care (4%) categories, with top-selling brands such as Estee Lauder, Clinique, M.A.C, La Mer, Jo Malone London, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, and Origins. The firm operates in more than 150 countries, generating 30% of revenue from the Americas, 39% from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (including travel retail), and 31% from Asia-Pacific. Estee Lauder sells its products through department stores, travel retail, specialty multibrand beauty stores, brand-dedicated freestanding stores, e-commerce, salons/spas, and perfumeries.

Employees: 62,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

17% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 6 [Q3] → 7 (+1) [Q4]

6.09% more ownership

Funds ownership: 84.19% [Q3] → 90.29% (+6.09%) [Q4]

9% less funds holding

Funds holding: 897 [Q3] → 815 (-82) [Q4]

12% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $1.06B | Put options by funds: $1.21B

19% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $19.5B [Q3] → $15.8B (-$3.72B) [Q4]

27% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 244 | Existing positions reduced: 332

33% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 139 | Existing positions closed: 206

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $55 16% downside
• Avg. target: $67 3% upside
• High target: $90 38% upside

11 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 27%
• neutral: 8 73%
• negative: 0 0%

UBS Peter Grom 47% 1-year accuracy 14 / 30 met price target	5% downside $62	Neutral Maintained	2 May 2025
RBC Capital Nik Modi 34% 1-year accuracy 16 / 47 met price target	38% upside $90	Outperform Maintained	2 May 2025
B. Riley Securities Anna Glaessgen 38% 1-year accuracy 5 / 13 met price target	8% downside $60	Neutral Reiterated	2 May 2025
Piper Sandler Korinne Wolfmeyer 34% 1-year accuracy 16 / 47 met price target	15% upside $75	Overweight Reiterated	2 May 2025
Telsey Advisory Group Dana Telsey 49% 1-year accuracy 93 / 188 met price target	1% upside $66	Market Perform Maintained	2 May 2025