Estée Lauder Companies - EL Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Estée Lauder Companies in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings, 14 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" EL shares.
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18 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Estée Lauder Companies' stock. Their EL share price forecasts range from $258.00 to $400.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $318.65 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 30.6% from the stock's current price.
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Estée Lauder Companies' stock was trading at $370.20 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, EL stock has decreased by 34.1% and is now trading at $243.98.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 1st 2022.
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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE:EL) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 18th. The company reported $0.42 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.32 by $0.10. The business had revenue of $3.56 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.48 billion. Estée Lauder Companies had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 43.78% and a net margin of 13.48%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 9.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.78 earnings per share.
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Estée Lauder Companies announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 18th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, August 31st will be given a dividend of $0.60 per share on Thursday, September 15th. This represents a $2.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.98%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 30th.
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Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.98%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 36.81%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EL will have a dividend payout ratio of 28.00% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Estée Lauder Companies issued an update on its first quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, September, 8th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.22-$1.32 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.88. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.95 billion-$4.04 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.39 billion.

819 employees have rated Estée Lauder Companies Chief Executive Officer Fabrizio Freda on Glassdoor.com. Fabrizio Freda has an approval rating of 93% among the company's employees. This puts Fabrizio Freda in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Estée Lauder Companies trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EL."

Estée Lauder Companies' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (2.74%), FMR LLC (2.62%), Jennison Associates LLC (1.84%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.98%), Brown Advisory Inc. (0.88%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.86%). Insiders that own company stock include Alexandra C Trower, Barry S Sternlicht, Carl P Haney, Cedric Prouve, Charlene Barshefsky, Fabrizio Freda, Gregory Polcer, Hudis Jane Hertzmark, Irvine O Hockaday Jr, Irvine O Hockaday, Jr, Jane Lauder, Jason Gesing, John Demsey, Lal Family Partners Lp, Lynn Forester, Michael O'hare, Paul J Fribourg, Richard D Parsons, Ronald S Foundation Lauder, Ronald S Lauder, Rose Marie Bravo, Sara E Moss, Sara E Moss, Tracey Thomas Travis, Wei Sun Christianson, William P Lauder and Zinterhofer Aerin Lauder Trust.
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One share of EL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $243.98.

Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) has a market capitalization of $87.08 billion and generates $17.74 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $2.39 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.52 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 63,000 workers across the globe.

Estée Lauder Companies was founded in 1946.

Estée Lauder Companies' mailing address is 767 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK NY, 10153. The official website for the company is www.elcompanies.com. The company can be reached via phone at (212) 572-4200, via email at irdept@estee.com, or via fax at 212-893-7782.