Currently, there are 234.21M common shares owned by the public and among those 233.09M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 6.15% and 9.92% over the past three months. EL shares are trading -0.25% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -34.45% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $48.37 and touched a high of $115.82 over the same period. EL has an average intraday trading volume of 4.06 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 9.73%, 19.96%, and 1.52% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (NYSE: EL) shares accounts for 61.02% of the company’s 234.21M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $26.91B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.12. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$2.42. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 6.03% over the week and 3.25% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (EL) will achieve an EPS of 0.08 for the current quarter, 0.24 for the next quarter and 2.22 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -0.06 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of -0.06. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.64 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -42.96%, and 49.33% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 3.13% over the next five years, compared to -25.84% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the EL, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Telsey Advisory Group stated their Market Perform rating for the stock in a research note on May 02, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $76-$66. Telsey Advisory Group coverage for the Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (EL) stock in a research note released on November 01, 2024 offered a Market Perform rating with a price target of $76. JP Morgan was of a view on November 01, 2024 that the stock is Neutral, while Wells Fargo gave the stock Equal Weight rating on October 31, 2024, issuing a price target of $105- $72. Stifel on their part issued Hold rating on October 31, 2024.
