Estee Lauder (EL)

• Market cap: $25.8B
• 1 day: 0.64%
• 5 days: 2.26%
• 1 month: -8.91%
• 3 months: 7.42%
• 6 months: -21.54%
• Year to date: -2.95%
• 1 year: -51.32%
• 5 years: -65.69%
• 10 years: -12.59%
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations

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 filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

17% more funds holding in top 10

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

3.79% more ownership

Funds ownership: 86.09% [Q3] → 89.88% (+3.79%) [Q4]

12% less call options, than puts

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

12% less funds holding

Funds holding: 896 [Q3] → 786 (-110) [Q4]

21% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $19.9B [Q3] → $15.7B (-$4.22B) [Q4]

26% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 236 | Existing positions reduced: 321

35% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 132 | Existing positions closed: 202

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $64 11% downside
• Avg. target: $80 12% upside
• High target: $100 39% upside

13 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 23%
• neutral: 10 77%
• negative: 0 0%

Morgan Stanley Dara Mohsenian 54% 1-year accuracy 20 / 37 met price target	13% upside $81	Equal-Weight Maintained	6 Feb 2025
Barclays Lauren Lieberman 43% 1-year accuracy 39 / 90 met price target	11% downside $64	Equal-Weight Maintained	6 Feb 2025
DA Davidson Linda Bolton Weiser 30% 1-year accuracy 34 / 112 met price target	13% upside $81	Buy Maintained	5 Feb 2025
Stifel Mark Astrachan 47% 1-year accuracy 15 / 32 met price target	7% upside $77	Hold Maintained	5 Feb 2025
Canaccord Genuity Susan Anderson 24% 1-year accuracy 8 / 33 met price target	3% downside $70	Hold Maintained	5 Feb 2025