EL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Estee Lauder Cos | NYSE:EL)

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.

Estee Lauder Cos trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol EL.

As of December 4, 2024, EL stock price climbed to $78.62 with 2,701,971 million shares trading.

EL has a beta of 0.98, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. EL has a correlation of 0.07 to the broad based SPY ETF.

EL has a market cap of $28.22 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Estee Lauder Cos reported $3 billion in Revenue and $.14 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-9 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.05.

In the last 3 years, EL traded as high as $374.20 and as low as $62.29.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that EL belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, MOAT, SPY, IVV.

EL has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -38.6%, while the SPY ETF gained +33.6%. In the last 3 month period, EL fell short of the market, returning -14.7%, while SPY returned +10.1%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks EL has outperformed the stock market by returning +21.9%, while SPY returned +2.7%.

EL support price is $75.34 and resistance is $79.62 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that EL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.