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

Estée Lauder is a leader in the global prestige beauty market, participating across skin care (49% of fiscal 2025 sales), makeup (29%), fragrance (17%), and hair care and others (5%). Top-selling brands include Estée Lauder, Clinique, M.A.C, La Mer, Jo Malone London, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, and Origins. The firm operates in more than 150 countries, generating 31% of revenue from the Americas, 37% from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (including travel retail), and 32% from Asia-Pacific. Estée 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 July 9, 2026, EL stock price climbed to $81.99 with 1,638,186 million shares trading.

EL has a beta of 2.04, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. EL has a correlation of 0.25 to the broad based SPY ETF.

EL has a market cap of $29.55 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Estee Lauder Cos reported $4 billion in Revenue and $.91 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $21 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.26.

In the last 3 years, EL traded as high as $197.41 and as low as $48.37.

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

EL has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -2.5% while the SPY ETF gained +22.4%. However, in the short term, EL had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +15.3% vs +11.5% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, EL shares have been beat by the market, returning -1.5% compared to an SPY return of +2.5%.

EL support price is $79.58 and resistance is $84.02 (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.