In the latest trading session,, 1.25 million Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (NYSE:EL) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.17. With the company’s most recent per share price at $83.71 changing hands around $2.91 or 3.60% at last look, the market valuation stands at $30.11B. EL’s current price is a discount, trading about -29.46% off its 52-week high of $108.37. The share price had its 52-week low at $48.37, which suggests the last value was 42.22% up since then. When we look at Estee Lauder Cos., Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 6.14 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 4.54 million.
Analysts gave the Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (EL) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.76. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 17 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 7 recommended EL as a Hold, 10 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (NYSE:EL) trade information
Instantly EL is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 8.64%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -24.49%, with the 5-day performance at 8.64% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (NYSE:EL) is 25.05% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 10.02 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.92 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 60, meaning bulls need a downside of -39.52% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, EL’s forecast low is 60 with 60 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 28.32% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 28.32% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -25.84%. The 2025 estimates are for Estee Lauder Cos., Inc earnings to decrease by -42.95%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 3.48% per year.
EL Dividends
Estee Lauder Cos., Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-01. The 2.04% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 1.71. It is important to note, however, that the 2.04% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 1.46 per year.
Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (NYSE:EL)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.43% of Estee Lauder Cos., Inc shares while 93.68% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 94.08%. There are 93.68% institutions holding the Estee Lauder Cos., Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 5.9346% of the shares, roughly 21.33 million EL shares worth $2.27 billion.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 4.1298% or 14.84 million shares worth $1.58 billion as of 2024-06-30.
