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Citadel Advisors · Q2 2026
$35.27M
446.7K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Estee Lauder Companies Inc
Estee Lauder Companies Inc (EL) is listed on NYSE and classified in Household & Personal Products, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in New York, United States and has 37,950 employees. The company is worth $39.03B and trades at 207.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $15.05B in fiscal 2026, up 5.0% from the year before. Net income was $182M. The share price is 11.4% below its 52-week high of $121.64. It pays a dividend yielding 1.30%. 8 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $124.99M. In that quarter, 5 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -68.5% over 5Y.
today you would have $348.14▼ -65.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $104.54 | $104.72 | $74.98 | $146.25 | $248.11 | $370.20 | $266.19 | $206.54 | $130.10 | $127.24 | $76.49 | $88.06 | $76.20 | $75.32 | $59.86 | $56.16 | $40.35 | $24.18 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 37.9 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 11.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADMArcher-Daniels-Midland Co | $79.84 | 21.8x | 1.6x | 2.61% | 7.64% | $38.48B |
| KVUEKenvue Inc. | $19.88 | 22.1x | 3.6x | 4.23% | 15.58% | $38.18B |
| KRKroger Co | $67.87 | 37.7x | 6.9x | 2.30% | 14.44% | $40.08B |
| KMBKimberly Clark Corp | $112.32 |
| P/E | 37.9x | 209.1x | — | 69.4x | 52.4x | 37.9x | 47.5x | 143.1x | 42.9x | 44.1x | 38.0x | 25.8x | 31.2x | 24.9x | 29.2x | 27.7x | 32.3x | 33.9x | 44.0x |
| P/S | 2.8x | 2.5x | 2.6x | 1.7x | 3.3x | 5.1x | 8.4x | 6.8x | 5.1x | 3.6x | 4.0x | 2.6x | 3.2x | 2.7x | 2.9x | 2.4x | 2.6x | 2.1x | 1.3x |
| P/B | 9.4x | 10.0x | 9.8x | 5.1x | 9.5x | 16.2x | 22.5x | 24.8x | 17.4x | 10.4x | 10.8x | 8.1x | 9.3x | 7.8x | 9.0x | 8.7x | 8.6x | 8.3x | 5.7x |
| EPS | $0.50 | -$3.15 | $1.08 | $2.79 | $6.55 | $7.79 | $1.86 | $4.82 | $2.95 | $3.35 | $2.96 | $2.82 | $3.06 | $2.58 | $2.16 | $1.74 | $1.19 | $0.55 |
| Dividend yield | 1.10% | 1.00% | 1.34% | 3.11% | 1.81% | 0.99% | 0.59% | 0.56% | 0.86% | 1.21% | 1.10% | 1.62% | 1.16% | 1.10% | 0.98% | 1.20% | 0.93% | 0.93% | 1.14% |
| Payout | 37.56% | 210.00% | — | 215.74% | 94.62% | 37.56% | 28.11% | 80.11% | 36.72% | 53.22% | 41.79% | 41.89% | 36.17% | 27.45% | 28.68% | 33.33% | 30.17% | 31.51% | 50.00% |
| Profit margin | 8.46% | 1.21% | -7.91% | 2.62% | 6.35% | 13.58% | 17.73% | 4.79% | 12.01% | 8.10% | 10.56% | 9.90% | 10.10% | 10.98% | 10.02% | 8.82% | 7.95% | 6.14% | 2.98% |
| ROE | 27.57% | 4.78% | -29.31% | 7.70% | 18.08% | 43.08% | 47.47% | 17.38% | 40.70% | 23.63% | 28.49% | 31.22% | 29.89% | 31.24% | 31.03% | 31.35% | 26.65% | 24.55% | 13.13% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
4 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-68.1% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 21.0x |
| 21.3x |
| 4.56% |
| 104.91% |
| $37.35B |
| SYYSysco Corp | $83.97 | 22.9x | 15.1x | 2.62% | 77.69% | $41.31B |
| HSYHershey Co | $175.64 | 24.0x | 7.7x | 3.31% | 32.81% | $35.29B |
