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ELF
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.
NYSE· Consumer Defensive· Household & Personal Products· CUSIP 26856L103
$114.99+1.06%Price as of Oct 23, 00:43 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. (ELF) is listed on NYSE and classified in Household & Personal Products, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Oakland, United States and has 849 employees. The company is worth $6.79B and trades at 116.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $1.64B in fiscal 2026, up 24.6% from the year before. Net income was $26.32M. The share price is 13.1% below its 52-week high of $132.37. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Baillie Gifford (Baillie Gifford & Co), at $521.61M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 4 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $6.65M of its stock on the open market and bought none. $1.79M of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $6.79B
- P/E
- 116.2x
- Forward P/E
- 29.3x
- P/B
- 5.8x
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- $0.99
- ROE
- 6.04%
- Profit margin
- 3.38%
- Revenue growth
- +35.50%
- Beta
- 1.60
- 52-week high
- $132.37
- 52-week low
- $48.82
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +277.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $3,514.08▲ +251.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 10 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $113.54 | $76.04 | $125.55 | $144.34 | $55.30 | $33.21 | $25.19 | $8.66 | $22.31 | $28.94 | |
| P/E | 56.8x | 258.0x | 39.6x | 56.8x | 130.0x | 134.9x | 276.7x | 72.0x | 27.1x | 32.8x | — |
| P/S | 4.9x |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$21.02
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$24.75
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$18.00
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$56.24
Median P/E of 56.8 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$100.04
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$20.13
Sector median of 11.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Others in the same sector
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACIAlbertsons Companies, Inc. | $13.87 | — | 4.7x | 4.90% | -2.27% | $6.73B |
| PPCPilgrims Pride Corp | $28.09 | 12.1x | 1.8x | 0.00% | 14.52% | $6.69B |
| TBBBBbb Foods Inc | $57.60 | — | 21.4x | 0.00% | -67.33% | $6.94B |
| SFMSprouts Farmers Market, Inc. | $68.86 |
About the company
- 849
- Oakland, United States
