{ "ok": true, "cik": "1001250", "ticker": "EL", "name": "Estee Lauder Companies Inc", "filings": [ { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-09-08", "items": [ "7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125026000045/0001001250-26-000045-index.htm" }, { "form": "10-K", "filed": "2026-08-19", "items": [], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125026000041/0001001250-26-000041-index.htm" }, { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-08-19", "items": [ "2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125026000038/0001001250-26-000038-index.htm" }, { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-07-24", "items": [ "5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125026000033/0001001250-26-000033-index.htm" }, { "form": "10-Q", "filed": "2026-05-01", "items": [], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125026000019/0001001250-26-000019-index.htm" }, { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-05-01", "items": [ "2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125026000017/0001001250-26-000017-index.htm" } ], "events12m": 10, "sources": { "facts": "https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001001250.json", "filings": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1001250" }, "license": "Figures as filed with the SEC. Card text CC BY 4.0, POPS4.", "notAdvice": "Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets, no buy or sell views.", "edgar": "🫧 Edgar looked up Estee Lauder Companies Inc ($EL). Last filing: 8-K (7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure), 2026-09-08. 10 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.", "auditor": { "changes": [], "nonReliance": [], "restatedSince": null }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2026-06-30", "revenue": 15049000000, "revenueGrowth1y": 0.05046768113918754, "revenueGrowthPerYear": -0.0402527662387977, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": 0.051830686424347135, "operatingMarginPrior": -0.05479547675554935, "netMargin": 0.012093826832347665, "operatingCashFlow": 1773000000, "capitalSpending": 457000000, "freeCashFlow": 1316000000, "researchAndDevelopment": null, "researchShareOfRevenue": null, "cash": 3498000000, "longTermDebt": 7306000000, "longTermDebtChange": -0.0015033483668169811, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2022-06-30", "revenue": 17737000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2023-06-30", "revenue": 15910000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2024-06-30", "revenue": 15608000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-06-30", "revenue": 14326000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2026-06-30", "revenue": 15049000000 } ], "totalEquity": 3806000000, "totalAssets": 19762000000, "equityRatio": 0.19259184293087744, "returnOnEquity": 0.047819232790331054, "dividendsPaid": 508000000, "payoutRatio": 2.791208791208791, "dividendPerShare": 1.4, "dividendYearsRising": 0, "dividendCut": true, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. The boards carry filings only, so they are not shown.", "range80": { "low": 12085599310.33851, "high": 17342468038.696785, "baseline": 15290484957.412083, "n": 1471, "band": "b10" }, "ifPaceHeld": { "low": 12085599310.33851, "high": 17342468038.696785 } }, "edgarette": "🔖 Exposure: revenue $15.0B (FY2026), total debt $7.3B. Experience: revenue up 5.0% on the year, down 4.0% a year over 4 years; operating margin 5.2%, up from -5.5%. Soundness: equity 19.3% of assets, return on equity 4.8%, payout 279.1% of profit, the dividend per share fell in the latest year on record. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $12.1B and $17.3B next year (method v3, set from 1,471 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (10 filers, $50M+ revenue, perfumes, cosmetics & other toilet preparations): operating margin 5.2% against a 3.3% median; growth 5.0% against 0.1%.", "peers": { "sic": 2844, "sicDescription": "Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 4, "group": "2844", "growth": [ 0.0007, 9 ], "opMargin": [ 0.0331, 10 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.3564, 10 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.0199, 8 ] }, "summary": "Estee Lauder Companies (EL) grew revenue 5.0% in FY2026 to $15.0 billion, operating margin 5.2% against a 3.3% median for perfumes, cosmetics & other toilet preparations, equity 19.3% of assets, and its dividend per share fell in the latest year on record. Every figure is from the company’s own annual report filed with the SEC.", "chart": "
Estee Lauder Companies Inc against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 3.3%5.2%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 0.1%5.0%Equity of assetsPeer median 35.6%19.3%Return on equityPeer median 2.0%4.8%Payout of profit279.1%Gold tick: the median of 8–10 peers with $50M+ revenue in perfumes, cosmetics & other toilet preparations
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Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit120.0% paid outMore was paid out than was earned in the year.Handed back per share$1.4cut in the latest yearGrowth its own profit can fund0.0%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed5.0%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

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