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Estee Lauder Companies Inc. EL

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$15.0B
▲ 5.0% YoY
$182.0M
$1.3B
▲ 96.4% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. manufactures, markets and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. It manages more than 20 luxury and prestige brands globally and has expanded its consumer reach to approximately 150 countries and territories. It operates as a wholesaler, with its products sold in brick-and-mortar locations and on e-commerce platforms operated by department stores, duty-free retailers, specialty-multi retailers, online pure players, upscale perfumeries and pharmacies, and salons and spas. It also operates a direct-to-consumer business across freestanding stores, its brands' websites and third-party online platforms. It manufactures its products primarily in its own facilities in the Americas, in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and in Asia/Pacific, and also relies on global third-party manufacturing networks. As of June 30, 2025, it had approximately 57,000 employees worldwide, including approximately 35,000 demonstrators at points of sale.

Written from the business description in Estee Lauder Companies Inc's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 August 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 15.0B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 15.0 · Net income 0.2
10B20B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−1.8%
−1.5%
+2.9%
+3.6%
−43.5%
−42.4%
−16.6%
−8.6%
−43.6%
−42.3%
−16.3%
−8.0%
−18.4%
−7.5%
+2.1%
+9.2%
−22.0%
−16.2%
−8.1%
+2.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −1.5% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

1 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 5.2% · Net 1.2%
5%10%15%-2%-4%-6%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 4.7%
20%40%-10%-20%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin75.5%
Operating margin5.2%
Net margin1.2%
EBITDAUSD 1.6B

Each USD of equity produced 5 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 525.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 1.3
2B3B
200820162025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 0.5 · Net buybacks 0.0
2B3BDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025
Dividends paidUSD 508.0M
Net buybacksUSD 17.0M
Share of profit288.5%
Consecutive raises·

USD 508.0M in dividends and USD 17.0M in buybacks — 288% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 19.8B
CashUSD 3.5B
Gross debtUSD 7.3B
Net debtUSD 3.8B
Current ratio1.22×

Net debt stands at 100% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
EL, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B15.014.315.615.917.716.214.314.913.711.811.310.811.010.29.78.87.87.3
Operating income $B0.8−0.81.01.53.22.60.62.32.11.71.61.61.81.51.31.10.80.4
EBITDA $B1.60.01.82.33.93.31.22.92.62.22.02.02.21.91.61.41.10.7
Income tax $B0.30.10.40.40.60.50.30.50.90.40.40.50.60.50.40.30.20.1
Net income $B0.2−1.10.41.02.42.90.71.81.11.31.11.11.21.00.90.70.50.2
Free cash flow $B1.30.71.40.72.03.01.71.81.91.31.31.51.00.80.70.70.70.4
EPS, diluted $0.50−3.151.082.796.557.791.864.822.953.352.962.823.062.582.161.741.191.10
Dividend / sh $1.401.712.642.582.332.071.391.671.481.321.140.920.781.080.530.380.280.55
Payout %279−55232923526743449393832254124212350
ROE %4.7−24.77.518.141.357.516.439.324.431.430.929.033.733.932.030.626.513.1

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 88 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Two checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityPerfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsJune 30
Data on record since2008

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