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e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. ELF

11 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.6B
▲ 24.6% YoY
$26.3M
▼ 76.5% YoY
$190.1M
▲ 64.8% YoY

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

In brief

What this company does

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. is a multi-brand beauty company that offers vegan and cruelty free cosmetics and skin care products. As of March 31, 2026, it had 849 full-time employees. Its largest customers, Target, Walmart, Amazon and Sephora, accounted for 18%, 13%, 11% and 10%, respectively, of its net sales in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026. Its family of brands consists of e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. SKIN, rhode, Naturium and Well People. It operates its business as a single operating and reportable segment. Its products are sourced and manufactured through a network of third-party manufacturers, primarily in China, with products also sourced in the United States, Italy, South Korea and other countries. e.l.f. Beauty was formed as a Delaware corporation on December 20, 2013 under the name J.A. Cosmetics Holdings, Inc., and changed its name to e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. in April 2016.

Written from the business description in e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 21 May 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 1.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 11-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.6 · Net income 0.0
1B2B
20152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
+41.4%
+38.8%
+23.9%
−24.7%
+33.4%
+19.7%
−26.5%
+29.7%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +38.8% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew slower: net income at +33.4%, earnings per share at +29.7%.

The share count rose from 0.05B to 0.06B over the period.

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

2 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 4.5% · Net 1.6%
5%10%
201520202025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 2.8%
10%20%
201520202025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin70.7%
Operating margin4.5%
Net margin1.6%
EBITDAUSD 153.0M

Each USD of equity produced 3 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 44.2M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 190.1
100M200M
201520202025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 44.2
25.0M50.0M-3.0M-6.0M
201720182019202020212022202320242025
Dividends paid·
Net buybacksUSD 44.2M
Share of profit167.9%
Consecutive raises·

USD 44.2M in buybacks — 168% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 2.4B
EquityUSD 1.1B
CashUSD 289.7M
Gross debtUSD 841.7M
Net debtUSD 552.0M
Current ratio2.35×

Net debt stands at 49% of equity.

The 11-year record

11 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
ELF, 11-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Revenue $B1.61.31.00.60.40.30.30.30.30.20.2
Operating income $B0.10.20.10.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.20.20.20.10.10.00.10.00.00.00.0
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.0−0.00.00.0
Net income $B0.00.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.20.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.0
EPS, diluted $0.441.922.211.110.410.120.350.320.68−39.47−1559.81
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌1.79◌
Payout % — not applicable: no dividend———————————
ROE %2.816.024.217.07.52.47.67.320.0——
Shares out B0.060.060.060.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.00

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 2 failures in 56 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 9 of the 11 fiscal years we could check. 16 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2015. Eight checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2015. Eight checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2015.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency2 failures
ActivityPerfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsMarch 31
Data on record since2014

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