With 6.54 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 4.77 million shares. During the session, the Household & Personal Products company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $77.67 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $74.822. The 52-week range on EL shows that it touched its highest point at $159.75 and its lowest point at $62.29 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $76.64. With its current market cap of 27.81 billion, EL has annualized dividend of $2.33 while the current yield stands at 3.01%. EL paid its most recent dividend on 1732838400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732838400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.03.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of EL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.18%, but this was up by 16.37% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -16.16% while six-month performance fell -37.28%. The stock lost -41.28% in the past year, while it has lost -47.02% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EL yields 0.56 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.68. For the next quarter, that number is 0.31. This implies an EPS growth rate of -39.73% for this year and 71.92% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 11.13% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -25.84%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 233.44 million EL shares are outstanding with a float of 232.29 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 7.86 million, which was 219.0 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Fabrizio Freda as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Ms. Jane Hertzmark Hudis serves as its Executive Group President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.90050006 of EL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, EL reported revenue of $3361000000.0 and operating income of $135000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $376000000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.43.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for EL since 17 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With EL analysts setting a high price target of 162.0 and a low target of 61.1, the average target price over the next 12 months is 80.48185. Based on these targets, EL could surge 109.09% to reach the target high and fall by -21.14% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 3.87% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.346 being high and $2.13456 being low. For EL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.22518.
