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Company Dossier · Consumer Staples

Estée Lauder

ELNYSEPersonal ProductsWILMINGTON, US-DE, USLarge capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • Russell 1000

What Estée Lauder is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $15.1 billion, up 5.0% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $1.32 billion, up 97% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.46 billion, down 23% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to June 30, 2026: $0.07 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to June 30, 2017: $1.50 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (August 19, 2026): sentiment 0.70 on a −1 to +1 scale (confident, opportunity-framed), confidence 0.80 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 1 outlook figure raised, 0 lowered, 1 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed August 19, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $11.8 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 836 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+0 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 17 (15 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What Estée Lauder is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Steady · Confident

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Steady

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Confident

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

Estée Lauder's borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$7.3B

  • Due within a year $0.5B
  • Longer term $6.8B
  • Default point $3.9B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Jun 30, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

None

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

PricedAmountCouponMaturesSpreadYield
Feb 12, 2024$650M5.000%2034 (10y)+87bp5.040%

From the pricing term sheets Estée Lauder filed with the SEC. Spread is to the benchmark Treasury (or Bund, Gilt) at pricing.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

Estée Lauder: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$1.3BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Estée Lauder: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Estée Lauder: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$15.1BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Estée Lauder: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.1BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Estée Lauder: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Jun 2017
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Estée Lauder: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Estée Lauder: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

2.3Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Estée Lauder: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

1.0Data 23 days ago
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
Business

Estée Lauder: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.70Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Estée Lauder: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.80Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Estée Lauder: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

1.0Data to Aug 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Estée Lauder: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

17.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Estée Lauder: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$12MData 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Estée Lauder: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

836.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: Intelligent Beauty Product Packaging SystemUS 12770169
  2. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  3. Sep 15, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: Hair Management SystemUS 12733723
  4. Sep 15, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: Digital Techniques for Managing Cosmetics and Skincare Product UsageUS 12737800
  5. Sep 1, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: CONTROLLING VIRTUAL APPEARANCES IN IMAGES THAT ARE CAPTURED AND PROVIDED BY IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICESUS 12726720
  6. Aug 19, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  7. Jul 24, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  8. Jul 21, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: REFILLABLE COSMETIC PRODUCTUS 12685379
  9. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  10. Jul 7, 20268-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  11. Jun 3, 20268-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  12. Apr 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)first_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  13. Apr 1, 20268-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  14. Jan 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)fourth_quarter 2025 · $0.1 million
  15. Dec 1, 20258-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  16. Nov 18, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  17. Oct 20, 2025Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)third_quarter 2025 · $0.1 million
  18. Aug 21, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  19. Aug 20, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 0 removed
  20. Aug 1, 20258-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  21. Jul 21, 2025Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)second_quarter 2025 · $0.1 million
  22. Jul 15, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  23. Apr 21, 2025Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)first_quarter 2025 · $0.1 million
  24. Feb 25, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  25. Feb 4, 20258-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  26. Jan 21, 2025Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)fourth_quarter 2024 · $0.1 million
  27. Jan 10, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  28. Dec 20, 20248-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  29. Dec 4, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  30. Nov 13, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  31. Nov 13, 20248-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  32. Nov 1, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  33. Aug 19, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed

Peers

Companies in the same sector in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Kenvue KVUE$15.4B$1.9BJun 28, 2026
Smithfield Foods SFD$15.5B—Jun 28, 2026
Kimberly-Clark KMB$16.6B$1.8BJun 30, 2026
Molson Coors Beverage Company TAP$13.0B$1.1BDec 31, 2025
Bunge Global BG$17.9B−$1.2BMar 31, 2026
General Mills GIS$18.3B$1.6BAug 30, 2026
Pilgrim's Pride PPC$18.4B$0.8BJun 28, 2026
Hershey Company (The) HSY$12.2B$2.2BJun 28, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1001250
LEI
549300VFZ8XJ9NUPU221
Wikidata
Q1260606

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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