Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (NYSE:EL) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, January 22, with the stock price up by 1.12% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $79.70.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $78.82, falling within a range of $79.4 and $80.88. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.044 whereas the PE ratio was 142.32 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $159.75, and the low was $62.29. On the whole, EL has fluctuated by 6.32% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Estee Lauder Cos., Inc currently standing at about $28.61 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in February. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.33, with its dividend yield at 2.92%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 14.78B, with a low estimate of 3.93B and a high estimate of 4.07B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 3.98B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that EL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 13.66, with the price of EL currently trading nearly 6.14% and 8.33% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 63.61, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.92% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.95%. Furthermore, Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (EL)’s beta value is 1.02, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.52.
A comparison of Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (EL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. EL showed an intraday change of 1.12% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -36.66%%.
Data on historical trading for Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (NYSE:EL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 3.22 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 4.70 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 233.44 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 35.27% of Estee Lauder Cos., Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 57.92% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 8.59 million shares as on 2024-12-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.22. According to the data, the short interest in Estee Lauder Cos., Inc (EL) stood at 370.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-12-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-11-29 reached 7.22 million. The stock has risen by 6.30% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the EL stock heading into the next quarter.
