Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$67.43
+3.60% today
1Y Change
-45.81%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026
Coverage: 249 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. (ELF) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $3.51B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $67.43 and down 45.8% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +28.3%, EPS growth of -14.6%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +28.3%, EPS -14.6%, free cash flow +84.5% with operating margin 11.1% and ROIC 5.7%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 33.9 and price/sales 2.3. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a higher-growth but lower-margin setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines ELF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
ELF is 63.80 pts behind over the shared 1Y window.
ELF had 57.07 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
ELF beat SPY in 0 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 2.
ELF
-45.81%
Normalized return
SPY
+17.99%
S&P 500
Excess Return
-63.80 pts
Relative to SPY
ELF Max Drawdown
-66.20%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for ELF and SPY.
| Year | ELF | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | -13.34% | +6.71% | -20.05 pts | SPY |
| 2025 | -38.28% | +11.19% | -49.48 pts | SPY |
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$318.1M
-18.9% YoY
FY Net Income
$6.2M
-71.4% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$23.0M
+56.5% YoY
Revenue Growth
+28.3%
EPS Growth
-14.6%
Gross Margin
70.3%
Net Margin
6.8%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.3B | 1.0B | 579M | 392M | 318M |
| Gross Profit | 936M | 724M | 390M | 252M | 206M |
| Operating Income | 158M | 150M | 68M | 30M | 9M |
| EBITDA | 206M | 183M | 85M | 55M | 32M |
| Net Income | 112M | 128M | 62M | 22M | 6M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 149M | 108M | 121M | 43M | 58M |
| Total Assets | 1.2B | 1.1B | 596M | 495M | 487M |
| Total Liabilities | 487M | 487M | 185M | 182M | 218M |
| Shareholder Equity | 761M | 643M | 411M | 312M | 270M |
| Total Debt | 313M | 291M | 82M | 117M | 151M |
| Net Debt | 164M | 182M | -39M | 74M | 93M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
29M
+51.1% YoY
Capital Expenditures
6M
-34.4% YoY
Free Cash Flow
23M
+56.5% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
70.3%
Operating Margin
11.1%
Net Margin
6.8%
ROE
10.8%
Debt / Equity
0.80x
Next Step
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