e.l.f. Beauty

ELF Consumer Defensive Household & Personal Products

e.l.f. Beauty’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended March 2026) was $1.6 billion, up 24.6% from fiscal 2025.

Revenue
+51.4%
EPS
+920.0%
Free cash flow
−27.0%
Total debt
−6.96%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

111.13 2.50 −2.20%
Market cap
$6.5B
P/E
76.1×
Fwd P/E
59.3×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
3/9
Altman Z
2.60
Beneish M
−2.58
Dividend safety
n/a

e.l.f. Beauty (ELF) Free cash flow margin

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e.l.f. Beauty's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 14.2%, up 2.6 percentage points from fiscal 2026 (11.6%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −3.09% (fiscal 2016) to 20.8% (fiscal 2018); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Household & Personal Products industry median of 4.87% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.51%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2026 11.6% 2.83
FY2025 8.78% 2.68
FY2024 6.10% (11.20)
FY2023 17.3% 13.55
FY2022 3.75% (3.48)
FY2021 7.23% (5.11)
FY2020 12.3% (5.13)
FY2018 17.5% (3.31)
FY2018 20.8% 18.99
FY2017 1.79% (2.80)

Against its own ten years

Low −3.09% High 20.8%
Ten-year median 7.23%
Current reading's percentile 73

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 16.8%
IPAR Interparfums, Inc. compare 16.0%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty 14.2%
COTY Coty compare 10.4%
SPB Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. compare 10.2%
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 9.99%
CLX The Clorox Company compare 6.30%
EPC Edgewell Personal Care Company compare 2.34%
NWL Newell Brands Inc. compare 0.72%
Household & Personal Products industry median 4.87%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.51%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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