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) Operating margin

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e.l.f. Beauty's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 8.87%, up 4.4 percentage points from fiscal 2026 (4.50%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −39.1% (fiscal 2015) to 24.7% (fiscal 2017); the current reading is higher than 20% of that period. That is above the Household & Personal Products industry median of 1.31% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.70%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2026 4.50% (7.53)
FY2025 12.0% (2.59)
FY2024 14.6% 2.85
FY2023 11.8% 4.18
FY2022 7.59% 4.64
FY2021 2.95% (7.64)
FY2020 10.6% 0.81
FY2018 9.78% (9.79)
FY2018 19.6% 7.24
FY2017 12.3% (12.33)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 10.1% (11.30)
Jun 2026 21.4% 32.57
Mar 2026 −11.2% (25.00)
Dec 2025 13.8% 11.56
37 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −39.1% High 24.7%
Ten-year median 11.8%
Current reading's percentile 51

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 18.0%
IPAR Interparfums, Inc. compare 17.9%
CLX The Clorox Company compare 14.6%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty 8.87%
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 6.67%
SPB Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. compare 4.03%
NWL Newell Brands Inc. compare 0.98%
EPC Edgewell Personal Care Company compare 0.79%
COTY Coty compare −1.66%
Household & Personal Products industry median 1.31%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.70%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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