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) Return on invested capital

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e.l.f. Beauty's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 6.44%, up 3.7 percentage points from fiscal 2026 (2.70%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −17.5% (fiscal 2015) to 22.7% (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 44% of that period. That is above the Household & Personal Products industry median of 0.57% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.96%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2026 2.70% (8.67)
FY2025 11.4% (0.37)
FY2024 11.7% (0.20)
FY2023 11.9% 6.86
FY2022 5.08% 3.34
FY2021 1.74% (3.85)
FY2020 5.59% 5.59
FY2019 0.00% (4.98)
FY2018 4.98% 4.98
FY2018 0.00% (6.11)

Against its own ten years

Low −17.5% High 22.7%
Ten-year median 4.98%
Current reading's percentile 44

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
CLX The Clorox Company compare 16.7%
IPAR Interparfums, Inc. compare 16.6%
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 11.3%
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 7.87%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty 6.44%
SPB Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. compare 3.28%
NWL Newell Brands Inc. compare 0.65%
EPC Edgewell Personal Care Company compare 0.48%
COTY Coty compare −1.03%
Household & Personal Products industry median 0.57%
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.96%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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