Ulta Beauty Inc.

ULTA Consumer Cyclical Specialty Retail

Ulta Beauty Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended January 2026) was $12.4 billion, up 9.71% from fiscal 2025. In the quarter to July 2026, revenue grew 8.87%, EPS grew 13.3%, free cash flow grew 96.5% and total debt rose 17.5%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; revenue growth for five consecutive years.

592.94 16.30 −2.68%
Market cap
$26.1B
P/E
21.5×
Fwd P/E
16.2×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
7.15
Beneish M
−2.39
Dividend safety
n/a

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 1.84
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — — — — — 1 — 1 — — 2 —
Insider Ownership 0.73%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 26,050.00
Revenue 12,955.52
Net Income 1,210.03
Free Cash Flow 1,149.45
Net Debt 126.13
Current Ratio 1.35
Debt/Equity 0.13 (at or below 0.5: strong)
P/E ratio 21.51
Fwd P/E 16.20
P/S ratio 1.97
P/B ratio 9.63 (above 6: high)
Past 5Y EPS Growth 52.49% (at or above 15%: strong)
This Y EPS Growth 13.19%
Next Y EPS Growth 10.89%
Next Y revenue growth 7.13%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 11.48%

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 42.54%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 26.76%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 54.22%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 26.39%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 34.65%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio —
Annual Dividend Rate —
Annual Dividend Yield —
total individual payouts
2026 Powerpack
2025 Powerpack
2024 Powerpack
2023 Powerpack
2022 Powerpack
2021 Powerpack
2020 Powerpack
2018 Powerpack
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2024 2025 2026 Q'26
Cash 767 703 494 213
Receivables 208 223 296 249
Inventory 1,742 1,968 2,181 2,407
Other — — — —
2,837 3,029 3,144 3,069
2024 2025 2026 Q'26
Payables 544 564 686 646
ST’ Debt — — 62 340
Other — — — —
1,658 1,779 2,224 2,281

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 12.19% 15.04% 6.68%
Cash Flow 14.86% 13.15% 0.47%
Earnings 13.68% 45.67% (2.45%)
Book Value 6.87% 6.99% 12.67%

Revenue $m

Apr Jul Oct Jan Year
’26 3,164 3,036 — — —
’26 2,848 2,788 2,858 3,898 12,393
’25 2,726 2,552 2,530 3,488 11,296
’24 2,634 2,530 2,489 3,554 11,207
’23 2,346 2,297 2,339 3,227 10,209
’22 1,939 1,967 1,996 2,729 8,631
’21 1,173 1,228 1,552 2,199 6,152
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Apr Jul Oct Jan Year
’26 262 120 — — —
’26 220 97 6 1,181 1,503
’25 159 200 (57) 1,037 1,339
’24 305 124 (71) 1,118 1,476
’23 426 114 33 908 1,482
’22 330 71 13 644 1,059
’21 (24) 40 243 551 810
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Apr Jul Oct Jan Year
’26 204 38 — — —
’26 141 20 (82) 989 1,068
’25 68 104 (171) 963 964
’24 195 29 (177) 994 1,041
’23 355 65 (51) 800 1,170
’22 296 49 (38) 581 887
’21 (66) 5 203 516 658
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Apr Jul Oct Jan Year
’26 7.74 6.55 — — —
’26 6.70 5.78 5.14 8.01 25.64
’25 6.47 5.30 5.14 8.46 25.34
’24 6.88 6.02 5.07 8.08 26.03
’23 6.30 5.70 5.34 6.68 24.01
’22 4.10 4.56 3.94 5.41 17.98
’21 (1.39) 0.14 1.32 3.03 3.11
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.8
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to January

Group Line 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Trend 2027e 2028e 2029e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 187.96 191.70 222.00 124.05 276.00 330.80 368.02 318.17 309.01 443.60

Analyst estimates 2027–2029

Powerpack
High 314.86 322.49 368.83 304.65 417.85 483.80 556.60 574.76 616.34 714.97
People
People Employees 31,800 34,700 44,000 44,000 37,000 40,500 53,000 56,000 58,000 65,000
Revenue/emp, $m 0.15 0.17 0.15 0.17 0.17 0.21 0.19 0.20 0.19 0.19
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 4,855 5,885 6,717 7,398 6,152 8,631 10,209 11,207 11,296 12,393
Gross margin, % 35.99 35.63 35.87 36.24 31.68 39.03 39.62 39.09 38.84 39.10
EBT 656 787 859 906 231 1,296 1,644 1,696 1,580 1,531
EBT margin, % 13.51 13.37 12.79 12.25 3.76 15.01 16.10 15.13 13.99 12.36
Net income 410 555 659 706 176 986 1,242 1,291 1,201 1,153
Depreciation 210 253 279 296 298 268 241 244 267 301
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 77.65 95.60 112.20 127.91 109.17 158.42 198.60 227.31 239.28 276.37
Earnings 6.55 9.02 11.00 12.21 3.12 18.09 24.17 26.18 25.44 25.72
Cash flow 10.15 12.66 15.97 19.04 14.38 19.44 28.83 29.94 28.36 33.51
Capex (5.97) (7.16) (5.34) (5.16) (2.69) (3.16) (6.07) (8.83) (7.93) (9.70)
Free cash flow 4.17 5.50 10.64 13.88 11.69 16.28 22.76 21.11 20.42 23.82
Book value 24.80 28.82 30.41 32.89 35.48 28.18 38.13 46.23 52.71 62.52
Shares, m 63 62 60 58 56 54 51 49 47 45
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 41.57 24.60 26.49 21.94 90.45 20.06 21.26 19.17 16.17 25.87
P/S 3.51 2.32 2.60 2.09 2.59 2.30 2.59 2.21 1.72 2.41
P/B 10.98 7.71 9.60 8.15 7.95 12.91 13.48 10.86 7.82 10.65
EV/Sales 3.42 2.26 2.54 2.29 2.59 2.37 2.62 2.23 1.75 2.44
EV/FCF 63.65 39.20 26.80 21.09 24.16 23.06 22.88 24.00 20.49 28.29
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 634 779 956 1,101 810 1,059 1,482 1,476 1,339 1,503
Capex (373) (441) (319) (299) (152) (172) (312) (435) (374) (435)
Free cash flow 261 339 637 803 658 887 1,170 1,041 964 1,068
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 1,007 1,052 1,091 918 1,171 723 1,028 1,178 1,249 920
Total debt — — — 240 253 274 283 — — 62
Net debt (415) (397) (409) (262) (793) (158) (455) (767) (703) (432)
Shareholders’ equity 1,550 1,774 1,820 1,902 2,000 1,535 1,960 2,279 2,488 2,803
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 17.13 20.34 21.59 17.53 3.53 20.01 24.52 23.31 20.52 17.74
ROIC 36.05 35.65 37.83 34.35 12.27 58.86 68.05 69.33 54.79 40.40
ROE 27.27 33.40 36.64 37.93 9.01 55.78 71.09 60.91 50.39 43.59
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Jan 2026 · latest quarter Jul 2026

Charts ten years each

Ulta Beauty Inc. vs peers in Specialty Retail (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
WSM Williams-Sonoma, Inc. $29.7B 25.3× 21.9× +6.70% (above 0%: growing) +41.38% (above 0%: growing) +108.42% (above 0%: growing) 51.64% 22.90% Compare
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc. $26.1B 21.5× 16.2× +8.87% (above 0%: growing) +13.28% (above 0%: growing) +96.46% (above 0%: growing) 39.10% 12.51%
CASY Casey's General Stores, Inc. $24.9B 33.0× 37.3× +24.33% (above 0%: growing) +27.59% (above 0%: growing) −30.95% (below 0%: shrinking) 21.82% 6.50% Compare
BBY Best Buy Co., Inc. $19.8B 15.3× 11.4× +3.61% (above 0%: growing) +69.32% (above 0%: growing) +28.40% (above 0%: growing) 23.91% 4.31% Compare
TSCO Tractor Supply Company $17.4B 17.3× 14.0× +2.29% (above 0%: growing) −14.81% (below 0%: shrinking) −38.48% (below 0%: shrinking) 37.05% 10.29% Compare
GME GameStop Corp. $14.1B 13.4× 70.5× −18.72% (below 0%: shrinking) +76.32% (above 0%: growing) +115.70% (above 0%: growing) 43.66% 20.27% Compare
DKS DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. $12.5B 15.2× 15.3× +53.21% (above 0%: growing) −26.35% (below 0%: shrinking) −55.09% (below 0%: shrinking) 34.78% 7.89% Compare
FIVE Five Below, Inc. $12.3B 19.8× 21.2× +22.85% (above 0%: growing) +415.38% (above 0%: growing) +194.67% (above 0%: growing) 48.55% 21.83% Compare
MUSA Murphy USA Inc. $10.0B 16.5× 17.2× +35.99% (above 0%: growing) +52.42% (above 0%: growing) −10.68% (below 0%: shrinking) 10.97% 4.48% Compare
Median of peers $15.8B 16.9× 19.2× +14.78% +46.90% +8.86% 35.91% 9.09%

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ULTA metrics, ten years each

Ulta Beauty Inc. (ULTA) key facts

  • Concern: Net income was $1.2 billion, or $25.72 per share (basic), a net margin of 9.31%.
  • Strength: Ulta Beauty Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended January 2026) was $12.4 billion, up 9.71% from fiscal 2025.
  • Ulta Beauty Inc. (ULTA) is a Specialty Retail company in the Consumer Cyclical sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • As of October 16, 2026, ULTA traded at $592.94, a market capitalization of $26.1 billion.
  • At that price the stock trades at 21.5× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 2.0× sales; its P/E is higher than 43% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Return on equity was 43.6% and debt-to-equity 0.13.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 6 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 7.15 (safe zone) for fiscal 2026.

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31 Aug

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