Estée Lauder Companies Stock News

Estée Lauder's turnaround is real: management is cutting costs, fixing past mistakes, and shifting aggressively to digital and direct-to-consumer channels. The China and travel retail overexposure is being addressed, with a focus on healthier, more sustainable sales models and less reliance on inventory dumping. Restructuring is purposeful, targeting $1B in annual savings by 2027 and reinvestin...

Estée Lauder Companies (EL 1.58%) stock was smelling sweet on the last trading day of the week. It had an analyst's recommendation upgrade to thank for that; following the change, investors traded the shares up modestly.

Estée Lauder's stock continues its descent as uncertainty around trade negotiations persists. While investors should not anticipate smooth sailing ahead, the odds are stacked in favor of long-term investors. EL stock is priced very conservatively in relation to the company's long-term margin potential, and this justifies a Buy rating in the face of more near-term volatility.

Estée Lauder (NYSE: EL) shares surged on Monday after Deutsche Bank's Stephen Powers upgraded the stock from Hold to Buy, citing improved fundamentals and signs of a bottoming global beauty market.

Well before market open on Monday, Estée Lauder Companies (EL 4.84%) stock received a boost without the company even trying. An analyst upgraded his recommendation on the storied cosmetics company, and investors greeted the news by boosting its share price by nearly 5%.

Michael Burry, the hedge fund manager famously portrayed in The Big Short , has been anything but conventional in 2025. Last quarter, he liquidated nearly his entire portfolio, keeping just one stock: Estée Lauder Companies Inc.(NYSE: EL).

Hedge funds made some pretty interesting bets in the first quarter of this year, and a lot of them, I believe, have mostly flown under the radar of investors.

Estee Lauder's son - a "cosmetics industry icon" who built the make-up brand into a global powerhouse - has died aged 92.