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e.l.f. Beauty owns e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. SKIN, rhode, Naturium and Well People. Its brands offer makeup, skin care and beauty tools at accessible prices relative to their competitors. Retailers buy its products to sell to shoppers, providing most of the company’s revenue; the rest comes through its own websites and apps and third-party online channels. The United States is its largest market.
Target, Walmart, Amazon and Sephora together account for a large share of sales. These customers have no obligation to keep buying, so consumer demand must translate into repeat orders and continued shelf space. Retailers’ holiday stocking and changes to shelf assortments also influence order timing. Keeping products relevant as beauty trends change is central to sustaining demand.
The company relies on outside manufacturers, primarily in China, to make its products, making supply availability and U.S. tariffs important to costs and pricing. Product rules also limit what it can sell and claim: its U.S. sunscreen and acne treatments must meet FDA requirements for nonprescription drugs, or it may need to reformulate them, change claims or stop selling them pending approval.
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e.l.f. Beauty’s results hinge on makeup and skin-care demand and winning retailer shelf space against major beauty groups—including L’Oréal, an important rival missing from this list.
Coty competes with e.l.f. Beauty for makeup shoppers and shelf space in mass retailers, drugstores and online stores. Watch Coty’s mass-market color cosmetics sales for clues to demand in the channels where e.l.f. sells.
Estée Lauder competes with e.l.f. Beauty for consumers’ makeup and skin-care spending, though much of its range carries prestige prices. Its makeup and skin-care sales offer a view of demand at the higher-priced end, rather than a direct read on e.l.f.’s more accessible brands.
ODDITY Tech Ltd.’s IL MAKIAGE and other beauty brands compete with e.l.f. Beauty for online makeup and skin-care customers, generally at higher prices. Watch IL MAKIAGE’s online beauty sales for clues to demand among shoppers buying beauty products online.
Kenvue’s Neutrogena and Aveeno skin-care products compete with e.l.f. SKIN and Naturium for the same mass-market skin-care shoppers.
Unilever competes with e.l.f. Beauty for consumers’ skin-care spending through its skin-care and prestige-beauty businesses, but its food and household products make overall results less comparable. Watch its skin-care and prestige-beauty sales rather than total revenue for a closer view of the demand e.l.f.’s skin-care brands face.
Kenvue Inc. earningsKVUE
Kenvue’s report will show whether its mass-market skin-care brands are selling more or less to shoppers who also have e.l.f. SKIN and Naturium to choose from.
Look at sales of Kenvue’s Neutrogena and Aveeno skin-care products. Stronger sales would suggest demand is holding among mass-market shoppers who can also choose e.l.f. SKIN and Naturium; weaker sales would signal pressure among that shared customer group, not prove how e.l.f.’s own products sold.
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. earningsThis company
This report will show whether e.l.f. Beauty’s brands can keep driving sales while pricing and product costs leave profit in the business.
Read sales growth alongside gross margin, the share of sales left after product costs. Growth with a steady margin would show that retailers and shoppers are still buying and pricing is absorbing some cost pressure. Slower growth or a falling margin would point to weaker demand, less pricing power, higher costs, or some combination; the figures show whether sales are translating into profitable growth.
COTY INC earningsCOTY
Coty’s report will show how mass-market color cosmetics are selling in retail and online channels where it and e.l.f. Beauty compete.
Look at Coty’s mass-market color-cosmetics sales. Stronger sales would suggest demand is holding in retail and online channels where Coty and e.l.f. compete; weaker sales would point to pressure among those shared-channel makeup shoppers, not confirm a change in e.l.f.’s own sales.
Retail Sales MoM (Oct)
Retail sales track how much consumers spend at stores, a key route for e.l.f. Beauty’s cosmetics and skin care; stronger spending can support retailer orders for its products and the revenue those orders bring.
If store spending strengthens, retailers may order more e.l.f. Beauty products and support sales; if it weakens, they may reduce orders and weigh on sales.
ODDITY Tech Ltd. earningsODD
ODDITY Tech’s report will show whether online beauty demand is holding up among shoppers its generally higher-priced brands share with e.l.f. Beauty.
Look at online beauty sales for IL MAKIAGE and ODDITY Tech’s other brands. Stronger sales would suggest shoppers are still buying beauty products online, a channel e.l.f. also uses; weaker sales would indicate possible pressure there, but the higher price points mean the customer groups do not fully overlap.
