e.l.f. Beauty Financial Ratios
NYSE: ELFConsumer DiscretionaryPackage Goods/CosmeticsUSD
At close: Oct 9, 4:00 PM ET · Delayed 15 min
e.l.f. Beauty ratio analysis
e.l.f. Beauty earned a net margin of 1.6% in FY 2026, down from 8.5% a year earlier. Gross margin was 70.7% compared with a median of 64.2% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 2.3%, meaning e.l.f. Beauty generated 0.02 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.74 versus 0.34 the year before, and the current ratio was 2.35. At the end of FY 2026, ELF traded at 139.0 times earnings; across the 9 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 24.0 to 224.5, with a median of 64.1. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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e.l.f. Beauty financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2026 | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 139.00 | 28.61 | 88.70 | 74.19 | 64.15 | 224.50 | 24.00 | 29.19 | 32.81 | — |
| Price / sales | 2.18 | 2.35 | 10.48 | 7.47 | 3.42 | 4.18 | 1.44 | 1.64 | 3.75 | 1.59 |
| Price / book | 3.15 | 4.06 | 16.70 | 10.51 | 4.29 | 4.93 | 1.68 | 1.91 | 5.22 | 2.59 |
| Gross margin | 70.7% | 71.2% | 70.7% | 67.4% | 64.2% | 64.8% | 64.0% | 60.9% | 61.0% | 57.6% |
| Operating margin | 4.5% | 12.0% | 14.6% | 11.8% | 7.6% | 3.0% | 10.6% | 9.8% | 12.3% | 10.1% |
| Net margin | 1.6% | 8.5% | 12.5% | 10.6% | 5.6% | 2.0% | 6.3% | 5.8% | 12.4% | 2.3% |
| Free cash flow margin | 11.6% | 8.8% | 6.1% | 17.3% | 3.7% | 7.2% | 12.3% | 17.5% | 1.8% | -3.1% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 2.3% | 14.7% | 19.9% | 15.0% | 7.0% | 2.3% | 7.4% | 6.8% | 17.3% | 3.8% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 1.1% | 9.0% | 11.3% | 10.3% | 4.4% | 1.3% | 3.9% | 3.6% | 8.0% | 1.3% |
| Debt / equity | 0.74 | 0.34 | 0.41 | 0.16 | 0.31 | 0.47 | 0.57 | 0.66 | 0.81 | 1.17 |
| Current ratio | 2.35 | 3.05 | 1.59 | 2.81 | 2.97 | 2.32 | 2.59 | 3.30 | 2.41 | 1.56 |
| Revenue growth | 24.6% | 28.3% | 76.9% | 47.6% | 23.3% | 12.5% | 5.8% | -0.9% | 17.6% | 19.9% |
| EPS growth | -77.1% | -13.1% | 99.1% | 170.7% | 241.7% | -65.7% | 9.4% | -52.9% | — | — |