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Estee Lauder Companies (EL) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Estee Lauder Companies has reported Return on Equity over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.09% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Equity at 0.09% for Q4 2025, up 4.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.09% (up 4.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.23%, up 33.0%.
  • Return on Equity for Q4 2025 was 0.09% at Estee Lauder Companies, up from 0.48% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Equity for EL hit a ceiling of 1.22% in Q3 2021 and a floor of 0.48% in Q3 2025.
  • Median Return on Equity over the past 5 years was 0.19% (2024), compared with a mean of 0.33%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Equity: soared 438bps in 2021 and later plummeted -71bps in 2023.
  • Estee Lauder Companies' Return on Equity stood at 1.19% in 2021, then crashed by -57bps to 0.51% in 2022, then plummeted by -86bps to 0.07% in 2023, then plummeted by -282bps to 0.13% in 2024, then soared by 31bps to 0.09% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Equity were 0.09% (Q4 2025), 0.48% (Q3 2025), and 0.28% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.