Estée Lauder Companies price to free cash flow EL

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2011.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 29.9×
10-year median: 36.1×
Against its 10-year history: 32nd; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 16.6× to 102×
Peer median: 19.6×

Estée Lauder Companies' price to free cash flow is 29.9× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 36.1×, lower than on 68% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 16.6× in Apr 2025 to 102× in Feb 2023.

The median for 8 household and personal products stocks of a similar size is 19.6×.

Price to free cash flow over time

median 36.1×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	29.9×	21.4×	40.6×
2025	37.1×	16.6×	54.9×
2024	20.1×	17.2×	68.6×
2023	63.3×	48.0×	102×
2022	59.7×	35.7×	59.7×
2021	54.0×	37.5×	54.0×
2020	43.9×	30.9×	51.2×
2019	43.4×	26.6×	43.4×
2018	27.1×	23.7×	33.6×
2017	31.1×	26.0×	32.0×
2016	25.2×	22.7×	26.3×
2015	24.3×	19.4×	26.3×
2014	26.0×	24.0×	33.2×
2013	31.1×	29.2×	41.2×
2012	37.2×	26.1×	39.2×
2011	33.0×	25.3×	34.6×

Against its peers

Companies in Household & Personal Products nearest Estée Lauder Companies' size, closest first, today.

Company	Price to free cash flow
ELEstée Lauder Companies	29.9×
KVUEKenvue	19.6×
KMBKimberly-Clark	20.1×
CHDChurch & Dwight	22.4×
CLColgate-Palmolive	19.4×
AVYAvery Dennison	13.0×
ELFe.l.f. Beauty	24.1×
REYNReynolds Consumer Products	15.2×
PGProcter & Gamble	n/m
Peer median	19.6×

What the price to free cash flow tells you

Market value divided by free cash flow: the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment. Cash is harder to manage than accounting earnings, so many investors trust this more than PE.

Lumpy: a big year of building factories drops cash flow and inflates the ratio without the business getting worse.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.