Ulta Beauty ULTA

Specialty Retail, Consumer Cyclical

$624.46

−1.66%

Market cap: $26.7B
PE: 22.8×; 10y median 23.0×
Forward PE: 20.4×; 10y median 22.1×
Price to sales: 2.1×
EV/EBIT: 16.6×
Revenue, 12 months: $13B; +11% on a year ago
Net margin: 9.3%
Free cash flow yield: 4.3%

Ulta Beauty trades at 22.8× trailing earnings, near its ten-year median. Revenue was $13B over the last twelve months, up 11% on a year earlier with a 9% net margin.

Charts

Financials

Income statement for ULTA, by quarter
Income statement	Q3 FY23	Q4 FY23	Q1 FY24	Q2 FY24	Q3 FY24	Q4 FY24	Q1 FY25	Q2 FY25	Q3 FY25	Q4 FY25	Q1 FY26	Q2 FY26
	$2.5B+6%	$3.6B+10%	$2.7B+4%	$2.6B+1%	$2.5B+2%	$3.5B−2%	$2.8B+5%	$2.8B+9%	$2.9B+13%	$3.9B+12%	$3.2B+11%	$3B+9%
Cost of revenue	$1.5B+9%	$2.2B+10%	$1.7B+5%	$1.6B+3%	$1.5B+2%	$2.2B−3%	$1.7B+5%	$1.7B+8%	$1.7B+12%	$2.4B+12%	$1.9B+9%	$1.8B+9%
Gross profit	$992.1M+3%	$1.3B+11%	$1.1B+1%	$978.2M−2%	$1B+1%	$1.3B−1%	$1.1B+4%	$1.1B+12%	$1.2B+15%	$1.5B+11%	$1.3B+14%	$1.2B+9%
SG&A	$661.4M+11%	$820.4M+8%	$665.9M+9%	$644.8M+7%	$682.3M+3%	$815.6M−1%	$710.6M+7%	$741.7M+15%	$840.9M+23%	$1B+23%	$814.7M+15%	$802.8M+8%
	$327.2M−10%	$517.1M+16%	$400.9M−9%	$329.2M−16%	$318.5M−3%	$516.3M−0%	$401.8M+0%	$344.9M+5%	$309.4M−3%	$476.9M−8%	$448.3M+12%	$379.6M+10%
Interest expense	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	−$1.7M	−$2M	n/a	−$1.4M	$4.1M	$2.6M	n/a	$3.7M
Pre-tax income	$329.7M−9%	$520.4M+15%	$407.8M−9%	$333.7M−16%	$320.2M−3%	$518.3M−0%	$405.3M−1%	$346.3M+4%	$305.3M−5%	$474.3M−9%	$448.9M+11%	$376M+9%
	$80.2M−9%	$126M+13%	$94.7M−8%	$81.2M−15%	$78M−3%	$125M−1%	$99.6M+5%	$84.8M+5%	$73.4M−6%	$116M−7%	$106.9M+7%	$91.9M+8%
Net income	$249.5M−9%	$394.4M+16%	$313.1M−10%	$252.6M−16%	$242.2M−3%	$393.3M−0%	$305.1M−3%	$260.9M+3%	$230.9M−5%	$356.7M−9%	$340.5M+12%	$282M+8%
	$5.07−5%	$8.06+21%	$6.47−6%	$5.30−12%	$5.14+1%	$8.46+5%	$6.70+4%	$5.78+9%	$5.14+0%	$8.01−5%	$7.74+16%	$6.55+13%
	49.2M−4%	48.9M−4%	48.4M−4%	47.7M−4%	47.1M−4%	46.5M−5%	45.5M−6%	45.1M−5%	44.9M−5%	44.5M−4%	44M−3%	43.1M−5%

EPS, diluted: 5 periods, Q4 FY21 to Q4 FY25: quarter's net income to common over its shares, to the cent.

Diluted shares: 16 periods, Q4 FY10 to Q4 FY25: share-days: the 12-month average less the 9-month, weighted by days.

From each company's 10-Q and 10-K filings, the newest version of each figure. Quarters are as filed (a fourth quarter is the year less its first nine months), fiscal years as the 10-K prints them, restated where a later 10-K restated them, and balance sheet lines as of the period's end. A quarter whose 10-Q isn't filed yet is from the company's results release. Growth is on the same period a year earlier. A dash is a period with no figure for the line: the filing doesn't print it, or it hasn't been read yet.

Estimates

Next earnings report: Dec 3, 2026.

Quarter	Revenue	Range	EPS	Range	Analysts
Q3 FY26	$3B	$3B to $3B	$5.63	$5.46 to $5.76	14
Q4 FY26	$4.1B	$4.1B to $4.1B	$9.13	$8.98 to $9.32	13
Q1 FY27	$3.3B	$3.3B to $3.3B	$8.49	$8.37 to $8.61	10
Q2 FY27	$3.2B	$3.2B to $3.2B	$7.30	$7.20 to $7.41	5
Q3 FY27	$3.1B	$3.1B to $3.2B	$6.36	$6.27 to $6.45	5
Q4 FY27	$4.3B	$4.3B to $4.3B	$10.05	$9.92 to $10.20	6
Q1 FY28	$3.5B	$3.5B to $3.6B	$9.35	$9.22 to $9.48	6
Q2 FY28	$3.4B	$3.3B to $3.4B	$8.24	$8.13 to $8.36	6

Peers

Companies in Specialty Retail nearest Ulta Beauty's size, closest first.

Company	Market cap	PE	Its 10y median PE	Fwd PE	P/S	Revenue growth	Net margin
ULTAUlta Beauty	$26.7B	22.8×	23.0×	20.4×	2.1×	+11%	9.3%
CASYCasey's General Stores	$25.8B	33.7×	23.9×	32.9×	1.4×	+14%	4.1%
CPNGCoupang	$25B	n/m	77.1×	139×	0.7×	+10%	−2.2%
WSMWilliams-Sonoma	$29.7B	25.8×	15.9×	25.5×	3.7×	+2%	14.7%
BBYBest Buy	$20.9B	16.6×	14.5×	n/m	0.5×	+1%	3.0%
TSCOTractor Supply	$17.4B	17.4×	23.3×	n/m	1.1×	+4%	6.4%
AZOAutoZone	$52.3B	22.0×	19.2×	18.9×	2.6×	+6%	12.4%
EBAYeBay	$54B	25.1×	16.3×	19.4×	4.5×	+15%	18.5%
DKSDick's Sporting Goods	$12.9B	15.5×	12.6×	n/m	0.6×	+54%	4.0%
GMEGameStop	$12.5B	16.3×	29.1×	n/m	3.5×	−8%	25.2%
ORLYO'Reilly Automotive	$72.7B	28.6×	23.9×	25.9×	3.9×	+8%	14.3%
Peer median	$25.4B	22.0×	21.2×	25.7×	2.0×	+7%	9.4%