So Another How To Fish lesson: I surf these ideas and it comes to me in a flash it's notULTA a $300 stock obviously and we have this news-
Ulta Beauty director Charles Heilbronn sold $130.45M in common stock 17:28 ULTA In a regulatory filing, Ulta Beauty disclosed that its board member Charles Heilbronn sold 427K shares of common stock on March 24th in a total transaction size of $130.45M.
But:
Behold, the most popular makeup brands around.
- Anastasia Beverly Hills.
- NYX Professional Makeup.
- MAC.
- E.L.F. Cosmetics.<---------- That sounds familiar!
- Kat Von D.
- L'Oréal Paris.
Maybelline.
Market Summary>e.l.f. Beauty Inc (ELF)
$27.11USD+0.46(1.73%)
And lookie lookie>
e.l.f. Beauty stock looks like a buy, Barron's says 03/20 ELF Stay-at-home orders have gutted demand for makeup during the pandemic, but now with an economic reopening near, the picture is brightening for cosmetic companies and their shares, Teresa Rivas writes in this week's edition of Barron's. And even during lockdown, consumers have been connecting with e.l.f. Beauty, whose loyalty program recently had 2.3M members, up 40%, year over year, the author notes
Price Targets are $29 or $30.... So it's near fair value we need a pull in and a pick up
in the $26 area.<-----
e.l.f. Beauty price target raised to $29 from $26 at JPMorgan 03/02 ELF JPMorgan analyst Andrea Teixeira raised the firm's price target on e.l.f. Beauty to $29 from $26 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares after meeting with management. The analyst came away "incrementally more positive" on e.l.f.'s ability to navigate the current operating environment and its ability to deliver on its three-year economic model. Teixeira anticipates the underlying business momentum for e.l.f. Beauty to continue.
Cosmetics Stocks with the Most Profit Growth or Least Profit Decline
Ulta Beauty Inc. (
ULTA)
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (
EL)
Cosmetics Stocks with the Most Momentum
e.l.f. Beauty Inc. (
ELF)<----------
e.l.f. Beauty Inc.:e.l.f. Beauty provides mainly low-priced cosmetics products for the eyes, lips, and face. It offers eyeliners, lipsticks, powder, skin care products, and more. The company announced in early February financial results for Q3 FY 2021, which ended December 31, 2020. Net income fell 46.3% despite net sales rising 9.7%. Earnings were adversely impacted by selling, general and administrative expenses rising at a much faster rate than net sales.
Those trends should reverse.