{"id":124585,"date":"2025-08-06T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124585\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:17:10","slug":"e-l-f-beauty-elf-earnings-q1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124585\/","title":{"rendered":"E.l.f. Beauty (ELF) earnings Q1 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ELF\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E.l.f. Beauty&#8217;s<\/a> profits fell 30% in its fiscal first quarter as new tariffs on Chinese imports begin to impact the cosmetic company&#8217;s bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>In the three months ended June 30, E.l.f.&#8217;s net income fell to $33.3 million, down 30% from $47.6 million a year ago. The company, which sources about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/02\/06\/china-tariffs-elf-beauty-ceo-relieved.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">75% of its products from China<\/a>, also declined to provide a full-year revenue guide, citing the &#8220;wide range of potential outcomes&#8221; related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/07\/31\/treasury-secretary-bessent-says-we-have-the-makings-of-a-deal-with-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new duties<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the company only issued guidance for the first half of the fiscal year. E.l.f. said it&#8217;s expecting sales growth to be above 9% in the first half of the year and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization margins to be 20%, compared with 23% in the first half of the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re operating in a very volatile macro environment, obviously a great deal of uncertainty on tariffs, so until we have greater resolution on what the tariff picture looks like, we didn&#8217;t think it made sense to issue guidance,&#8221; CEO Tarang Amin told CNBC in an interview. &#8220;It&#8217;s the uncertainty around the tariffs that make things more difficult.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company has already raised prices by $1 to offset tariff costs and is working to expand its business outside of the U.S. and diversify its supply chain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re under 55% tariffs on goods coming from China, and we&#8217;ve planned against that,&#8221; Amin said. &#8220;So I&#8217;m just waiting for that other shoe to drop to see OK, where do they really settle out? I never thought I would say a day that I&#8217;m happy to see 55% tariffs, but it&#8217;s a lot better than 170% so I think once we have that resolution, we&#8217;ll be in a better spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond profits, E.l.f. beat expectations on the top and bottom lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the cosmetics company performed compared with what Wall Street was anticipating, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Earnings per share:<\/strong> 89 cents adjusted vs. 84 cents expected<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revenue<\/strong>: $354 million vs. $350 million expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The company&#8217;s reported net income for the three-month period that ended June 30 was $33.3 million, or 58 cents per share, compared with $47.6 million, or 81 cents per share, a year earlier. Excluding one-time items related to stock-based compensation and other nonrecurring charges, E.l.f. saw adjusted net income of $51.3 million, or 89 cents per share.<\/p>\n<p>Sales rose to $354 million, up 9% from $324 million a year earlier. That marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/28\/elf-beauty-to-acquire-hailey-bieber-brand-rhode-in-1-billion-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second quarter in a row<\/a> where revenue growth slowed to the single digits, a pattern the company hasn&#8217;t seen since 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the past four years, E.l.f.&#8217;s sales have consistently grown in the high double digits, but that momentum has started to slow down as the beauty category overall cools off following several years of outsized growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amin said growth is expected to improve in the current quarter. He pointed out that the quarter&#8217;s 9% sales growth is on top of 50% growth in the year-ago period but acknowledged the category at large \u2014 and the state of consumer spending \u2014 has been soft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes people forget just how much we&#8217;ve been growing,&#8221; Amin said. &#8220;The category, the state of the consumer, is still challenged. There&#8217;s a lot of uncertainty with tariffs, inflation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the fiscal first quarter was slower than quarters past, Amin said Nielsen data shows the company is still taking market share and outperforming the overall category.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A key aspect of the company&#8217;s growth comes from buzzy product launches, which are often &#8220;dupes&#8221; of higher-priced prestige products. It recently launched its Bright Icon Vitamin C + E Ferulic Serum at $17, which is thought to have been inspired by a similar product from Skinceuticals, which retails for $185.<\/p>\n<p>It also released a new sunscreen and just closed on its acquisition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/28\/elf-beauty-to-acquire-hailey-bieber-brand-rhode-in-1-billion-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hailey Bieber&#8217;s beauty brand Rhode<\/a>, which will launch in all Sephora stores in the U.S. and Canada in September. The impact Rhode will have on E.l.f.&#8217;s sales, and especially its launch in Sephora, won&#8217;t be seen in its results until later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"E.l.f. 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