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ELF Beauty Inc (ELF) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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e.l.f. Beauty makes and sells cosmetics and skin-care products, including eye, lip, face and skin lines, under names such as e.l.f.

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for ELF, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index HALO Growth 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

HALO Growth 100 · as of 2026-11-06

DayWeekMonth3 months
ELF+5.7%+4.0%+9.6%+21.9%
Better Food, Clean Label & Functional−1.0%−1.1%+1.1%—
HALO Growth 100+0.3%+0.6%+1.3%—

Against the index: 3.4 pts ahead on the week, 8.3 pts ahead on the month; against its Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve 8.5 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 1 piece · newest: Midday 10, “The morning chip slide rounds back to flat; oil takes the bid” (2026-08-31)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where ELF appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 47/100 · S&P 500 fund at 48, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-06
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 60th percentile of the window, -22.8% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-06
  • Sector × region Consumer staples in US: +0.7% week · +8.0% month · +6.7% quarter · +10.8% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLP.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-11-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index -1.91 · down 2.45 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-06
How it trades on rate days beta 0.32 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How ELF has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.32 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), ELF Beauty Inc moved 0.32% on average · correlation 0.05 · higher than 22% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.94 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.44% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.21% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against HALO Growth 100 · Better Food, Clean Label & Functional · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

HALO Growth 100 · Better Food, Clean Label & Functional

Flavour and fragrance houses, premium-format restaurants, functional-beverage challengers. Where consumer behaviour is actually changing.

Compared against ELF on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — ELF Beauty Inc

ELF in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
e.l.f. Beauty makes and sells cosmetics and skin-care products, including eye, lip, face and skin lines, under names such as e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. Skin, Well People, Naturium and Rhode. It reaches shoppers through retailers worldwide and through its own online store. The company is based in Oakland, California, and began under a different name before adopting its current one.
Where it sits in the stack
ELF sits in our HALO Growth 100, a growth index outside the megacaps, within the Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve — a grouping built around retailers, restaurant formats and beverage challengers where consumer habits are actually shifting. Inside that sleeve ELF stands for changing beauty spend rather than food spend, a discretionary name competing for the same shifting wallet the sleeve tracks.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with Sprouts Farmers Market, Chipotle, Givaudan, Symrise, Dutch Bros, CAVA, Bellring Brands and Freshpet, on the reasoning that all sit where consumer behaviour is changing; the market also names Estee Lauder as a comparison outside that group.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
ELF holds a seat in the HALO Growth 100 and carries a Closelooknet score whose momentum reading is both its strongest and its weakest signal at once. The diary's Midday 10 quoted it as a notable gainer on a session when the broader tape was soft, and its directional flow readings place it among the faster movers and steadier builders in that ranking.
What the diary watches
Whether the momentum reading holds once the stock drops out of the faster-movers list, and whether its rank among steadier builders shifts as the flow tables update.

ELF Beauty Inc (ELF) trades on US exchanges, classified under Consumer Defensive. Constituent of HALO Growth 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 57/100 composite (momentum 98, quality 49, valuation 30) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 5 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Raymond James, 2026-11-05 · last print 2026-11-04

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for ELF from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Raymond James — target 132 Target set to $132 (+16.2% to spot) 2026-11-05
  • Price target Deutsche Bank — target 105 from 78 Target raised to $105 from $78 (-8.5% to spot) 2026-10-21
  • Price target UBS — target 116 from 89 Target raised to $116 from $89 (+2.5% to spot) 2026-10-15
  • Latest print EPS 1.21 against 0.59 expected — a +103.4% beat 2026-11-04

5 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 5 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return no distribution in twelve months · buybacks 50 m USD in FY2026

Dividends and capital return

What ELF pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Distributions No cash distribution recorded in the price series over the last three years
  • Buybacks, FY2026 50 m USD 0.8% of today's market value
  • Share count +1.7% in FY2026 87 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 50 m USD · 26% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-07

Quick answers

What is ELF Beauty Inc (ELF)?

ELF Beauty Inc trades as ELF on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Consumer Defensive in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-07.

Is ELF in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — ELF Beauty Inc is a constituent of HALO Growth 100, as of 2026-11-07.

What is ELF Beauty Inc's Closelooknet composite score?

57 out of 100, with momentum 98, quality 49 and valuation 30 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-07. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does ELF trade against its moving averages?

ELF Beauty Inc trades 3.6% above its 50-day and 34.4% above its 200-day moving average (2.3% below its 20-day). As of 2026-11-05 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is ELF doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month ELF Beauty Inc is +9.6% against +1.3% for the HALO Growth 100 — 8.3 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-11-06. Its Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve is +1.1% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does ELF Beauty Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (HALO Growth 100 · Better Food, Clean Label & Functional), ELF Beauty Inc (ELF) sits 25.7% below its 52-week high, 3.6% above its 50-day average; Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (CMG) is 17.3% below, Sprouts Farmers Market LLC (SFM) is 54.9% below, Givaudan SA (GIVN.SW) is 0.8% below, as of 2026-11-05. Put any of them next to ELF in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does ELF Beauty Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year ELF Beauty Inc had a beta of 0.32 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 22% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.44% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-06; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about ELF Beauty Inc?

ELF Beauty Inc appears in 1 Closelooknet piece as of 2026-11-07, most recently Midday 10: The morning chip slide rounds back to flat; oil takes the bid (2026-08-31). What Closelooknet said most recently: ELF is up 4.52% to 108.81 by midday, one of the broader market's more notable outliers on a soft tape. (Midday 10, 2026-08-31). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does ELF Beauty Inc do?

e.l.f. Beauty makes and sells cosmetics and skin-care products, including eye, lip, face and skin lines, under names such as e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. Closelooknet's peer group places it with Sprouts Farmers Market, Chipotle, Givaudan, Symrise, Dutch Bros, CAVA, Bellring Brands and Freshpet, on the reasoning that all sit where consumer behaviour is changing; the market also names Estee Lauder as a comparison outside that group. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does ELF Beauty Inc sit in the AI build-out?

ELF sits in our HALO Growth 100, a growth index outside the megacaps, within the Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve — a grouping built around retailers, restaurant formats and beverage challengers where consumer habits are actually shifting. Inside that sleeve ELF stands for changing beauty spend rather than food spend, a discretionary name competing for the same shifting wallet the sleeve tracks. ELF holds a seat in the HALO Growth 100 and carries a Closelooknet score whose momentum reading is both its strongest and its weakest signal at once. The diary's Midday 10 quoted it as a notable gainer on a session when the broader tape was soft, and its directional flow readings place it among the faster movers and steadier builders in that ranking. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does ELF Beauty Inc pay a dividend?

No cash distribution shows in ELF Beauty Inc’s price series over the last three years. In fiscal 2026 the company bought back 50 m USD of its own shares, 26% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 1.7% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-06; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on ELF Beauty Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on ELF Beauty Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Raymond James on 2026-11-05 (target 132). 5 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 5 target changes. Its latest earnings print on the wire, 2026-11-04: EPS 1.21 against 0.59 expected — a +103.4% beat. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

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