ELFe.l.f. Beauty, Inc.

Consumer Defensive

$109.14-22% 1Y

$109.14

$49.5752 weeks$145.07

Is it safe?

Watch

Mixed picture: a safe balance sheet and clean books, but quality weak and big price swings.

2 good, 2 to watch, 2 neutral

SurvivalSafe zone

Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.

Honest booksLow risk

Reported earnings show no manipulation flags Beneish M-score, a forensic model that detects earnings-manipulation patterns (receivables outrunning sales, margins slipping, accrual-heavy profit).

Quality3 / 9

Weak, deteriorating fundamentals Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.

Insider conviction-$8.9M

Insiders were net sellers (-$8.9M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.

Credit gradeAderived · Jun 30, 2026

Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk68% volderived · Oct 9, 2026

Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -77% · now 25% below its 52-week high.

Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Mar 31, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Volatilitybehind 85% of the market

Max drawdownbehind 70% of the market

Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.

Can ELF take a bad year?

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. carries $488M of net debt at 2.44× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.

$488M

Net debt · as at Q1 2027 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable

Net debt / EBITDA: 2.44×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.45× a year ago · the load is going up
Altman Z-score: 2.76
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
Debt / equity: 0.71×
Debt / equity