profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
L'Oréal
€451.20+0.97% today
+24.5% since Dec 23, 25
1-year low €344.901-year high €455.60
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay €39.27 for every €1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What L'Oréal sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €38.3 billion in 2022 to €44.1 billion in 2025, with €6.13 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
L'Oréal handed back 62% of the cash it generated last year.
€3.9B
Free cash flow 2025€7.2B
Bought back its own shares€502M
Paid as dividends€3.9B
Cash vs. debt€9.9B vs. €11.9B
L'Oréal vs. similar companies
L'Oréal grows the fastest of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from €100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per €1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Oréal | 39.3× · Expensive | ||
 Procter & Gamble | 24.5× · Fair price | ||
 Unilever | 13.7× · Cheap | ||
 Colgate-Palmolive | 37.2× · Expensive | ||
 Kimberly-Clark | 33.2× · Expensive |
Compare L'Oréal with Costco · Coca-Cola · Procter & Gamble · Philip Morris International · Walmart
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads L'Oréal's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38,261 | 41,183 | 43,487 | 44,052 | |
| 27,683 | 30,416 | 32,260 | 32,739 | |
| 7,457 | 8,143 | 8,688 | 8,892 | |
| 9,224 | 9,945 | 10,673 | 10,694 | |
| 5,707 | 6,184 | 6,409 | 6,127 | |
| 10.61 | 11.52 | 11.95 | 11.44 | |
| 72.4% | 73.9% | 74.2% | 74.3% | |
| 19.5% | 19.8% | 20.0% | 20.2% | |
| 14.9% | 15.0% | 14.7% | 13.9% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 46,844 | 51,855 | 56,353 | 61,821 |
| Cash | 2,618 | 4,288 | 4,052 | 9,865 |
| Total debt | 5,651 | 8,692 | 8,495 | 11,916 |
| Total liabilities | 19,658 | 22,774 | 23,216 | 26,817 |
| 27,179 | 29,074 | 33,133 | 34,953 | |
| 538 | 537 | 536 | 535 | |
| 17.6% | 16.3% | 15.9% | 14.2% | |
| 21.0% | 21.3% | 19.3% | 17.5% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,278 | 7,605 | 8,286 | 8,657 | |
| 1,343 | 1,489 | 1,642 | 1,495 | |
| 4,935 | 6,116 | 6,644 | 7,162 | |
| Dividends paid | 2,690 | 3,426 | 3,615 | 3,917 |
| 502 | 503 | 498 | 502 | |
| 169 | 169 | 239 | 248 |
Valuation
- 39.3×
- –
- 15.45
- 6.6×
- 5.5×
- 33.6×
- 22.7×
- 3.0%
- 2.5%
- 1.6%
Profitability
- 74.3%
- 20.2%
- 13.9%
- –
- 14.2%
- 16.0%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +4.8%
- +2.5%
- –
- –
- −0.1%
Financial health
- 0.2×
- 0.34
- –
- 23.7×
- 1.44
- –
- –
How it ranks in Consumer Staples
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 26%of 669
Top 17%of 672
Bottom 13%of 623
Bottom 45%of 671
Bottom 31%of 666
1.6%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$16a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
63.9% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 54.7%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
2/7Passes 2 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
65Pass
Benjamin Graham
38No pass
Philip Fisher
56No pass
Peter Lynch
24No pass
Joel Greenblatt
18No pass
Charlie Munger
61Pass
Terry Smith
58No pass
Questions about L'Oréal
Is L'Oréal a good stock to buy?
A solid business, but the price is high. 2 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the L'Oréal AI analysis
What does L'Oréal do?
L'Oréal S.A., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cosmetic products for women and men in Europe, North America, North Asia, South Asia Pacific, the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. It is in Household & Personal Products, based in Clichy, France, with 79,033 employees.
Does L'Oréal pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.6% a year, about 64% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out €3.92 billion in dividends.
Is L'Oréal stock halal?
Yes. L'Oréal passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 5% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
Who are L'Oréal's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with L'Oréal's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.