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e.l.f. Beauty quarterly revenue jumps 51.4% to $520.8 million

E.l.f. Beauty's revenue growth is speeding up. Results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Nov 4, 2026.

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e.l.f. Beauty's revenue growth is speeding up: revenue jumped 51.4% to $520.8 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from $343.9 million a year earlier, after 35.5% year over year growth the quarter before.

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What We Know

Revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $520.8 million, versus $343.9 million in the same quarter a year earlier, up 51.4%. That is its highest quarterly revenue of the last eight quarters. Diluted earnings per share was $0.50, up from $0.05.

Bar chart: e.l.f. Beauty: revenue, last eight quarters. US$ millions by fiscal quarter end, as of Nov 4, 2026. Dec 2024 355.3; Mar 2025 332.6; Jun 2025 353.7; Sep 2025 343.9; Dec 2025 489.5; Mar 2026 449.3; Jun 2026 479.4; Sep 2026 520.8. Latest quarter $520.8M, Up 51.4% vs a year earlier.
Source: SEC EDGAR (earnings release and XBRL financial data)

Quarterly revenue by fiscal quarter end, oldest first: Dec 2024: $355.3 million; Mar 2025: $332.6 million; Jun 2025: $353.7 million; Sep 2025: $343.9 million; Dec 2025: $489.5 million; Mar 2026: $449.3 million; Jun 2026: $479.4 million; Sep 2026: $520.8 million.

Octans View

Year over year revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Dec 2025 up 37.8%; Mar 2026 up 35.1%; Jun 2026 up 35.5%; Sep 2026 up 51.4%. On those figures, e.l.f. Beauty's revenue growth is speeding up. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.

Bear Case · Room for Disagreement

This brief covers reported revenue and diluted earnings per share only. It does not cover guidance, margins, segment results, cash flow or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast. Revenue is the total on the release line we matched; a company's own adjusted measures can differ.

Method and source. Octans Research matched the revenue line in the earnings release (Exhibit 99.1) to the year ago quarter the company reported in its own XBRL financial data; the two must agree before anything is published. The quarterly history comes from the same XBRL data. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.

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$ELF adjusted close, last 6 months $ELF adjusted close, last 6 months: series rising from 55.7 to 116 (+109%) from 2026-05-12 to 2026-11-06. Scale 40 to 120. 406080100120 2026-05-122026-11-06 $ELF ADJUSTED CLOSE, LAST 6 MONTHS +109% 116.1
Source: Tiingo · As of 2026-11-06Indicative, not investment advice.

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  1. [1]SEC EDGAR — e.l.f. Beauty earnings release for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1), filed Nov 4, 2026
  2. [2]SEC EDGAR — e.l.f. Beauty XBRL financial data (company facts)

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