EL Congressional Stock Trades & Insider Buying (2026)

EL insider buying and selling over the past year

Insiders at ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 6 Form 4 sales totaling $507.81M, against no open-market purchases.

None of the 6 sales were flagged as Rule 10b5-1 plan trades, meaning each one was a discretionary decision at the time of filing. Activity clustered in 2025-11 (6 trades); the latest filing in this window is dated 2025-11-26. The average open-market sale price was $89.72; the last close of $104.54 is 16.5% above that level, so sellers left upside on the table. The single largest trade was a sale of 2,845,283 shares worth $255.22M on 2025-11-06. Since the most recent filing the stock has moved +11.6%, from $93.70.

Where EL trades relative to its one-year range

ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC closed at $104.54 on 2026-10-16, inside a one-year range of $67.23 to $119.61. That puts the stock in the middle of its range, at 71.2% of the distance from low to high. Over one year the share price moved +8.0%, and over roughly three months +27.3%. Average daily volume over the last month was about 3,002,822 shares.

Across 137 companies in the same SEC industry group (SIC 28) with a full year of prices in Gemral Edge, the median one-year return was +12.0%. EL is behind that median and beat 47% of that peer group on this measure.

Members of Congress who traded EL

STOCK Act disclosures show 20 trades in EL by 8 members of Congress over five years (8 purchases, 12 sales), most recently on 2026-08-05. The most active traders were Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), 9 trades; Dan Newhouse (R-WA), 3 trades; Julie Johnson (D-TX), 2 trades; Kevin Hern (R-OK), 2 trades; John Boozman (R-AR), 1 trade.

By party the trades split 16 by Republicans, 4 by Democrats; by chamber, 17 from the House, 3 from the Senate.

EL lobbying disclosures

ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC appears in 1 Lobbying Disclosure Act filings between 2018 and 2018, with $100.0K in reported lobbying spend.

Compare EL with indexed peers from the same industry group

These peers have full Gemral Edge dossiers and the closest one-year price move to EL:

• ECL one-year return +6.8%
• PG one-year return +6.5%
• PPG one-year return +6.3%
• LIN one-year return +12.2%
• NVS one-year return +15.2%

Sources and method

Every figure above is computed from public filings stored in Gemral Edge, not estimated. Insider figures count only open-market purchases and sales reported on SEC Form 4; option exercises, grants and gifts are excluded because they do not reflect a decision to buy or sell at market prices.

• SEC EDGAR Form 4 (edge_insider_trades, codes P/S open-market only) — as of 2025-11-26
• edge_prices_eod (end-of-day close) — as of 2026-10-16
• House PTR / Senate eFD disclosures (edge_congress_trades) — as of 2026-08-05
• Senate LDA filings (edge_lobbying_filings)

EL data questions

Are EL insiders buying or selling stock?

Insiders at ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 6 Form 4 sales totaling $507.81M, against no open-market purchases.

What is the one-year price range for EL?

Based on end-of-day closes through 2026-10-16, EL traded between $67.23 and $119.61, last closing at $104.54.

Has any member of Congress traded EL stock?

Yes. 8 members disclosed 20 trades in EL over five years; the most recent disclosed trade date is 2026-08-05.