US Equities Analysis

ULTA — Ulta Beauty

Research evidence pack

Source-backed valuation visuals

Loading verified snapshot
Loading verified market, valuation, and statement data.

2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 14.17%
Profit Margins 9.35%
Return on Equity 47.45%
Return on Assets 15.33%
Free Float 0.04B
Short Int % Utilisation 5.48%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 11.1%
Free Cash Flow 0.97B
EBITDA 11.81 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 22.32B
EV/Revenue 1.76
EV/EBITDA 11.81

Revenue growth of 11.1% indicates steady, moderate expansion.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* 4.34%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 35.31%
1-Year Price Return* -1.97%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $510.75
52-Week Range $443.60 – $714.97
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $493.33
Market capitalisation $21.21B
Enterprise value proxy $22.90B
Revenue $12.39B
EBIT $1.55B
EBITDA $1.85B
Reported free cash flow $1.07B
Unlevered free cash flow $683.50M
FCF yield 5.04%
EV / EBITDA proxy 12.38x
Net debt / EBITDA 0.91x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 0.85
Cost of equity 9.41%
Pre-tax cost of debt 7.72%
WACC 9.08%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 4/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:56:32.266162 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2026-01-31 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

us-equity stock equity ulta consumer-discretionary other-specialty-retail nasdaq