e.l.f. is glowing after a clean earnings beat

Glow-up season

e.l.f. Beauty came out swinging with a fourth-quarter beat that had traders hitting the buy button before the opening bell. The beauty brand posted 32 cents in adjusted earnings per share, topping the 29-cent consensus, while revenue landed at $449.29 million versus the Street’s $422.93 million estimate. Not exactly a rounding error — that’s the kind of gap that makes a premarket chart look like it drank an energy drink.

Why investors care

The company also said quarterly sales jumped 35.07% from the same period last year, which is the sort of growth story investors tend to forgive a lot for. When a consumer brand is still putting up that kind of top-line expansion, the market usually starts asking a very simple question: is this just a good quarter, or the start of a longer streak?

The rest of the premarket circus

This article also had the usual premarket cast of characters doing the most:

• Intuit slipped after a solid quarter, but its guidance and workforce cut gave traders plenty to chew on.
• Applied Digital climbed after landing a long-term lease with a hyperscaler, aka the kind of AI-adjacent deal the market loves to fetishize.
• Osisko Development fell after pricing $275 million in convertible notes.
• A handful of tiny names were bouncing around like they were on a trampoline with no safety rails.

But the headline here is still e.l.f.: a consumer brand posting a real beat, not just vibes. If management can keep growth this hot, the stock may not need much help from the premarket chaos machine.

Big picture: in a market obsessed with AI and mega-cap drama, sometimes the cleanest story is the simplest one — sell stuff, beat estimates, and let the stock do the rest.