e.l.f. Beauty Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal 2023 Results

– Delivered 48% Net Sales Growth in Fiscal 2023 –

– Gained Market Share for Fourth Consecutive Year –

– Provides Fiscal 2024 Outlook –

e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE: ELF) today announced results for the three and twelve months ended March 31, 2023.

“Our outstanding results in fiscal 2023 underscore the power of the e.l.f. brand and the world class team at e.l.f. Beauty,” said Tarang Amin, e.l.f. Beauty's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We grew net sales by 78% in Q4, marking our seventeenth consecutive quarter of net sales growth. We gained 270 basis points of market share in the quarter and increased our ranking to the number three U.S. Mass Cosmetics brand for the first time, according to Nielsen. As we look ahead, we believe we are still in the early innings of unlocking the full potential we see for e.l.f. Beauty.”

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2023 Review

For the three months ended March 31, 2023, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2022:

• Net sales increased 78% to $187.4 million, primarily driven by strength across our retailer and e-commerce channels.
• Gross margin increased approximately 470 basis points to 69%, primarily driven by pricing, lower transportation costs, product mix and cost savings.
• Selling, general and administrative expenses ("SG&A") increased $55.7 million to $121.1 million, or 65% of net sales. Adjusted SG&A (SG&A excluding the items identified in the reconciliation table below) was $113.9 million, or 61% of net sales. The year over year increase in SG&A dollars was primarily due to an increase in marketing and digital spend, operations costs, and compensation and benefits.
• Net income was $16.2 million on a GAAP basis. Adjusted net income (net income excluding the items identified in the reconciliation table below) was $23.8 million.
• Diluted earnings per share were $0.29 on a GAAP basis. Adjusted diluted earnings per share (diluted earnings per share calculated with adjusted net income excluding the items identified in the reconciliation table below) were $0.42.
• Adjusted EBITDA (EBITDA excluding the items identified in the reconciliation table below) was $21.2 million, or 11% of net sales, up 66% year over year.

Full Year Fiscal 2023 Review

For the twelve months ended March 31, 2023, compared to the twelve months ended March 31, 2022:

• Net sales increased 48% to $578.8 million, primarily driven by strength across our retailer and e-commerce channels.
• Gross margin increased approximately 330 basis points to 67%, primarily driven by pricing, cost savings and product mix, partially offset by inventory adjustments.
• SG&A increased $100.3 million to $322.3 million, or 56% of net sales. Adjusted SG&A was $293.2 million, or 51% of net sales. The year over year increase in SG&A dollars was primarily due to an increase in marketing and digital spend, compensation and benefits, operations costs, retail fixturing and visual merchandising costs.
• Net income was $61.5 million on a GAAP basis. Adjusted net income was $91.8 million.
• Diluted earnings per share were $1.11 on a GAAP basis. Adjusted diluted earnings per share were $1.66.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $116.8 million, or 20% of net sales, up 56% year over year.

Balance Sheet

The Company ended fiscal 2023 with $120.8 million in cash and cash equivalents and $60.9 million of long-term debt and finance lease obligations, as compared to $43.4 million in cash and cash equivalents and $91.1 million of long-term debt and finance lease obligations at the end of fiscal 2022.

Fiscal 2024 Outlook

The Company is providing the following outlook for fiscal 2024. When compared to fiscal 2023, the outlook for fiscal 2024 reflects an expected 22-24% increase in net sales.

Webcast Details

The Company will hold a webcast to discuss the results from its fourth quarter fiscal 2023 today, May 24, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The webcast will be broadcast live at https://investor.elfbeauty.com/news-and-events/events. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, an archived version will be available at the same location.

About e.l.f. Beauty

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. builds brands designed to disrupt industry norms, shape culture and connect communities through positivity, inclusivity and accessibility. Our deep commitment to clean, cruelty-free beauty at an incredible value has fueled the success of our flagship brand e.l.f. Cosmetics since 2004 and driven our portfolio expansion. Today, our multi-brand portfolio includes e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. SKIN, pioneering clean-beauty brand Well People and Keys Soulcare, a groundbreaking lifestyle beauty brand created with Alicia Keys. Our family of brands is available online and across leading beauty, mass market and specialty retailers in the U.S., and has a growing international presence.

Learn more by visiting https://investor.elfbeauty.com.

Note Regarding non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes references to non-GAAP measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share. The Company presents these non-GAAP measures because its management uses them as supplemental measures in assessing its operating performance, and believes they are helpful to investors, securities analysts and other interested parties in evaluating the Company’s performance. The non-GAAP measures included in this press release are not measurements of financial performance under GAAP and they should not be considered as alternatives to measures of performance derived in accordance with GAAP. In addition, these non-GAAP measures should not be construed as an inference that the Company’s future results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items. These non-GAAP measures have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider such measures either in isolation or as substitutes for analyzing the Company’s results as reported under GAAP. The Company’s definitions and calculations of these non-GAAP measures are not necessarily comparable to other similarly titled measures used by other companies due to different methods of calculation.

Adjusted EBITDA excludes expense or income related to restructuring of operations, stock-based compensation, loss on extinguishment of debt and other non-cash and non-recurring items. Such other non-cash or non-recurring items historically include legal settlements, pre-launch costs to develop the Company’s brand, Keys Soulcare, third-party costs related to M&A due diligence, and amortization of internal-use software costs related to cloud applications. Adjusted SG&A excludes expense related to stock-based compensation and other non-cash and non-recurring items. Such other non-cash or non-recurring items historically include legal settlements, pre-launch costs to develop the Company’s brand, Keys Soulcare and third-party costs related to M&A due diligence. Adjusted effective tax rate is the tax rate when excluding the pre-tax impact of expense or income related to restructuring of operations, stock-based compensation, other non-cash and non-recurring items, amortization of acquired intangible assets, as well as the related tax impact for these items, calculated utilizing the statutory rate for where the impact was incurred. Adjusted net income excludes expense or income related to restructuring of operations, stock-based compensation, other non-cash and non-recurring items, loss on extinguishment of debt, amortization of acquired intangible assets and the tax impact of the foregoing adjustments. Such other non-cash or non-recurring items, which historically include legal settlements, pre-launch costs to develop the Company’s brand, Keys Soulcare, and third-party costs related to M&A due diligence.

With respect to the Company’s expectations under “Fiscal 2024 Outlook” above, the Company is not able to provide a quantitative reconciliation of the adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance non-GAAP measures to the corresponding net income and diluted earnings per share GAAP measures without unreasonable efforts. The Company cannot provide meaningful estimates of the non-recurring charges and credits excluded from these non-GAAP measures due to the forward-looking nature of these estimates and their inherent variability and uncertainty. For the same reasons, the Company is unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including those statements relating to the Company's outlook for fiscal 2024 under “Fiscal 2024 Outlook” above and those statements that we believe we are still in the early innings of unlocking the full potential we see for e.l.f. Beauty. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, actual results and the timing of selected events may differ materially from those expectations. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, among other things, the risks and uncertainties that are described in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as updated from time to time in the Company's SEC filings, as well as the Company’s ability to effectively compete with other beauty companies; the Company’s ability to successfully introduce new products; the Company’s ability to attract new retail customers and/or expand business with its existing retail customers; the Company’s ability to optimize shelf space at its key retail customers; the loss of any of the Company’s key retail customers or if the general business performance of its key retail customers declines; and the Company’s ability to effectively manage its SG&A and other expenses. Potential investors are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, even if new information becomes available in the future.

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