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# Estée Lauder Companies: Business Model & Revenue Engine

## Direct Answer

Estée Lauder Companies reports revenue across 4 geographic regions in its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K. Other countries is the largest, with $6.2 billion of revenue (43% of the total), followed by United States at $3.8 billion (26%). 26% of revenue came from the United States.

## How Does Estée Lauder Companies Make Money?

No single region supplies a majority of revenue: the largest, Other countries, is 43%, which spreads Estée Lauder Companies's exposure across several demand drivers. Between fiscal 2024 and 2025, United States grew fastest (-3.2%) and South Korea slowest (-44.7%), so the revenue mix tilts toward United States while that gap lasts.

| Region | FY2025 revenue | FY2024 revenue | Share of revenue | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Other countries | $6.2 billion | $6.4 billion | 43.2% | -3.3% |
| United States | $3.8 billion | $3.9 billion | 26.3% | -3.2% |
| China | $3.7 billion | $4.0 billion | 25.5% | -9.1% |
| South Korea | $718 million | $1.3 billion | 5.0% | -44.7% |

![Bar chart of Estée Lauder Companies revenue by region for fiscal 2025: Other countries 43.2%, United States 26.3%, China 25.5%, South Korea 5.0%.](https://www.getswoopr.com/images/charts/est-e-lauder-companies-business-model-segment-mix.webp)
*Estée Lauder Companies revenue by region as a share of total revenue, from the table above. The largest is highlighted. Select the chart to open it full size.*

## What the Segment Figures Do Not Show

The rows above add up to 100% of Estée Lauder Companies's reported revenue for fiscal 2025; the difference is intersegment eliminations, corporate revenue or items the company reports outside its segments. Segment definitions are management's choice and change when a company reorganizes, in which case it restates prior years in the next filing, so a multi-year comparison should use the figures from a single filing. Revenue shows where sales come from, not where profit or cash is earned: a small segment can carry most of the margin.

## Where These Numbers Come From

Every figure on this page is a value Estée Lauder Companies reported in the segment note and revenue disclosures of its Form 10-K filed August 20, 2025 (accession 0001001250-25-000099), read from the SEC's Financial Statement Data Sets. The prior-year column is the comparative figure from that same filing, so it reflects any restatement for a change in segments. Category names are the company's own XBRL labels, lightly reformatted for reading.

Rows that only total other rows (for example a "Products" line beside the individual products) are left out so nothing is counted twice. This page is educational and describes reported history for fiscal 2025; it is not a forecast or a recommendation.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What are Estée Lauder Companies's main regions?

In its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, Estée Lauder Companies reports revenue for Other countries, United States, China and South Korea.

### Which part of Estée Lauder Companies brings in the most revenue?

Other countries, with $6.2 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025, or 43% of the total.

### How much of Estée Lauder Companies's revenue comes from outside the United States?

74% in fiscal 2025, by the geographic breakdown Estée Lauder Companies reports in its Form 10-K. Companies assign revenue to regions differently (customer location, shipping address or selling entity), so check the filing's definition before comparing companies.

## References

- [SEC EDGAR: ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC Form 10-K filed August 19, 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125026000041/el-20260630.htm)
- [SEC EDGAR: ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC annual and quarterly filings](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1001250&type=10-K)
- [SEC: EDGAR application programming interfaces (XBRL frames and submissions data)](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces)
- [SEC: Financial Statement Data Sets](https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/financial-statement-data-sets)

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