Ralph Lauren Corporation (RL) earnings on August 6, 2026
More Ralph Lauren Corporation earnings
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
Ralph Lauren shares rose after the company announced plans to reduce discount sales and close lower-tier stores. An analyst also raised the price target, supporting the positive move.
RL price around the earnings
395.83
Change: +4.0%
2026-08-06, 20:00 UTC
Start of the measured window
End of the measured window
362.00
378.12
394.23
410.35
380.69
August 6, 2026
- Price: green if it ends above the starting price; red if it ends below
- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
- Starting price
Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
- Results released
Strong analyst upgrades and strong recent beat history drive a significant positive trajectory into earnings despite recent negative trend strength.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Trajectory improved 25→58 over week as analyst upgrades strengthened an optimistic thesis despite negative trend strength.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.58
- Analysts covering the stock
- 17
- Average price target
- 429
- Lowest price target
- 235
- Highest price target
- 511
- Upside to price target
- 12.7%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 17.5%
- Revenue growth
- 16.6%
- Forward EPS
- 20.44
- Trailing EPS
- 15.23
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 4
- Strong buy: 5
- Buy: 12
- Hold: 1
- Sell: 1
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 5
- Buy
- 12
- Hold
- 1
- Sell
- 1
- Strong sell
- 0
- August 4, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- July 21, 2026 · Raymond James: Upgrades rating (Market Perform → Outperform)
- July 21, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- June 23, 2026 · Telsey Advisory Group: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- High
- Normalized volume
- 99%
News
Sources (2)
- JP Morgan Maintains Overweight on Ralph Lauren, Raises Price Target to $452 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Raymond James Upgrades Ralph Lauren to Outperform, Announces $410 Price Target (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 380.69
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.9%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -7.8%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -1.6%
- 30-day change (30d)
- -4.0%
- 30-day relative strength
- -6.5%
- SPY change (30d)
- +2.5%
- Nearest support
- 379.65
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.3%
- Nearest resistance
- 383.29
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.7%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.71
- Mid: 379.65 (0.3% away, 0.09 ATR, 18 touches)
- Mid: 377.18 (0.9% away, 0.32 ATR, 20 touches)
- Major: 373.35 (1.9% away, 0.67 ATR, 28 touches)
- Mid: 383.29 (0.7% away, 0.24 ATR, 13 touches)
- Mid: 387.33 (1.8% away, 0.61 ATR, 28 touches)
- Mid: 392.53 (3.1% away, 1.08 ATR, 15 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +8.7%
- May 21, 2026: actual EPS 2.8 vs estimate 2.54 (surprise +10.1%)
- February 5, 2026: actual EPS 6.22 vs estimate 5.81 (surprise +7.1%)
- November 6, 2025: actual EPS 3.79 vs estimate 3.45 (surprise +9.9%)
- August 7, 2025: actual EPS 3.77 vs estimate 3.5 (surprise +7.8%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +3.0%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 4.6%
- 75th percentile move
- 6.4%
- 90th percentile move
- 10.2%
- Up / down moves
- 13 / 7
- Average up move
- +5.9%
- Average down move
- -4.9%
Monitoring and close
What Ralph Lauren Corporation reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 4.59 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 4.32 |
| EPS surprise | +6.3% |
| Revenue | $1,960 million |
| Revenue estimate | $1,867 million |
| Revenue surprise | +5.0% |
Ralph Lauren beats Q1 expectations, driven by Asia. The company raises its full-year outlook and plans to cut off-price sales and exit lower-tier stores. Needham maintains Buy with a $450 price target.
Sources (15)
- Needham Maintains Buy on Ralph Lauren, Raises Price Target to $450 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Ralph Lauren to Cut Off-Price Sales, Exit Lower-Tier Stores in Brand Upgrade Push (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Ralph Lauren Corporation (RL) Q1 2027 Earnings Call Transcript (opens in a new tab) — SeekingAlpha
- Ralph Lauren (RL) Reports Q1 Earnings: What Key Metrics Have to Say (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Ralph Lauren (RL) Beats Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Ralph Lauren CFO Speaking In Conference Call Says Company Plans To Accelerate Strategic Reduction Of Off-Price Sales, Exit Of Lower-Tier Full-Price Stores In Back Half (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Ralph Lauren Boosts Outlook After Q1 Revenues Rise 14% (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
- Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL) Beats Q2 CY2026 Sales Expectations, Quarterly Revenue Guidance Slightly Exceeds Expectations (opens in a new tab) — StockStory
- Ralph Lauren beats estimates as Asia sales surge 24% (opens in a new tab) — Investing.com
- Ralph Lauren raises full-year outlook after strong first-quarter earnings beat (opens in a new tab) — InvestorsHub
- Ralph Lauren beat expectations with adjusted earnings of $4.59 per share and sales of $1.960 billion, above forecasts. — Benzinga
- Ralph Lauren Q1 Adj. EPS $4.59 Beats $4.32 Estimate, Sales $1.960B Beat $1.867B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Ralph Lauren Reports Better Than Expected First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Results and Updates Fiscal 2027 Outlook (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
- Stocks to Watch: Western Digital, Sandisk, Warner Bros Discovery, Ralph Lauren (opens in a new tab) — The Wall Street Journal
- Berkshire Earnings, Jobs Report: What to Watch the Rest of the Week (opens in a new tab) — The Wall Street Journal
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, and the price is indicating -0.3% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 5%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: that move is too small to draw conclusions from.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- +4.2%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 8%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 2.3%