---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-011803"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ULTA"
cik: "0001403568"
company_name: "Ulta Beauty, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:25:40.128590+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ulta Beauty Q2 net sales up 9.3% to $2.79B; raises FY2025 outlook

## Summary
- Net sales $2.79B, +9.3% YoY; comparable sales +6.7%; diluted EPS $5.78 vs $5.30.
- Operating margin 12.4% vs 12.9%; net income up 3.3% to $260.9M.
- FY2025 guidance raised: net sales $12.0-$12.1B, comps 2.5%-3.5%, EPS $23.85-$24.30.
- Inventory up 20.5% to $2.4B partly from Space NK acquisition; short-term debt $289.1M.
- Repurchased 1.2M shares in H1 for $468.3M; $2.2B remaining under buyback program.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-011803
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ULTA
- cik: 0001403568
- company_name: Ulta Beauty, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403568/000155837025011803/0001558370-25-011803-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403568/000155837025011803/ulta-20250828x8k.htm

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