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Colgate-Palmolive Company

CL Consumer Defensive Household & Personal Products

Colgate-Palmolive Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $20.4 billion, up 1.40% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+4.64%
EPS
+7.42%
Free cash flow
−6.24%
Total debt
−8.35%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

98.63 0.13 −0.13%
Market cap
$78.5B
P/E
37.8×
Fwd P/E
26.3×
Dividend yield
2.14%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
6.51
Beneish M
−3.04
Dividend safety
66/100
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Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) Current ratio

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Colgate-Palmolive Company's current ratio at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 1.0×, up 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (0.8×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.8× (fiscal 2025) to 1.4× (fiscal 2017) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is below the Household & Personal Products industry median of 1.7× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.5×.

Current ratio, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Current ratio Change
FY2025 0.8× (9.77%)
FY2024 0.9× (17.08%)
FY2023 1.1× (12.80%)
FY2022 1.3× 17.65%
FY2021 1.1× 10.19%
FY2020 1.0× (4.82%)
FY2019 1.0× (8.84%)
FY2018 1.1× (16.60%)
FY2017 1.4× 3.70%
FY2016 1.3× 5.81%

Quarterly newest first

Period Current ratio Change
Sep 2026 1.0× (6.68%)
Jun 2026 1.0× 0.11%
Mar 2026 1.0× 23.02%
Dec 2025 0.8× (10.38%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.8× High 1.4×
Ten-year median 1.1×
Current reading's percentile 9

Current ratio against peers

Company Current ratio
IPAR Interparfums, Inc. compare 3.3×
ELF e.l.f. Beauty compare 2.6×
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 1.3×
CL Colgate-Palmolive Company 1.0×
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 1.0×
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation compare 0.9×
UL Unilever PLC compare 0.7×
PG Procter & Gamble Company (The) compare 0.7×
CLX The Clorox Company compare 0.7×
Household & Personal Products industry median 1.7×
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.5×
Market median 1.6×

What Current ratio is

Current Ratio shows whether a company’s short-term assets are enough to cover the bills and debts it must pay within the next year.

Current Assets (Total) ÷ Current Liabilities (Total)

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