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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) Debt to equity

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Colgate-Palmolive Company's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 12.1×, down 9.8× from fiscal 2025 (21.9×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −149× (fiscal 2015) to 384× (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Household & Personal Products industry median of 0.4× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 21.9× 49.77%
FY2024 14.6× 63.57%
FY2023 8.9× (17.76%)
FY2022 10.9× 46.37%
FY2021 7.4× 11.27%
FY2020 6.7× (50.95%)
FY2019 13.6× (57.92%)
FY2018 32.3× 19.39%
FY2017 27.1× (92.96%)
FY2016 384× —

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Sep 2026 12.1× (13.15%)
Jun 2026 13.9× (15.38%)
Mar 2026 16.4× (25.04%)
Dec 2025 21.9× 221.81%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −149× High 384×
Ten-year median 13.6×
Current reading's percentile 73

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
UL Unilever PLC compare 0.0×
IPAR Interparfums, Inc. compare 0.1×
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 0.5×
ELF e.l.f. Beauty compare 0.6×
PG Procter & Gamble Company (The) compare 0.7×
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 1.8×
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation compare 3.5×
CL Colgate-Palmolive Company 12.1×
CLX The Clorox Company compare 32.9×
Household & Personal Products industry median 0.4×
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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