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. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 4.91%, EPS fell 5.43%, free cash flow grew 11.7% and total debt fell 10.3%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years, revenue growth for five, operating cash flow growth for three.

89.85 1.58 +1.79%
Market cap
$71.7B
P/E
35.4×
Fwd P/E
23.9×
Dividend yield
2.93%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
6.51
Beneish M
−3.04
Dividend safety
66/100

Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) EV/FCF

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As of 12 October 2026, Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) trades at a EV/FCF of 20.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 19.0× (January 2026) to 39.3× (January 2023); the current reading is higher than 3% of that period.

EV/FCF, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
FY2025 19.4× (15.28%)
FY2024 22.9× (6.26%)
FY2023 24.5× (37.10%)
FY2022 38.9× 36.66%
FY2021 28.5× 18.12%
FY2020 24.1× 2.38%
FY2019 23.5× 5.67%
FY2018 22.3× (21.49%)
FY2017 28.4× 14.60%
FY2016 24.8× (14.56%)

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
Jun 2026 20.7× 3.83%
Mar 2026 19.9× 2.50%
Dec 2025 19.4× (6.73%)
Sep 2025 20.8× (13.54%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 19.0× High 39.3×
Ten-year median 26.0×
Current reading's percentile 3

EV/FCF against peers

What EV/FCF is

EV/Free CF shows how the value of a whole company, debt included, compares with the free cash its business produces.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ (Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM))

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