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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

96.39 2.30 −2.33%
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) Gross margin

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Colgate-Palmolive Company's gross margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 60.6%, up 0.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (60.1%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 57.0% (fiscal 2022) to 60.8% (fiscal 2020); the current reading is higher than 82% of that period. That is above the Household & Personal Products industry median of 46.9% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 34.6%.

Gross margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 60.1% (0.39)
FY2024 60.5% 2.29
FY2023 58.2% 1.17
FY2022 57.0% (2.51)
FY2021 59.6% (1.27)
FY2020 60.8% 1.40
FY2019 59.4% 0.03
FY2018 59.4% (0.66)
FY2017 60.1% 0.01
FY2016 60.0% 1.42

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 60.2% (1.26)
Jun 2026 61.5% 0.89
Mar 2026 60.6% 0.44
Dec 2025 60.2% 0.73
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Against its own ten years

Low 57.0% High 60.8%
Ten-year median 59.6%
Current reading's percentile 91

Gross margin against peers

Company Gross margin
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 76.0%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty compare 74.4%
IPAR Interparfums, Inc. compare 64.8%
CL Colgate-Palmolive Company 60.6%
PG Procter & Gamble Company (The) compare 49.8%
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 46.1%
CLX The Clorox Company compare 41.9%
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation compare 36.8%
UL Unilever PLC compare 0.00%
Household & Personal Products industry median 46.9%
Consumer Defensive sector median 34.6%
Market median 45.1%

What Gross margin is

Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.

Gross Profit ÷ Revenue

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