stockrowColgate-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
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Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) Operating margin
Colgate-Palmolive Company's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 14.8%, down 1.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (16.2%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 16.1% (fiscal 2022) to 26.0% (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Household & Personal Products industry median of 1.31% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.70%.
Operating margin, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Operating margin | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 16.2% | (5.01) |
| FY2024 | 21.2% | 0.75 |
| FY2023 | 20.5% | 4.38 |
| FY2022 | 16.1% | (3.03) |
| FY2021 | 19.1% | (4.46) |
| FY2020 | 23.6% | 0.94 |
| FY2019 | 22.7% | (1.11) |
| FY2018 | 23.8% | (0.23) |
| FY2017 | 24.0% | (2.04) |
| FY2016 | 26.0% | 8.64 |
Quarterly newest first
| Period | Operating margin | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 20.3% | 1.31 |
| Jun 2026 | 19.0% | 0.84 |
| Mar 2026 | 18.1% | 16.37 |
| Dec 2025 | 1.74% | (18.90) |
| 43 more quarters | Free account |
Against its own ten years
Operating margin against peers
| Company | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| PG Procter & Gamble Company (The) compare | 22.6% |
| CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare | 18.0% |
| IPAR Interparfums, Inc. compare | 17.9% |
| KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation compare | 15.2% |
| CL Colgate-Palmolive Company | 14.8% |
| CLX The Clorox Company compare | 14.6% |
| ELF e.l.f. Beauty compare | 8.87% |
| EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare | 6.67% |
| UL Unilever PLC compare | 0.00% |
| Household & Personal Products industry median | 1.31% |
| Consumer Defensive sector median | 1.70% |
| Market median | 0.00% |
What Operating margin is
EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.
EBIT ÷ Revenue
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