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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. 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.

94.11 1.44 +1.55%
Market cap
$73.9B
P/E
37.1×
Fwd P/E
23.9×
Dividend yield
2.24%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
6.51
Beneish M
−3.04
Dividend safety
66/100
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Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) Operating margin

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Colgate-Palmolive Company's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 14.9%, 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 1.55%.

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)
Jun 2026 19.0% 0.84
Mar 2026 18.1% 16.37
Dec 2025 1.74% (18.90)
Sep 2025 20.6% (0.50)
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Against its own ten years

Low 16.1% High 26.0%
Ten-year median 21.2%
Current reading's percentile 2

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
PG Procter & Gamble Company (The) compare 22.7%
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 17.5%
KVUE Kenvue Inc. compare 17.1%
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation compare 15.2%
CL Colgate-Palmolive Company 14.9%
CLX The Clorox Company compare 13.6%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty compare 7.23%
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 5.18%
UL Unilever PLC compare 0.00%
Household & Personal Products industry median 1.31%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.55%
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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