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
2.79%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
6.51
Beneish M
−3.04
Dividend safety
66/100

Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) P/E ratio

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As of 16 October 2026, Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) trades at a P/E ratio of 37.1×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 20.9× (November 2025) to 47.9× (September 2016); the current reading is higher than 85% of that period. That is above the Household & Personal Products industry median of 23.5× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 18.1×.

P/E ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
FY2025 30.0× 16.67%
FY2024 25.8× (10.99%)
FY2023 28.9× (21.76%)
FY2022 37.0× 10.92%
FY2021 33.3× 22.41%
FY2020 27.2× 8.79%
FY2019 25.0× 15.66%
FY2018 21.6× (34.04%)
FY2017 32.8× 37.18%
FY2016 23.9× (45.07%)

Quarterly newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
Jun 2026 36.1× 9.69%
Mar 2026 32.9× 9.52%
Dec 2025 30.0× 34.93%
Sep 2025 22.3× (12.30%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 20.9× High 47.9×
Ten-year median 27.3×
Current reading's percentile 84

P/E ratio against peers

Company P/E ratio
UL Unilever PLC compare 11.2×
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation compare 18.0×
CLX The Clorox Company compare 18.1×
KVUE Kenvue Inc. compare 21.7×
PG Procter & Gamble Company (The) compare 23.5×
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 33.5×
CL Colgate-Palmolive Company 37.1×
ELF e.l.f. Beauty compare 113×
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 205×
Household & Personal Products industry median 23.5×
Consumer Defensive sector median 18.1×
Market median 18.1×

What P/E ratio is

Price to Earnings Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual profit per share.

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