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

Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) Revenue growth

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Colgate-Palmolive Company's revenue growth over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 5.91%, up 4.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (1.40%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −7.19% (fiscal 2015) to 8.29% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Household & Personal Products industry median of 2.91% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 4.10%.

Revenue growth, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Revenue growth Change (points)
FY2025 1.40% (1.91)
FY2024 3.31% (4.98)
FY2023 8.29% 5.16
FY2022 3.13% (2.64)
FY2021 5.77% 0.81
FY2020 4.96% 4.00
FY2019 0.96% 0.38
FY2018 0.58% (1.12)
FY2017 1.70% 6.93
FY2016 −5.23% 1.96

Quarterly newest first

Period Revenue growth Change (points)
Sep 2026 4.64% (0.27)
Jun 2026 4.91% (3.50)
Mar 2026 8.41% 2.65
Dec 2025 5.76% 3.81
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −7.19% High 8.29%
Ten-year median 1.70%
Current reading's percentile 45

Revenue growth against peers

Company Revenue growth
ELF e.l.f. Beauty compare 39.9%
CLX The Clorox Company compare 6.28%
CL Colgate-Palmolive Company 5.91%
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 5.79%
UL Unilever PLC compare 5.30%
PG Procter & Gamble Company (The) compare 3.52%
IPAR Interparfums, Inc. compare 2.58%
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 1.70%
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation compare 0.71%
Household & Personal Products industry median 2.91%
Consumer Defensive sector median 4.10%
Market median 7.58%

What Revenue growth is

Revenue Growth shows how fast a company’s sales are rising or falling compared with the same period a year earlier.

(Revenue − Revenue a year earlier) ÷ |Revenue a year earlier|

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