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COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO CL

Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations · CIK 0000021665 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$21.28B
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Operating income
$3.16B
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Free cash flow
Unavailable
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$73.40BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$91.57Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income34.4×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue3.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity201.1×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

34.4× earnings today, against a median of 27.5× across 10 years on record. Above its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$73.40B34.4×
2024-06-30$79.20B27.4×
2023-06-30$63.60B27.7×
2022-06-30$66.80B37.4×
2021-06-30$68.60B31.7×
2020-06-30$62.80B23.3×
2019-06-30$61.30B25.9×
2018-06-30$56.00B23.3×
2017-06-30$65.10B32.2×
2016-06-30$65.10B26.7×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
Long-term debt / equity18.82x100th
SBC / revenue0.8%9th
Net margin10.5%86th
Operating margin16.2%86th
R&D / revenue1.8%17th
Current ratio0.83x20th
Effective tax rate26.1%62th
Gross margin60.1%60th
Revenue YoY growth1.4%46th

COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO (CL) reported revenue of $21.28B and net income of $2.05B for the fiscal year ended 2026-09-30. This page shows 1 annual period of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations.

Income

COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Revenue$21.28B
Cost of revenue$8.38B
Gross profit$12.90B
Operating income$3.16B
Net income$2.05B
Research & developmentUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesUnavailable
Pretax income$2.97B
Income tax expense$795.00M
Diluted EPSUnavailable
Selling, general & administrative$8.39B
General & administrativeUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailable

Balance

COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Cash & equivalents$1.53B
Total assets$16.74B
Current assets$6.36B
Total liabilities$16.10B
Current liabilities$6.64B
Total equity incl. NCI$640.00M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailable
Inventory$2.18B
Accounts receivable$1.90B
Goodwill$3.08B
Long-term debt$7.18B
Accounts payable$2.10B

Cash flow

COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Operating cash flow$4.37B
Capital expendituresUnavailable
Investing cash flow-$484.00M
Financing cash flow-$3.63B
Net change in cash$248.00M
Stock-based compensation$169.00M
Common dividends paid$1.83B
Common share repurchases$1.33B
Depreciation & amortization$643.00M

Derived

COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Free cash flowUnavailable
Gross margin60.6%
Operating margin14.8%
FCF marginUnavailable
SBC / revenue0.8%
Current ratio0.96x
Revenue YoY growth5.9%
Net margin9.6%
R&D / revenueUnavailable
CapEx / revenueUnavailable
Long-term debt / equity11.22x
Effective tax rate26.8%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open CL in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-10-30View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-07-31View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-01View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-23View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-31View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-01View SEC filing

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