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Shown beside the figures; they do not change the range or its receipt." }, "sources": { "facts": "https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000021665.json", "filings": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=21665" }, "license": "Figures as filed with the SEC. Card text CC BY 4.0, POPS4.", "notAdvice": "Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets and no trading recommendations.", "edgar": "🫧 Edgar looked up COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY ($CL). Last filing: 10-Q, 2026-07-31. 9 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.", "auditor": { "changes": [], "nonReliance": [], "restatedSince": null }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-12-31", "revenue": 20382000000, "revenueGrowth1y": 0.013979404009750729, "revenueGrowthPerYear": 0.040024162271868224, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": 0.162201942890786, "operatingMarginPrior": 0.21232774488831402, "netMargin": 0.11093121381611226, "operatingCashFlow": 4198000000, "capitalSpending": 564000000, "freeCashFlow": 3634000000, "researchAndDevelopment": 366000000, "researchShareOfRevenue": 0.017957020900794818, "cash": 1288000000, "longTermDebt": 7986000000, "longTermDebtChange": 0.005666792595391046, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2021-12-31", "revenue": 17421000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2022-12-31", "revenue": 17967000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2023-12-31", "revenue": 19457000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2024-12-31", "revenue": 20101000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-12-31", "revenue": 20382000000 } ], "totalEquity": 54000000, "totalAssets": 16330000000, "equityRatio": 0.0033067973055725657, "returnOnEquity": 41.870370370370374, "dividendsPaid": null, "payoutRatio": null, "dividendPerShare": 2.08, "dividendYearsRising": 0, "dividendCut": true, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. The boards carry filings only, so they are not shown.", "earningsPerShare": 2.64, "sharesOutstanding": 811100000, "bookValuePerShare": 0.0665762544692393, "revenuePerShare": 25.12883738133399, "range80": { "low": 18920155776.373093, "high": 21744622238.257786, "baseline": 20962010634.404613, "n": 1471, "band": "b10", "bandLabel": "$10B+", "method": "v4.1", "credibility": 0.5, "growthYears": 4, "ownVolatility": 0.028239458078417753, "classVolatility": 0.06659579566308972, "volatility": 0.05114912996602539 }, "ifPaceHeld": { "low": 18920155776.373093, "high": 21744622238.257786 } }, "edgarette": "🔖 Exposure: revenue $20.4B (FY2025), total debt $8.0B. Experience: revenue up 1.4% on the year, up 4.0% a year over 4 years; operating margin 16.2%, down from 21.2%. Soundness: equity 0.3% of assets, return on equity 4187.0%, the dividend per share fell in the latest year on record. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $18.9B and $21.7B next year (method v4.1: its own 4-year record of growth weighed at 50% against $10B+ filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $17.8B to $23.0B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (10 filers, $50M+ revenue, perfumes, cosmetics & other toilet preparations): operating margin 16.2% against a 3.3% median; growth 1.4% against 0.1%.", "peers": { "sic": 2844, "sicDescription": "Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 4, "group": "2844", "growth": [ 0.0007, 9 ], "opMargin": [ 0.0331, 10 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.3564, 10 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.0199, 8 ] }, "summary": "Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) grew revenue 1.4% in FY2025 to $20.4 billion, operating margin 16.2% against a 3.3% median for perfumes, cosmetics & other toilet preparations, equity 0.3% of assets, and its dividend per share fell in the latest year on record. Every figure is from the company’s own annual report filed with the SEC.", "chart": "
COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 3.3%16.2%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 0.1%1.4%Equity of assetsPeer median 35.6%0.3%Return on equityPeer median 2.0%4187.0%Gold tick: the median of 8–10 peers with $50M+ revenue in perfumes, cosmetics & other toilet preparations
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Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profitHanded back per share$2.08cut in the latest yearRevenue growth it managed1.4%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

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