About Colgate-Palmolive Company
Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) is a Basic Materials company in the Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations industry with a market capitalisation of $70.4B. The stock trades at 34.86x trailing earnings and yields 2.39%.
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations
- Market cap
- $70.4B
- P/E ratio
- 34.86
- EPS (TTM)
- $2.63
- Revenue (TTM)
- $20.4B
- Free cash flow
- $3.6B
- Profit margin
- 10.5%
- Dividend yield
- 2.39%
- Shares outstanding
- 797.2M
Financial health: Fair6.1/10
5 strengths, 3 concerns. Weakest points: debt to equity, current ratio, earnings growth.
- Debt to equity: 147.89 (Concern, benchmark < 0.5) — Debt of 147.89x equity is high against the 0.5x benchmark. It has deteriorated over the last 4 years.
- Net debt vs cash flow: 1.8y (Strong, benchmark < 4 years) — Net debt of $6.7B is 1.8x annual free cash flow — about 2 years of cash flow to repay.
- Current ratio: 0.83 (Concern, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover only 0.83x short-term liabilities — below 1.0, meaning bills due this year exceed the assets on hand to pay them. It has deteriorated over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 3948.1% (Strong, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 3948.1% on shareholder equity, comfortably past the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 60.1% (Strong, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 60.1% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, comfortably past the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 10.5% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 10.5% of revenue into profit, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $3.6B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $3.6B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 1.4% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 1.4% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: -26.2% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed -26.2% year on year, well short of the > 10% mark.