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Colgate Palmolive (CL) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Colgate Palmolive has reported EBIT Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 1.76% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put EBIT Margin at 1.76% for Q4 2025, down 1974.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 16.23% (down 500.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 16.22%, down 501.0%.
  • EBIT Margin for Q4 2025 was 1.76% at Colgate Palmolive, down from 20.64% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, EBIT Margin for CL hit a ceiling of 23.38% in Q2 2021 and a floor of 1.76% in Q4 2025.
  • Median EBIT Margin over the past 5 years was 21.04% (2023), compared with a mean of 18.69%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBIT Margin: soared 1729bps in 2023 and later crashed -1974bps in 2025.
  • Colgate Palmolive's EBIT Margin stood at 8.29% in 2021, then plummeted by -47bps to 4.36% in 2022, then surged by 396bps to 21.66% in 2023, then dropped by -1bps to 21.5% in 2024, then plummeted by -92bps to 1.76% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for EBIT Margin were 1.76% (Q4 2025), 20.64% (Q3 2025), and 21.14% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.