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

Colgate Palmolive has reported EBT Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 2.07% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put EBT Margin at 2.07% for Q4 2025, down 1802.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 15.01% (down 467.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 15.01%, down 467.0%.
  • EBT Margin for Q4 2025 was 2.07% at Colgate Palmolive, down from 19.33% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, EBT Margin for CL hit a ceiling of 22.37% in Q2 2021 and a floor of 2.07% in Q4 2025.
  • Median EBT Margin over the past 5 years was 19.37% (2025), compared with a mean of 16.98%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBT Margin: skyrocketed 1711bps in 2023 and later crashed -1802bps in 2025.
  • Colgate Palmolive's EBT Margin stood at 7.36% in 2021, then tumbled by -61bps to 2.85% in 2022, then surged by 600bps to 19.96% in 2023, then increased by 1bps to 20.08% in 2024, then plummeted by -90bps to 2.07% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for EBT Margin were 2.07% (Q4 2025), 19.33% (Q3 2025), and 19.71% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.