Colgate Palmolive (CL) FCF Margin (2009 - 2026)

Colgate Palmolive's FCF Margin history runs 18 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 11.44% for Q1 2026.

• In Q1 2026, FCF Margin rose 175.0% year-over-year to 11.44%; the TTM figure through Mar 2026 stood at 18.11% (up 73.0% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 17.83%, up 19.0% from the prior year.
• FCF Margin was 11.44% for Q1 2026 at Colgate Palmolive, down from 24.4% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 24.4% in Q4 2025 to a low of 6.0% in Q1 2022.
• Historically, FCF Margin has averaged 15.1% across 5 years, with a median of 15.19% in 2025.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2022 and 2023: FCF Margin slumped 1097 bps in 2022, then jumped 921 bps in 2023.
• A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 9.76% in 2022, then jumped by 94 bps to 18.97% in 2023, then rose by 16 bps to 21.94% in 2024, then climbed by 11 bps to 24.4% in 2025, then tumbled by 53 bps to 11.44% in 2026.
• The last three FCF Margin figures came in at 11.44% (Q1 2026), 24.4% (Q4 2025), and 21.56% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.