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

Colgate Palmolive has reported FCF Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 24.4% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put FCF Margin at 24.4% for Q4 2025, up 246.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 17.83% (up 19.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 17.83%, up 19.0%.
  • FCF Margin for Q4 2025 was 24.4% at Colgate Palmolive, up from 21.56% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, FCF Margin for CL hit a ceiling of 24.4% in Q4 2025 and a floor of 6.0% in Q1 2022.
  • Median FCF Margin over the past 5 years was 16.22% (2024), compared with a mean of 15.42%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in FCF Margin: plummeted -1269bps in 2021 and later soared 921bps in 2023.
  • Colgate Palmolive's FCF Margin stood at 20.74% in 2021, then crashed by -53bps to 9.76% in 2022, then surged by 94bps to 18.97% in 2023, then grew by 16bps to 21.94% in 2024, then grew by 11bps to 24.4% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for FCF Margin were 24.4% (Q4 2025), 21.56% (Q3 2025), and 15.19% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.