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Colgate Palmolive (CL) FCF Payout Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Colgate Palmolive has reported FCF Payout Ratio over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.41 for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put FCF Payout Ratio at 0.41 for Q4 2025, down 13.48% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.5 (down 0.57% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.5, down 0.57%.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q4 2025 was 0.41 at Colgate Palmolive, up from 0.38 in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, FCF Payout Ratio for CL hit a ceiling of 1.43 in Q1 2022 and a floor of 0.38 in Q3 2025.
  • Median FCF Payout Ratio over the past 5 years was 0.58 (2021), compared with a mean of 0.68.
  • Biggest five-year swings in FCF Payout Ratio: surged 297.75% in 2021 and later plummeted 52.38% in 2023.
  • Colgate Palmolive's FCF Payout Ratio stood at 0.54 in 2021, then skyrocketed by 97.51% to 1.07 in 2022, then tumbled by 49.78% to 0.54 in 2023, then dropped by 12.09% to 0.47 in 2024, then decreased by 13.48% to 0.41 in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for FCF Payout Ratio were 0.41 (Q4 2025), 0.38 (Q3 2025), and 0.61 (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.