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

Colgate Palmolive (CL) has 17 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on record, last reported at 0.41 in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, FCF Payout Ratio fell 13.48% year-over-year to 0.41; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.5, down 0.57%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.5, 0.57% down from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio reached 0.41 in Q4 2025 per CL's latest filing, up from 0.38 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 1.43 in Q1 2022 and bottomed at 0.38 in Q3 2025.
  • Average FCF Payout Ratio over 5 years is 0.68, with a median of 0.58 recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for FCF Payout Ratio: soared 297.75% in 2021, then tumbled 52.38% in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.54 in 2021, then soared by 97.51% to 1.07 in 2022, then plummeted by 49.78% to 0.54 in 2023, then fell by 12.09% to 0.47 in 2024, then dropped by 13.48% to 0.41 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for FCF Payout Ratio were 0.41 in Q4 2025, 0.38 in Q3 2025, and 0.61 in Q2 2025.