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

Colgate Palmolive has reported Gross Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 60.15% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Gross Margin at 60.15% for Q4 2025, down 15.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 60.11% (down 39.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 60.11%, down 39.0%.
  • Gross Margin for Q4 2025 was 60.15% at Colgate Palmolive, up from 59.42% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Gross Margin for CL hit a ceiling of 61.08% in Q3 2024 and a floor of 55.61% in Q4 2022.
  • Median Gross Margin over the past 5 years was 59.51% (2021), compared with a mean of 59.09%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Gross Margin: crashed -304bps in 2022 and later skyrocketed 399bps in 2023.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Gross Margin stood at 58.12% in 2021, then fell by -4bps to 55.61% in 2022, then grew by 7bps to 59.6% in 2023, then rose by 1bps to 60.3% in 2024, then fell by 0bps to 60.15% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Gross Margin were 60.15% (Q4 2025), 59.42% (Q3 2025), and 60.06% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.