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

Colgate Palmolive has reported Net Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.1% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Net Margin at 0.1% for Q4 2025, down 1585.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 11.09% (down 409.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 11.09%, down 408.0%.
  • Net Margin for Q4 2025 was 0.1% at Colgate Palmolive, down from 14.93% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Net Margin for CL hit a ceiling of 17.39% in Q2 2021 and a floor of 0.1% in Q4 2025.
  • Median Net Margin over the past 5 years was 15.03% (2025), compared with a mean of 12.69%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Net Margin: surged 1442bps in 2023 and later tumbled -1585bps in 2025.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Net Margin stood at 4.27% in 2021, then tumbled by -78bps to 0.93% in 2022, then soared by 1553bps to 15.35% in 2023, then rose by 3bps to 15.75% in 2024, then plummeted by -101bps to 0.1% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Net Margin were 0.1% (Q4 2025), 14.93% (Q3 2025), and 15.13% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.