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Colgate Palmolive (CL) Operating Expenses (2016 - 2025)

Colgate Palmolive (CL) has 17 years of Operating Expenses data on record, last reported at $2.0 billion in Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Operating Expenses changed 0.35% year-over-year to $2.0 billion; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached $5.8 billion, up 49.76%, while the annual FY2024 figure was $7.7 billion, 8.08% up from the prior year.
  • Operating Expenses reached $2.0 billion in Q3 2025 per CL's latest filing, roughly flat from $2.0 billion in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Expenses topped out at $2.0 billion in Q3 2024 and bottomed at $1.6 billion in Q2 2021.
  • Average Operating Expenses over 5 years is $1.8 billion, with a median of $1.8 billion recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Expenses: increased 12.4% in 2021, then dropped 0.94% in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Expenses shows it stood at $1.6 billion in 2021, then decreased by 0.18% to $1.6 billion in 2022, then grew by 10.41% to $1.8 billion in 2023, then increased by 9.76% to $2.0 billion in 2024, then decreased by 0.35% to $2.0 billion in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Operating Expenses were $2.0 billion in Q3 2025, $2.0 billion in Q2 2025, and $1.9 billion in Q1 2025.