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

Historic Operating Margin for Colgate Palmolive (CL) over the last 17 years, with Q3 2025 value amounting to 20.64%.

  • Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin fell 5200.0% to 20.64% in Q3 2025 from the same period last year, while for Sep 2025 it was 21.29%, marking a year-over-year increase of 200.0%. This contributed to the annual value of 21.23% for FY2024, which is 7600.0% up from last year.
  • Latest data reveals that Colgate Palmolive reported Operating Margin of 20.64% as of Q3 2025, which was down 5200.0% from 21.14% recorded in Q2 2025.
  • Over the past 5 years, Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin peaked at 23.38% during Q2 2021, and registered a low of 4.36% during Q4 2022.
  • In the last 5 years, Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin had a median value of 21.14% in 2025 and averaged 19.58%.
  • As far as peak fluctuations go, Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin crashed by -141200bps in 2021, and later skyrocketed by 172900bps in 2023.
  • Over the past 5 years, Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin (Quarter) stood at 8.29% in 2021, then plummeted by -47bps to 4.36% in 2022, then soared by 396bps to 21.66% in 2023, then decreased by -1bps to 21.5% in 2024, then dropped by -4bps to 20.64% in 2025.
  • Its Operating Margin was 20.64% in Q3 2025, compared to 21.14% in Q2 2025 and 21.91% in Q1 2025.