Colgate Palmolive (CL) Operating Margin (2009 - 2026)

Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin history runs 18 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 18.11% for Q1 2026.

• In Q1 2026, Operating Margin fell 380.0% year-over-year to 18.11%; the TTM figure through Mar 2026 stood at 15.36% (down 617.0% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 16.22%, down 501.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin was 18.11% for Q1 2026 at Colgate Palmolive, up from 1.76% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 21.91% in Q1 2025 to a low of 1.76% in Q4 2025.
• Historically, Operating Margin has averaged 18.54% across 5 years, with a median of 20.67% in 2024.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2023 and 2025: Operating Margin jumped 1729 bps in 2023, then plunged 1974 bps in 2025.
• A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 4.36% in 2022, then jumped by 396 bps to 21.66% in 2023, then slipped by 1 bps to 21.5% in 2024, then plunged by 92 bps to 1.76% in 2025, then jumped by 929 bps to 18.11% in 2026.
• The last three Operating Margin figures came in at 18.11% (Q1 2026), 1.76% (Q4 2025), and 20.64% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.