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Colgate Palmolive (CL) Operating Margin: 2009-2025

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

  • Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin fell 52.00% 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 2.00%. This contributed to the annual value of 21.23% for FY2024, which is 76.00% up from last year.
  • Per Colgate Palmolive's latest filing, its Operating Margin stood at 20.64% for Q3 2025, which was down 2.35% from 21.14% recorded in Q2 2025.
  • In the past 5 years, Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin ranged from a high of 23.38% in Q2 2021 and a low of 4.36% during Q4 2022.
  • Moreover, its 3-year median value for Operating Margin was 21.14% (2025), whereas its average is 20.95%.
  • As far as peak fluctuations go, Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin crashed by 1,412bps in 2021, and later soared by 1,729bps in 2023.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Operating Margin (Quarterly) stood at 8.29% in 2021, then tumbled by 393bps to 4.36% in 2022, then surged by 1,729bps to 21.66% in 2023, then declined by 16bps to 21.50% in 2024, then slumped by 52bps to 20.64% in 2025.
  • Its Operating Margin stands at 20.64% for Q3 2025, versus 21.14% for Q2 2025 and 21.91% for Q1 2025.