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

Colgate Palmolive has reported Other Operating Expenses over the past 14 years, most recently at -$65.0 million for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Other Operating Expenses at -$65.0 million for Q4 2025, down 182.61% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was -$123.0 million (up 25.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was -$123.0 million, up 25.0%.
  • Other Operating Expenses for Q4 2025 was -$65.0 million at Colgate Palmolive, down from -$19.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Other Operating Expenses for CL hit a ceiling of $33.0 million in Q3 2022 and a floor of -$76.0 million in Q1 2024.
  • Median Other Operating Expenses over the past 5 years was -$26.0 million (2023), compared with a mean of -$30.6 million.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Other Operating Expenses: plummeted 400.0% in 2021 and later surged 265.0% in 2022.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Other Operating Expenses stood at -$25.0 million in 2021, then rose by 28.0% to -$18.0 million in 2022, then crashed by 316.67% to -$75.0 million in 2023, then surged by 69.33% to -$23.0 million in 2024, then tumbled by 182.61% to -$65.0 million in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Other Operating Expenses were -$65.0 million (Q4 2025), -$19.0 million (Q3 2025), and -$26.0 million (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.