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Colgate Palmolive (CL) Retained Earnings (2016 - 2025)

Colgate Palmolive has reported Retained Earnings over the past 17 years, most recently at -$3.9 billion for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Retained Earnings at -$3.9 billion for Q4 2025, up 8.12% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was -$3.9 billion (up 8.12% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was -$3.9 billion, up 8.12%.
  • Retained Earnings for Q4 2025 was -$3.9 billion at Colgate Palmolive, roughly flat from -$3.9 billion in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Retained Earnings for CL hit a ceiling of $26.7 billion in Q2 2025 and a floor of -$4.4 billion in Q3 2021.
  • Median Retained Earnings over the past 5 years was $24.2 billion (2022), compared with a mean of $13.2 billion.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Retained Earnings: plummeted 119.22% in 2021 and later surged 757.2% in 2025.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Retained Earnings stood at $24.4 billion in 2021, then tumbled by 116.65% to -$4.1 billion in 2022, then soared by 723.65% to $25.3 billion in 2023, then crashed by 116.7% to -$4.2 billion in 2024, then grew by 8.12% to -$3.9 billion in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Retained Earnings were -$3.9 billion (Q4 2025), -$3.9 billion (Q3 2025), and $26.7 billion (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.