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Colgate Palmolive (CL) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

Colgate Palmolive has reported Return on Assets over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.13% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Assets at 0.13% for Q4 2025, down 5.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.13% (down 5.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.14%, down 5.0%.
  • Return on Assets for Q4 2025 was 0.13% at Colgate Palmolive, down from 0.17% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Assets for CL hit a ceiling of 0.19% in Q1 2025 and a floor of 0.1% in Q2 2023.
  • Median Return on Assets over the past 5 years was 0.16% (2024), compared with a mean of 0.15%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Assets: decreased -5bps in 2022 and later grew 8bps in 2024.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Return on Assets stood at 0.15% in 2021, then fell by -19bps to 0.12% in 2022, then grew by 23bps to 0.15% in 2023, then rose by 23bps to 0.19% in 2024, then dropped by -28bps to 0.13% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Assets were 0.13% (Q4 2025), 0.17% (Q3 2025), and 0.18% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.