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Colgate Palmolive (CL) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Colgate Palmolive (CL) has 17 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.39% in Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Capital Employed changed 0.0% year-over-year to 0.39%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.39%, changed 0.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.41%, 6.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.39% in Q3 2025 per CL's latest filing, down from 0.42% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.45% in Q1 2025 and bottomed at 0.24% in Q4 2022.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.33%, with a median of 0.34% recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: dropped -7bps in 2022, then grew 12bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.29% in 2021, then decreased by -17bps to 0.24% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 44bps to 0.35% in 2023, then grew by 15bps to 0.4% in 2024, then fell by -3bps to 0.39% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.39% in Q3 2025, 0.42% in Q2 2025, and 0.45% in Q1 2025.