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

Colgate Palmolive has reported Return on Equity over the past 17 years, most recently at 3.7% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Equity at 3.7% for Q4 2025, up 393.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 3.7% (up 393.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 4.97%, up 194.0%.
  • Return on Equity for Q4 2025 was 3.7% at Colgate Palmolive, up from 1.19% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Equity for CL hit a ceiling of 46.98% in Q2 2025 and a floor of 6.21% in Q4 2022.
  • Median Return on Equity over the past 5 years was 0.12% (2023), compared with a mean of 2.81%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Equity: plummeted -1441bps in 2022 and later surged 4718bps in 2025.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Return on Equity stood at 0.17% in 2021, then tumbled by -3751bps to 6.21% in 2022, then surged by 97bps to 0.2% in 2023, then dropped by -15bps to 0.23% in 2024, then soared by 1700bps to 3.7% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Equity were 3.7% (Q4 2025), 1.19% (Q3 2025), and 46.98% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.