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

Colgate Palmolive has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.28% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.28% for Q4 2025, up 91.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.28% (up 91.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.29%, down 7.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.28% at Colgate Palmolive, down from 0.3% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for CL hit a ceiling of 0.53% in Q1 2025 and a floor of 0.78% in Q4 2023.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.17% (2021), compared with a mean of 0.01%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: crashed -116bps in 2022 and later soared 95bps in 2023.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.12% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 120bps to 0.26% in 2022, then crashed by -397bps to 0.78% in 2023, then rose by 19bps to 0.63% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 145bps to 0.28% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.28% (Q4 2025), 0.3% (Q3 2025), and 0.39% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.