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

Colgate Palmolive (CL) has 17 years of Return on Invested Capital data on record, last reported at 0.28% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 11.0% year-over-year to 0.28%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.28%, down 11.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.3%, 99.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital reached 0.28% in Q4 2025 per CL's latest filing, down from 0.36% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 0.54% in Q1 2025 and bottomed at 1.11% in Q2 2023.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.02%, with a median of 0.27% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: soared 163bps in 2021, then tumbled -122bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.42% in 2021, then decreased by -23bps to 0.32% in 2022, then crashed by -296bps to 0.64% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 163bps to 0.4% in 2024, then fell by -29bps to 0.28% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Invested Capital were 0.28% in Q4 2025, 0.36% in Q3 2025, and 0.5% in Q2 2025.