Colgate Palmolive (CL) Return on Invested Capital (2009 - 2025)

Colgate Palmolive's Return on Invested Capital history runs 16 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 0.01% for Q4 2025.

• On a quarterly basis, Return on Invested Capital fell 7.0% year-over-year to 0.01% in Q4 2025; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.01%, a 7.0% decrease from a year earlier, with the FY2024 full-year figure at 0.1%, down 160.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Invested Capital declined to 0.01% in Q4 2025 per CL's latest filing, from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 0.62% in Q4 2021 and bottomed at 0.01% in Q4 2025.
• The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.38% (2023), against an average of 0.29%.
• Across the five-year window, Return on Invested Capital jumped 59 bps in 2021 and plunged 42 bps in 2025, its largest moves.
• Year by year, Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.62% in 2021, then plunged by 33 bps to 0.42% in 2022, then increased by 7 bps to 0.45% in 2023, then plunged by 82 bps to 0.08% in 2024, then slumped by 85 bps to 0.01% in 2025.
• Per Business Quant, the three latest CL Return on Invested Capital figures stand at 0.01% (Q4 2025), 0.01% (Q3 2025), and 0.01% (Q2 2025).