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

Colgate Palmolive (CL) has 17 years of Return on Sales data on record, last reported at 0.0% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 16.0% year-over-year to 0.0%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.11%, down 4.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.11%, 4.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.0% in Q4 2025 per CL's latest filing, down from 0.15% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.17% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 0.0% in Q4 2025.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.13%, with a median of 0.15% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: rose 14bps in 2023, then fell -16bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.04% in 2021, then plummeted by -78bps to 0.01% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 1553bps to 0.15% in 2023, then rose by 2bps to 0.16% in 2024, then tumbled by -100bps to 0.0% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Sales were 0.0% in Q4 2025, 0.15% in Q3 2025, and 0.15% in Q2 2025.