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

Colgate Palmolive has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.0% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.0% for Q4 2025, down 16.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.11% (down 4.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.11%, down 4.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.0% at Colgate Palmolive, down from 0.15% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for CL hit a ceiling of 0.17% in Q2 2021 and a floor of 0.0% in Q4 2025.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.15% (2025), compared with a mean of 0.13%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: increased 14bps in 2023 and later decreased -16bps in 2025.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Return on Sales stood at 0.04% in 2021, then tumbled by -78bps to 0.01% in 2022, then surged by 1553bps to 0.15% in 2023, then grew by 3bps to 0.16% in 2024, then plummeted by -101bps to 0.0% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.0% (Q4 2025), 0.15% (Q3 2025), and 0.15% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.