Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL)
Colgate-Palmolive Company, manufactures and sells consumer products in the United States and internationally.
Scored against other Consumer Defensive stocks, not a fixed scale.
The quick read
Colgate-Palmolive reads as neutral right now, with no clear lean either way.
- What's working
- Its price has held up well, trading above its recent averages.
- Worth watching
- You're paying more for it than for most other everyday-goods companies, relative to what it earns.
Analyst price target
~12-month · 20 analystsPublished targets from Wall Street analysts (public data) — what analysts expect over roughly a year. This is not a StockGlow forecast and not a recommendation. Analyst targets are frequently wrong.
About Colgate-Palmolive Company
Colgate-Palmolive Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells consumer products in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments: Oral, Personal and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition…
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Household & Personal Products
- Employees
- 33,600
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
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What’s behind the score
Valuation
P/E 37.1 — lower than 19% of Consumer Defensive peers
P/B 317.9 — lower than 0% of Consumer Defensive peers
P/S 3.6 — lower than 22% of Consumer Defensive peers
EV/EBITDA 16.4 — lower than 33% of Consumer Defensive peers
EV/Revenue 3.9 — lower than 22% of Consumer Defensive peers
PEG 1.7 — lower than 53% of Consumer Defensive peers
FCF yield 4.6% — higher than 50% of Consumer Defensive peers
Profitability & quality
Gross margin 60.4% — higher than 78% of Consumer Defensive peers
Operating margin 21.0% — higher than 61% of Consumer Defensive peers
Net margin 9.7% — higher than 56% of Consumer Defensive peers
ROE 267.4% — higher than 100% of Consumer Defensive peers
ROA 15.8% — higher than 94% of Consumer Defensive peers
Free cash flow is 170% of reported net income
Financial health
Debt/equity 13.9 — lower than 0% of Consumer Defensive peers
Current ratio 1.03 — higher than 61% of Consumer Defensive peers
Quick ratio 0.56 — higher than 72% of Consumer Defensive peers
Cash/debt 0.18 — higher than 67% of Consumer Defensive peers
Debt/EBITDA 1.58 — lower than 78% of Consumer Defensive peers
Growth
Revenue growth 4.9% YoY — higher than 39% of Consumer Defensive peers
Earnings growth -5.5% YoY — higher than 38% of Consumer Defensive peers
Ownership & investor activity
Payout ratio 82.3% — somewhat unusual vs Consumer Defensive peers
Net insider selling, -0.2% of insider shares
Institutions net sold, -16.9% of shares held
Insiders hold 0.1% of shares outstanding
3.4% of float sold short
Momentum
Above its 50- & 200-day averages
79% of the way from its 52-week low to high