Investors must take note of Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s (CL) performance last week, which was 2.51%.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) kicked off on Monday, up 1.38% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $87.13. Over the past 52 weeks, CL has traded in a range of $67.62-$90.37.

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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Consumer Defensive sector saw sales topped by 4.62%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 8.24%. With a float of $822.18 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $823.15 million.

The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 34000 workers is very important to gauge.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Household & Personal Products Industry. The insider ownership of Colgate-Palmolive Co. is 0.12%, while institutional ownership is 85.13%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 20 ’24, was worth 5,890,887. In this transaction Chairman, President & CEO of this company sold 69,948 shares at a rate of $84.22, taking the stock ownership to the 286,881 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 20 ’24, when Company’s CLO and Secretary sold 3,538 for $84.67, making the entire transaction worth $299,578. This insider now owns 59,698 shares in total.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL) Latest Financial update

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 8.24% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.47% during the next five years compared to 0.18% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s (CL) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.71. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.74. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 23.92.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.78, a number that is poised to hit 0.81 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.81 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL)

The latest stats from [Colgate-Palmolive Co., CL] show that its last 5-days average volume of 4.39 million was inferior to 4.56 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 60.29%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.02.

During the past 100 days, Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s (CL) raw stochastic average was set at 86.28%, which indicates a significant increase from 77.41% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 11.07% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 13.62% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $87.06, while its 200-day Moving Average is $78.91. Now, the first resistance to watch is $88.96. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $89.59. The third major resistance level sits at $90.45. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $87.47, it is likely to go to the next support level at $86.61. The third support level lies at $85.98 if the price breaches the second support level.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 72.71 billion has total of 821,986K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 19,457 M in contrast with the sum of 2,300 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 4,950 M and last quarter income was 718,000 K.