Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) on Tuesday, soared 0.31% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $99.36. Within the past 52 weeks, CL’s price has moved between $71.46 and $109.30.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Consumer Defensive Sector giant was 4.62%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 10.72%. With a float of $816.10 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $821.41 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 34000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 59.66%, operating margin of 22.43%, and the pretax margin is 19.62%.
Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Household & Personal Products industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Colgate-Palmolive Co. is 0.12%, while institutional ownership is 84.04%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 23 ’24, was worth 240,228. In this transaction Director of this company sold 2,313 shares at a rate of $103.86, taking the stock ownership to the 11,755 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 23 ’24, when Company’s Director proposed sale 2,313 for $103.86, making the entire transaction worth $240,228.
Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL) Recent Fiscal highlights
As on 6/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 0.8) by 0.06. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.91 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 10.72% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.26% 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
Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.70 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.07. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 24.25.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.44, a number that is poised to hit 0.89 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.89 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL)
Looking closely at Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL), its last 5-days average volume was 3.71 million, which is a drop from its year-to-date volume of 4.33 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 31.87%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.48.
During the past 100 days, Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s (CL) raw stochastic average was set at 48.03%, which indicates a significant increase from 38.24% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 16.93% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 15.33% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $103.26, while its 200-day Moving Average is $93.94. However, in the short run, Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $100.19. Second resistance stands at $100.70. The third major resistance level sits at $101.46. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $98.92, it is likely to go to the next support level at $98.16. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $97.65.
Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 81.44 billion based on 820,441K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 19,457 M and income totals 2,300 M. The company made 5,058 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 731,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
