A major move is in the offing as Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) market cap hits 78.20 billion

On Friday, Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE: CL) was 2.31% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $91.45. A 52-week range for CL has been $75.17 – $109.30.

During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Consumer Defensive Sector giant was 4.62%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 10.97%. With a float of $816.02 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 60.29%, operating margin of 22.48%, and the pretax margin is 19.65%.

Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) Insider Activity

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Colgate-Palmolive Co stocks. The insider ownership of Colgate-Palmolive Co is 0.12%, while institutional ownership is 84.24%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 05 ’24, was worth 4,273,426. In this transaction Chief Financial Officer of this company sold 45,410 shares at a rate of $94.11, taking the stock ownership to the 36,726 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 05 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 45,410 for $94.11, making the entire transaction worth $4,273,424.

Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 10.97% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.45% 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

You can see what Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.68. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.89. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 23.00.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.48, a number that is poised to hit 0.90 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.87 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 4.79 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 4.39 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 43.00%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.71.

During the past 100 days, Colgate-Palmolive Co’s (CL) raw stochastic average was set at 18.28%, which indicates a significant decrease from 64.23% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 24.06% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 17.97% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $99.31, while its 200-day Moving Average is $95.03. However, in the short run, Colgate-Palmolive Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $94.72. Second resistance stands at $95.88. The third major resistance level sits at $97.62. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $91.82, it is likely to go to the next support level at $90.08. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $88.92.

Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE: CL) Key Stats

There are 817,011K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 78.20 billion. As of now, sales total 19,457 M while income totals 2,300 M. Its latest quarter income was 5,033 M while its last quarter net income were 737,000 K.