On Tuesday, Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE: CL) was 1.02% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $92.94. A 52-week range for CL has been $75.50 – $109.30.
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Annual sales at Consumer Defensive sector company grew by 4.62% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 10.97%. With a float of $816.06 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $817.01 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted 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 and Institutional Ownership
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 84.31%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 26 ’24, was worth 101,121. In this transaction EVP and Controller of this company sold 1,054 shares at a rate of $95.94, taking the stock ownership to the 9,620 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 22 ’24, when Company’s Chairman, President & CEO sold 33,333 for $95.00, making the entire transaction worth $3,166,635. This insider now owns 270,689 shares in total.
Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.93 per share during the current fiscal year.
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 3.82. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 22.56.
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)
Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE: CL) saw its 5-day average volume 4.35 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 4.39 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 14.35%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.63.
During the past 100 days, Colgate-Palmolive Co’s (CL) raw stochastic average was set at 19.99%, which indicates a significant decrease from 28.09% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 15.65% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 18.23% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $96.26, while its 200-day Moving Average is $95.87. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $94.49 in the near term. At $95.10, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $96.19. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $92.79, it is likely to go to the next support level at $91.70. The third support level lies at $91.09 if the price breaches the second support level.
Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE: CL) Key Stats
There are 817,011K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 76.71 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.
