Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE: CL) on Tuesday, soared 1.84% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $76.98. Within the past 52 weeks, CL’s price has moved between $76.68 and $102.61.
Annual sales at Consumer Defensive sector company grew by 5.01% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 1.51%. With a float of $807.04 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $808.22 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 34000 employees.
Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Household & Personal Products industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Colgate-Palmolive Co is 0.15%, while institutional ownership is 85.55%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 15 ’25, was worth 200,183. In this transaction Chief Human Resources Officer of this company sold 2,250 shares at a rate of $88.97, taking the stock ownership to the 12,583 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 25 ’25, when Company’s Chief Human Resources Officer sold 8,000 for $92.02, making the entire transaction worth $736,152. This insider now owns 14,805 shares in total.
Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) Performance Highlights and Predictions
As on 9/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.91 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 0.88) by 0.03. 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 1.51% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 4.63% during the next five years compared to 5.01% 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 0.57 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 3.17. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 18.80.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.56, a number that is poised to hit 0.89 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.88 in one year’s time.
