Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE: CL) kicked off on Tuesday, up 2.09% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $74.98. Over the past 52 weeks, CL has traded in a range of $74.54-$100.18.
During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Consumer Defensive Sector giant was 5.01%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 1.48%. With a float of $804.88 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $806.06 million.
Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) Insider Activity
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 0.15%, while institutional ownership is 86.50%. 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) Earnings and Forecasts
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 12/31/2024, the organization reported 0.91 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 0.89) by 0.02. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.95 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 1.48% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 4.45% 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
Take a look at Colgate-Palmolive Co’s (CL) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.60. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.07. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 17.92.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.57, a number that is poised to hit 0.92 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.84 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 10.95 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 5.46 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 29.10%.
During the past 100 days, Colgate-Palmolive Co’s (CL) raw stochastic average was set at 10.21%, which indicates a significant decrease from 34.07% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 1.41 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 1.41 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $80.12, while its 200-day Moving Average is $87.34. However, in the short run, Colgate-Palmolive Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $77.09. Second resistance stands at $77.63. The third major resistance level sits at $78.68. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $75.51, it is likely to go to the next support level at $74.46. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $73.92.
Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE: CL) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 61.70 billion has total of 808,221K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 20,101 M in contrast with the sum of 2,889 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 5,131 M and last quarter income was 735,000 K.
