Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL): Price and Financial Metrics

CL POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where CL ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.01% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CL is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• CL's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 15.64% of US stocks).

CL Stock Summary

• COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than only 0.07% of US listed stocks.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 67.6 for COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO; that's greater than it is for 99.33% of US stocks.
• The volatility of COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO's share price is greater than that of merely 0.81% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO are BGI, MCK, AVAH, KIRK, and CAH.
• Visit CL's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.colgatepalmolive.com.

CL Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, CL's price/sales ratio is 77.78% higher, now standing at 3.2.
• Over the past 243 months, CL's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CL.

CL Growth Metrics

Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 4.68%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 4.03%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 2.23%.

Over the past 55 months, CL's revenue has gone up $2,213,000,000.

The table below shows CL's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	17,967	2,556	1,785
2022-09-30	17,741	2,989	1,928
2022-06-30	17,700	3,014	1,944
2022-03-31	17,476	3,113	2,044
2021-12-31	17,421	3,325	2,166
2021-09-30	17,342	3,182	2,665

CL's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• CL has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 98.02% of graded US stocks.
• CL's asset turnover comes in at 1.091 -- ranking 19th of 50 Consumer Goods stocks.
• SCL, LEG, and ETD are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CL.

The table below shows CL's key quality metrics over time.