Colgate-Palmolive Company
Colgate-Palmolive Company is classed by the SEC under Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations (industry code 2844), based in New York, NY. In its latest annual figures on file, for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, it reported revenue of $20 billion and a profit of $2.1 billion (its filed statements).
vs its business-model standard
Three tenses, nine metrics. Unseen metrics stay unseen; the grade never fakes a number. Proxy era: provisional values, marked. Weighed as a product business: prior from its industry code (SEC 2844, Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations); the filing read can change it. All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
The grade, in three tenses
Headline 6.2 out of ten, 9 of 9 metrics filed: past 7.1 out of ten, present 6.8 out of ten, future 4.4 out of ten. The past asks what it actually did, the present what it is doing right now, the future what it is set up to do next.
The nine metrics
- Surviving crises (past): 7.2 out of ten. No warning events in its filings since 2017. 72nd percentile among 18 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Track record (past): 7.7 out of ten. +3.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10. 77th percentile among 16 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Shareholder treatment (past): 5.8 out of ten. Share count shrank 1.1% a year. 34% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 15 sales, 0 purchases. 58th percentile among 11 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Financial health (present): 6.4 out of ten. ROE 3948%: 3948¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 100%: owes 100¢ per asset dollar. 64th percentile among 17 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Industry position (present): 7.2 out of ten. top 28% of 17 in its family; net margin 10.5%. 72nd percentile among 17 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Leadership (present): 7.0 out of ten. top 30% of 10 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019. 70th percentile among 10 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-09).
- Room to expand (future): 3.8 out of ten. bottom 38% of 17 in its family for room to expand. 38th percentile among 17 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Growth drivers (future): 5.5 out of ten. top 45% of 16 in its family for growth drivers. 55th percentile among 16 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Expectations vs reality (future): 3.9 out of ten. bottom 39% of 16 in its family for expectations against reality. 39th percentile among 16 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
The filing record
Newest annual report: Form 10-K filed 2026-02-23 for the period ended 2025-12-31 (on EDGAR). Newest quarterly report: Form 10-Q filed 2026-07-31 for the period ended 2026-06-30 (on EDGAR). Newest results release: Form 8-K filed 2026-07-31 (on EDGAR). Newest filing: Form 4, 2026-10-02. Filings on record since 1994. Read from EDGAR 2026-10-12.
Who runs it
Wallace, Noel R. (Chairman, President & CEO); Parameswaran, Prabha (Vice Chair); Sutula, Stanley J III (Chief Financial Officer); Grant, Shane (COO, Americas); Tsourapas, Panagiotis (COO, CD, EMEA, APac, Skin); Hazlin, John (Chief Growth Officer); Massey, Sally (Chief People Officer); Fishbone, Betsy (CLO and Secretary); Malcolm, Gregory (EVP and Controller); Daniels, Jennifer (CLO and Secretary); and 9 more. 19 officers and directors have filed their own trades in the last fifteen months, names and titles as filed with the SEC, through 2026-10-02.
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