NYSE:CLColgate-Palmolive Stock Price, Forecast & News

Colgate-Palmolive's stock was trading at $68.90 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, CL shares have increased by 8.1% and is now trading at $74.49. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Colgate-Palmolive in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Colgate-Palmolive.

Colgate-Palmolive is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, July 31st 2020. View our earnings forecast for Colgate-Palmolive.

Colgate-Palmolive will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, July 31st at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, May, 1st. The company reported $0.75 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.73 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $4.10 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.07 billion. Colgate-Palmolive had a return on equity of 942.99% and a net margin of 15.86%. Colgate-Palmolive's revenue for the quarter was up 5.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.67 earnings per share. View Colgate-Palmolive's earnings history.

Colgate-Palmolive declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, June 11th. Shareholders of record on Monday, July 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.44 per share on Friday, August 14th. This represents a $1.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.36%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, July 17th. View Colgate-Palmolive's dividend history.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Colgate-Palmolive's stock. Their forecasts range from $58.00 to $91.00. On average, they anticipate Colgate-Palmolive's share price to reach $75.54 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Colgate-Palmolive.

News stories about CL stock have been trending negative on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Colgate-Palmolive earned a news sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news about Colgate-Palmolive.

Colgate-Palmolive saw a drop in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 12,560,000 shares, a drop of 6.8% from the June 15th total of 13,470,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,580,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.7 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Colgate-Palmolive's Current Options Chain.

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Colgate-Palmolive trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CL."

Colgate-Palmolive's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.19%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.04%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%), Cullinan Associates Inc. (0.02%), DNB Asset Management AS (0.01%) and Private Asset Management Inc. (0.01%). Company insiders that own Colgate-Palmolive stock include Daniel B Marsili, Dennis J Hickey, Franck J Moison, Helene D Gayle, Henning I Jakobsen, Ian M Cook, Jennifer Daniels, John J Huston, John T Cahill, John W Kooyman, Justin Skala, Michael B Polk, Mukul Deoras, Noel R Wallace, Patricia Verduin, Philip G Shotts, Prabha Parameswaran and Stephen I Sadove. View institutional ownership trends for Colgate-Palmolive.

CL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Confluence Investment Management LLC, Legacy Capital Partners Inc., Global Trust Asset Management LLC, M&R Capital Management Inc., First Financial Bank Trust Division, Private Asset Management Inc., Truehand Inc, and Triangle Securities Wealth Management. Company insiders that have sold Colgate-Palmolive company stock in the last year include Daniel B Marsili, Helene D Gayle, Henning I Jakobsen, Ian M Cook, John J Huston, John T Cahill, John W Kooyman, Michael B Polk, Noel R Wallace, Patricia Verduin, Philip G Shotts, and Prabha Parameswaran. View insider buying and selling activity for Colgate-Palmolive.

CL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Envestnet Asset Management Inc., First American Trust FSB, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Livforsakringsbolaget Skandia Omsesidigt, Pure Financial Advisors Inc., Bangor Savings Bank, DNB Asset Management AS, and Private Trust Co. NA. View insider buying and selling activity for Colgate-Palmolive.

Shares of CL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of CL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $74.49.

Colgate-Palmolive has a market capitalization of $63.80 billion and generates $15.69 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $2.37 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.83 on an earnings per share basis. Colgate-Palmolive employs 34,300 workers across the globe.

The official website for Colgate-Palmolive is www.colgatepalmolive.com.

Colgate-Palmolive's mailing address is 300 PARK AVE, NEW YORK NY, 10022. The company can be reached via phone at 212-310-2000 or via email at [email protected]