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. Since then, CL shares have increased by 10.7% and is now trading at $76.24.
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13 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 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Colgate-Palmolive is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, November 6th 2020.
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Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, July, 31st. The company reported $0.74 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.05. The company had revenue of $3.90 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.78 billion. Colgate-Palmolive had a net margin of 16.13% and a return on equity of 559.34%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up .8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.72 earnings per share.
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Colgate-Palmolive declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, June 11th. Investors of record on Monday, July 20th will be given 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 2.31%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, July 17th.
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13 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Colgate-Palmolive's stock. Their forecasts range from $58.00 to $88.00. On average, they anticipate Colgate-Palmolive's stock price to reach $75.82 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.6%.
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Media headlines about CL stock have trended very positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Colgate-Palmolive earned a media sentiment score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.
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Colgate-Palmolive saw a decline in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 12,560,000 shares, a decline 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 days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.7 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Swiss National Bank (0.43%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.40%), Sarasin & Partners LLP (0.39%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.26%), M&G Investment Management Ltd. (0.22%) and Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.19%). Company insiders that own Colgate-Palmolive stock include Daniel B Marsili, Dennis J Hickey, 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.
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CL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including ProShare Advisors LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Prudential PLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., 6 Meridian, Hexavest Inc., New York State Common Retirement Fund, and Confluence Investment Management LLC. 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.
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CL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including M&G Investment Management Ltd., Conning Inc., Sarasin & Partners LLP, CIBC Asset Management Inc, LGT Capital Partners LTD., Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co. Ltd., Veracity Capital LLC, and Exchange Traded Concepts LLC.
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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 $76.24.

Colgate-Palmolive has a market capitalization of $65.37 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]