Consumer products
Price
$95.13
+2.56%Market Cap
$76.12B
Day High
$95.42
Day Low
$93.24
Colgate-Palmolive (CL) delivered 8.4% revenue growth in Q1 FY2026 to $5.32B, but operating income fell 10.4% to $964M as surging SG&A expenses (+9.4%) compressed operating margin by 380 basis points to 18.1%.
Key risk: Extreme Financial Leverage
Colgate-Palmolive's debt-to-equity ratio stands at an exceptionally high 111.2x, with long-term debt of $7.94B against stockholders' equity of only $145M. This level of leverage leaves the company highly sensitive to interest rate increases and limits financial flexibility in a downturn.
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