Friday February 24th 2017: Colgate-Palmolive Company, CL is in the exchange NYSE and its industry is Personal Products in the sector of Consumer Goods. Based in USA, Colgate-Palmolive Company, CL has a market cap of 62.71B. Since its IPO date on the 01/03/1977, Colgate-Palmolive Company, CL performance year to date is 8.42%. Today Colgate-Palmolive Company, CL has gained -0.49%, with a current price of 70.95.
Ownership of the company is 0.30% for insider ownership while institutional ownership is 76.00%. The management of the company have seen the company have a payout ratio of 58.00%. Return of assets are at 19.30%, with return on investment at 42.70%.
In terms of debt levels and profit levels, Colgate-Palmolive Company, CL is seeing a long-term debt/equity of *TBA. While Total debt/equity is *TBA. With a profit margin of 15.80%, this is combined with a gross margin of 60.60%, and operating margin of 24.80%. Colgate-Palmolive Company ability to meet debt levels, with a current ratio of 1.2, while the quick ratio is 0.9.
For the last year Colgate-Palmolive Company, CL has seen a EPS growth of 78.60%. A performance for the year of -4.77%. The 52-week high is -8.18%, and the 52-week low is 11.86%. The average volume for Colgate-Palmolive Company, CL is 2076750.
With a target price of 75.68, can Colgate-Palmolive Company, CL reach this target? Looking at the value indicators of Colgate-Palmolive Company, CL. Colgate-Palmolive Company has a P/E of 26.4 and a forward P/E of 22.71. Perhaps the more useful indicator than P/E, is PEG which has a value of 3.49. Colgate-Palmolive Company also has a P/S and a P/B of 4.13 and *TBA respectively. For P/cash, Colgate-Palmolive Company has a value of 45.27, while it is 60.76 for P/free cash flow.
At the current price of 70.95, Colgate-Palmolive Company has a dividend yield of 2.26%. We see a return on equity of *TBA.
Looking more long-term Colgate-Palmolive Company, is projected to get an EPS growth for the next five years of 7.57%. In the short-term an EPS growth of 8.06% in the next year is forecasted. This is after a EPS growth of 78.60% for this year and for the last five years a 1.90% growth has been seen.
