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What Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) Investors Need to Know Today

Shares of Consumer Discretionary sector company Colgate-Palmolive Company moved 0.8% today, and are now trading at a price of $77.16. The large-cap stock's daily volume was 2,150,436 compared to its average volume of 4,362,628. The S&P 500 index returned a 0.0% performance.

Colgate-Palmolive Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells consumer products worldwide. The company is based in New York and has 33,800 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $63,531,388,928. Colgate-Palmolive Company currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 2.5% per year.

18 analysts are following Colgate-Palmolive Company and have set target prices ranging from $60.3 to $82.22 per share. On average, they have given the company a rating of buy. At today's prices, CL is trading 4.27% away from its average analyst target price of $74.0 per share.

Over the last year, CL's share price has increased by 1.0%, which represents a difference of -13.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $82.09 per share whereas its 52 week low is $67.62. Colgate-Palmolive Company's average free cash flow over the last 6 years has been $2.62 Billion, but they have been decreasing at an average rate of -1.8%. This may prove a challenge to the long term sustainability of the stock's upwards trend.

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2023 3,099,000 743,000 2,356,000 26.67
2022 2,556,000 696,000 1,860,000 -32.56
2021 3,325,000 567,000 2,758,000 -16.65
2020 3,719,000 410,000 3,309,000 18.26
2019 3,133,000 335,000 2,798,000 6.79
2018 3,056,000 436,000 2,620,000
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