How Colgate-Palmolive Company stacks up

CL · against 151 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

94/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #10 of 152 · scores higher than 92% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

21 peers with a profitability score of 90–100, including CL · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 94?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly thanks to its return on assets, return on invested capital and operating margin, which are stronger than most Consumer Defensive peers.

a wider operating margin: stronger than 78% of peers. Operating margin: 14.9% vs peer median 7.6%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 93% of peers. Return on invested capital: 37.0% vs peer median 7.7%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 94% of peers. Return on assets: 12.1% vs peer median 4.0%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = CL, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	CL	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 147 reported	37.0%	8.4%	91%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 153 reported	14.9%	5.9%	82%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 152 reported	12.1%	4.3%	89%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 144 reported	267.4%	10.2%	100%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 154 reported	60.4%	35.5%	87%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around CL

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Altria Group, Inc.MO · US-listed	128.5B USD	99	46
1	Philip Morris International Inc.PM · US-listed	324.2B USD	99	54
1	Phoenix Education Partners, Inc.PXED · US-listed	843M USD	99	88
4	The Vita Coco Company, Inc.COCO · US-listed	3.5B USD	98	73
5	National Beverage Corp.FIZZ · US-listed	3.4B USD	97	54
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7	Laureate Education, Inc.LAUR · US-listed	4.9B USD	96	71
8	BellRing Brands, Inc.BRBR · US-listed	1.1B USD	95	67
8	Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.COKE · US-listed	13.7B USD	95	51
10	Ambev S.A.ABEV · US-listed	40.7B USD	94	66
10	Colgate-Palmolive CompanyCL · US-listed	76.2B USD	94	43
10	The Coca-Cola CompanyKO · US-listed	407.9B USD	94	53
10	Niagen Bioscience, Inc.NAGE · US-listed	187M USD	94	78
14	Stride, Inc.LRN · US-listed	3.1B USD	93	89
14	Perdoceo Education CorporationPRDO · US-listed	1.9B USD	93	85

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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