Colgate-Palmolive forward PE CL

Share price divided by analysts' consensus earnings for the next twelve months, since 1996.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 24.0×
10-year median: 24.7×
Against its 10-year history: 37th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 20.8× to 30.6×
Peer median: 23.3×

Colgate-Palmolive's forward PE is 24.0× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 24.7×, close to the middle of its last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 20.8× in Oct 2023 to 30.6× in Sep 2024.

The median for 6 household and personal products stocks of a similar size is 23.3×.

Forward PE over time

median 24.7×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	24.0×	20.8×	26.2×
2025	21.4×	20.9×	27.2×
2024	26.0×	23.4×	30.6×
2023	23.3×	20.8×	26.6×
2022	26.2×	23.4×	28.4×
2021	28.7×	23.6×	28.7×
2020	27.1×	21.4×	27.3×
2019	24.2×	21.2×	26.2×
2018	21.2×	21.1×	26.2×
2017	25.5×	22.7×	26.4×
2016	23.0×	22.7×	26.6×
2015	24.2×	22.4×	25.4×
2014	25.3×	21.1×	25.3×
2013	22.5×	19.2×	22.8×
2012	18.7×	16.8×	19.8×
2011	17.6×	15.4×	18.2×
2010	16.4×	15.6×	18.4×
2009	18.0×	13.3×	18.7×
2008	16.9×	14.5×	22.1×
2007	21.9×	18.9×	22.4×

Against its peers

Companies in Household & Personal Products nearest Colgate-Palmolive's size, closest first, today.

Company	Forward PE
CLColgate-Palmolive	24.0×
ELEstée Lauder Companies	32.8×
KVUEKenvue	16.2×
KMBKimberly-Clark	15.8×
CHDChurch & Dwight	26.9×
PGProcter & Gamble	23.3×
AVYAvery Dennison	n/m
Peer median	23.3×

Where Colgate-Palmolive ranks

#20of 26Consumer staples stocks with the lowest forward PE

What the forward PE tells you

Price divided by what analysts expect the company to earn over the next twelve months. It answers "what am I paying for next year" instead of last year.

Estimates are opinions. When forward PE is far below trailing PE, analysts expect a big jump in earnings. If that jump slips, the stock was not as cheap as it looked.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.