Colgate-Palmolive PE ratio CL

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months, since 2010.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 37.3×
10-year median: 27.2×
Against its 10-year history: 88th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 21.6× to 47.0×
Peer median: 23.4×

Colgate-Palmolive's PE ratio is 37.3× as of Oct 23, 2026: a share price of $94.04 against $2.52 of earnings per share over the last twelve months.

That is above its ten-year median of 27.2×, higher than on 88% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 21.6× in Oct 2025 to 47.0× in Feb 2017.

The median for 6 household and personal products stocks of a similar size is 23.4×.

PE ratio over time

median 27.2×

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	37.3×	21.8×	37.8×
2025	22.3×	21.6×	27.5×
2024	26.3×	26.3×	44.1×
2023	41.5×	31.3×	42.7×
2022	34.4×	25.4×	36.2×
2021	27.3×	23.7×	27.3×
2020	27.3×	22.6×	28.4×
2019	25.6×	23.8×	28.4×
2018	24.6×	24.6×	31.4×
2017	29.1×	25.7×	47.0×
2016	42.8×	23.2×	49.5×
2015	24.7×	23.9×	30.7×
2014	31.1×	25.2×	31.1×
2013	27.1×	21.0×	27.4×
2012	20.4×	17.8×	21.5×
2011	18.6×	17.3×	19.3×
2010	18.8×	17.7×	18.9×

Against its peers

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

Company	PE ratio
CLColgate-Palmolive	37.3×
ELEstée Lauder Companies	222×
KVUEKenvue	22.5×
KMBKimberly-Clark	18.7×
CHDChurch & Dwight	33.8×
PGProcter & Gamble	24.3×
AVYAvery Dennison	19.9×
Peer median	23.4×

Where Colgate-Palmolive ranks

What the PE ratio tells you

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months. It is the price tag on a dollar of profit: 20× means you pay $20 for $1 of yearly earnings.

Blank while earnings are negative. A very low PE can mean the market expects profits to fall, so read it with growth and the company's own history.

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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.