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Colgate-Palmolive price to free cash flow CL

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2010.

Today, Oct 23, 2026
19.4×
10-year median
23.3×
Against its 10-year history
9th
percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range
17.4× to 34.3×
Peer median
20.1×

Colgate-Palmolive's price to free cash flow is 19.4× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 23.3×, lower than on 91% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 17.4× in Oct 2026 to 34.3× in Apr 2023.

The median for 6 household and personal products stocks of a similar size is 20.1×.

Price to free cash flow over time

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

YearEnd of yearLowHigh
2026 so far19.4×17.4×22.6×
202518.7×18.0×22.1×
202422.1×22.1×27.3×
202325.7×23.2×34.3×
202228.4×22.0×29.1×
202127.2×19.2×27.2×
202021.8×19.0×24.5×
201922.1×21.0×24.3×
201821.0×21.0×26.8×
201726.1×22.7×26.2×
201623.0×22.7×31.0×
201526.1×23.0×26.2×
201426.0×20.4×26.0×
201321.9×19.5×22.2×
201220.1×17.4×21.3×
201118.1×14.3×18.3×
201015.3×13.9×16.4×

Against its peers

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

CompanyPrice to free cash flow
CLColgate-Palmolive19.4×
ELEstée Lauder Companies29.9×
KVUEKenvue19.6×
KMBKimberly-Clark20.1×
CHDChurch & Dwight22.4×
PGProcter & Gamblen/m
AVYAvery Dennison13.0×
Peer median20.1×

What the price to free cash flow tells you

Market value divided by free cash flow: the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment. Cash is harder to manage than accounting earnings, so many investors trust this more than PE.

Lumpy: a big year of building factories drops cash flow and inflates the ratio without the business getting worse.

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