CLColgate-Palmolive

Consumer staples · Cosmetics · NYSE

Colgate-Palmolive Company (together with its subsidiaries, “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company” or “Colgate-Palmolive”) is a caring, innovative growth company united behind our purpose to reimagine a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. 10-K, Item 1

Employees: 33,600
Headquarters: New York, NY
CEO: Noel R. Wallace
Next results: around Jan 29, 2027

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Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks

prospectuses (S-3, 424B) of the last three years and the 10-K cash flow From EDGAR

Shares offered

No S-3 or 424B prospectus for shares since Nov 11, 2023.

Paid in stock

$155.0M

stock-based pay, year to Dec 31, 2025; shares sold for $101.0M in cash

Bought back

$1.2B

cash paid for its own shares, year to Dec 31, 2025: 7.8× the stock pay

Diluted shares: 811.10M in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 -1.5%2024 -0.7%2023 -1.1%2022 -1.1%

Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How

Where the cash came from and where it went

Last year 3 years 5 years

FY2025, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up.

Came from

Operating cash flow NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities, 0000021665-26-000006	$4.2B
Shares sold ProceedsFromStockOptionsExercised, 0000021665-26-000006	$101.0M

Went to

Capital spending PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets, 0000021665-26-000006	$564.0M
Acquisitions PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired, 0000021665-26-000006	$293.0M
Buybacks PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock, 0000021665-26-000006	$1.2B
Added to cash CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalentsPeriodIncreaseDecreaseIncludingExchangeRateEffect, 0000021665-26-000006	$192.0M
Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates	$2.0B

Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.

Each CEO's years

The CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table, and what the 10-Ks show for those years. Facts, not a grade.

Noel Wallace

FY2021 to FY2025 · 5 years in the table

Operating cash flow: $17.9B
Capital spending: $3.1B
Acquisitions: $1.1B
Buybacks: $6.7B
Stock-based pay: $672.0M
Diluted shares since FY2020: -5.6%
Revenue since FY2020: +24%
Debt since FY2020: +$496.0M
CEO pay (reported): $81.8M

The proxy that names the CEO ↗

Buybacks, year to Dec 31, 2025

$1.2B

cash paid for its own shares

Paid in stock to employees

$155.0M

buybacks were 7.8× this

Share count, 1 year

-1.5%

fewer shares: each share owns more

Share count, 3 years

-3.3%

diluted average shares

Fiscal year to	Buybacks	Dividends	Stock pay	Shares issued for cash	Diluted shares
2025-12-31	$1.2B	$1.8B	$155.0M	$101.0M	811.10M
2024-12-31	$1.7B	$1.8B	$135.0M	$638.0M	823.20M
2023-12-31	$1.1B	$1.7B	$122.0M	$380.0M	829.20M
2022-12-31	$1.3B	$1.7B	$125.0M	$418.0M	838.80M
2021-12-31	$1.3B	$1.7B	$135.0M	$424.0M	848.30M

From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfOrdinaryDividends; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; issuance = ProceedsFromStockOptionsExercised; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.

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