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Colgate Palmolive quarterly revenue rises 4.6% to $5.37 billion

Colgate Palmolive's revenue growth is holding steady. Results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Oct 30, 2026.

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Colgate Palmolive's revenue growth is holding steady: revenue rose 4.6% to $5.37 billion in the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from $5.13 billion a year earlier, after 4.9% year over year growth the quarter before.

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What We Know

Revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $5.37 billion, versus $5.13 billion in the same quarter a year earlier, up 4.6%. That is its highest quarterly revenue of the last eight quarters. Diluted earnings per share was $0.94, up from $0.91.

Bar chart: Colgate Palmolive: revenue, last eight quarters. US$ billions by fiscal quarter end, as of Oct 30, 2026. Dec 2024 4.95; Mar 2025 4.91; Jun 2025 5.11; Sep 2025 5.13; Dec 2025 5.23; Mar 2026 5.32; Jun 2026 5.36; Sep 2026 5.37. Latest quarter $5.37B, Up 4.6% vs a year earlier.
Source: SEC EDGAR (earnings release and XBRL financial data)

Quarterly revenue by fiscal quarter end, oldest first: Dec 2024: $4.95 billion; Mar 2025: $4.91 billion; Jun 2025: $5.11 billion; Sep 2025: $5.13 billion; Dec 2025: $5.23 billion; Mar 2026: $5.32 billion; Jun 2026: $5.36 billion; Sep 2026: $5.37 billion.

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Year over year revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Dec 2025 up 5.8%; Mar 2026 up 8.4%; Jun 2026 up 4.9%; Sep 2026 up 4.6%. On those figures, Colgate Palmolive's revenue growth is holding steady. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.

Bear Case · Room for Disagreement

This brief covers reported revenue and diluted earnings per share only. It does not cover guidance, margins, segment results, cash flow or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast. Revenue is the total on the release line we matched; a company's own adjusted measures can differ.

Method and source. Octans Research matched the revenue line in the earnings release (Exhibit 99.1) to the year ago quarter the company reported in its own XBRL financial data; the two must agree before anything is published. The quarterly history comes from the same XBRL data. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.

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$CL adjusted close, last 6 months $CL adjusted close, last 6 months: series rising from 84.4 to 95.3 (+12.9%) from 2026-05-04 to 2026-10-30. Scale 80 to 100. 80859095100 2026-05-042026-10-30 $CL ADJUSTED CLOSE, LAST 6 MONTHS +12.9% 95.29
Source: Tiingo · As of 2026-10-30Indicative, not investment advice.

Sources

  1. [1]SEC EDGAR — Colgate Palmolive earnings release for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1), filed Oct 30, 2026
  2. [2]SEC EDGAR — Colgate Palmolive XBRL financial data (company facts)

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