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Colgate-Palmolive

Colgate-Palmolive has it' headquarter based in New York. The core activities of Colgate-Palmolive are in the household goods sector. Ianâ�Cook leads the company as CEO. J. Pedroâ�Reinhard runs the company as a CFO. The global household companies gained around 34 percent over the period 2006-2016. Measured since 2011 the sector is 37 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a plus of 34 percent.

The past year was a relatively good year for Colgate-Palmolive investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in Colgate-Palmolive. The stock gained around 0 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a profitable period for the investors. The stock rose on average 43 percent. Colgate-Palmolive's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite similar and moved between 17,09 billion dollars and 16,03 billion dollars. During 2011 and 2015 Colgate-Palmolive's net results were quiet stable and fluctuated between 2,55 billion dollars and 1,55 billion dollars.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average the Colgate-Palmolive stock yielded a delivered a dividend yield of around 6,61 percent over the past 5 years. Colgate-Palmolive raised it's dividends per share each year in the past 5 years. So we could call Colgate-Palmolive a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Healthy financed: not so much debt Colgate-Palmolive

Last year the balance sheet of the American company was worth 11,96 billion dollars. Of the total balance sheet 12,26 billion dollars (102,5 percent) was financed by debt. Last year the household company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 30. So the investors valued the stock at 30 times 2015' earnings per share. Many analysts say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the household company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 57,96 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 892,74 million stocks listed on the exchanges.

All the company's financial reports are available here. More information about Colgate-Palmolive can be found it's website. .