Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE:CL) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, March 26, with the stock price up by 2.72% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $92.03.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $89.59, falling within a range of $89.605 and $92.27. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.392 whereas the PE ratio was 26.20 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $109.30, and the low was $85.32. On the whole, CL has fluctuated by -0.28% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Colgate-Palmolive Co currently standing at about $74.69 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-30. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.00, with its dividend yield at 2.17%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 20.08B, with a low estimate of 4.78B and a high estimate of 5B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 4.92B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 4.19, with the price of CL currently trading nearly 0.39% and 2.80% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 54.14, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.99% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.38%. Furthermore, Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL)’s beta value is 0.42, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.06.
A comparison of Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CL showed an intraday change of 2.72% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 3.17%%.
Data on historical trading for Colgate-Palmolive Co (NYSE:CL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 5.99 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 5.10 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 812.57 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.16% of Colgate-Palmolive Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 85.68% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 10.67 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 1.97. According to the data, the short interest in Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) stood at 132.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 9.04 million. The stock has risen by 1.23% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CL stock heading into the next quarter.
