Dividends

CLColgate-Palmolive

StockNYSEUnited StatesConsumer staplesEU retail investors: available

+1.4% today · +27.3% over a year

8/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 81% of the instruments we score

Quality, Stability: among the best of its peers; priced higher than most peers (P/E 37.9). Dividend yield 2.69%.

Colgate-Palmolive (CL) dividends: trailing yield 2.69%, Dividend Safety 56/100, 5-year growth 3.3% a year.

Trailing 12-month yieldA high yield can signal risk rather than safety: payouts may be cut, and part of a fund's distribution may be your own capital returned.
2.69%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
2.16%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$2.63
Payments per year
4
Dividend safety0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
56 / 100
Borderline

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
2.69% → 2.21%
Forward
2.16% → 1.78%

Of every 100 paid out

Withheld at source (United States)
15.00%
Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
0.00%
Cyprus GeSY health contribution
2.65%
You keep
82.35%
  • Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
  • US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
  • GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.

Cyprus resident, domiciled: 2.21%

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Next payment

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Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+3.3%
Years without a lower dividend
0
Years without a cut of over 10 %
0
Payout ratio (earnings)
103%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
48%

Annual total matches the company's SEC filing

Caution. Dividends grew 5+ points a year faster than earnings over five years and the payout is above 75 %. More in the glossary →Dividends grew 5+ points a year faster than earnings over five years and the payout is above 75 %.

Dividends per share by year

Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.

Dividends per share by year: 2017 $1.59, 2018 $1.66, 2019 $1.71, 2020 $1.75, 2021 $1.79, 2022 $1.86, 2023 $1.91, 2024 $1.98, 2025 $2.582017: $1.592018: $1.662019: $1.712020: $1.752021: $1.792022: $1.862023: $1.912024: $1.982025: $2.58

Payment history

Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.

Status
20 Oct 202613 Nov 2026$0.53RegularVerified3
20 Jul 202617 Aug 2026$0.53RegularVerified3
20 Apr 202618 May 2026$0.53RegularVerified3
21 Jan 202616 Feb 2026$0.52RegularVerified3

Each payment is checked against up to 3 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.

What dividend safety is made of

0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.

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