Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Colgate Palmolive share buybacks

$1.2B−30.4% · FY2025

Colgate Palmolive (CL) reported $1.2B in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, −30.4% year on year.

$1.8B2011$1.9B2012$1.5B2013$1.5B2014$1.6B2015$1.3B2016$1.4B2017$1.2B2018$1.2B2019$1.5B2020$1.3B2021$1.3B2022$1.1B2023$1.7B2024$1.2B2025
Colgate Palmolive — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$1.2B−30.4%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$1.7B+54.2%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$1.1B−13.8%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$1.3B−0.9%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$1.3B−10.6%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$1.5B+22.8%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$1.2B−2.9%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$1.2B−11.5%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$1.4B+4.8%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$1.3B−13.9%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$1.6B+1.4%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$1.5B+0.6%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$1.5B−21.7%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$1.9B+7.6%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$1.8B—Open →

Share buybacks — Share buybacks are the cash a company spent during the year repurchasing its own stock, taken from the financing section of the cash-flow statement. Most companies buy back nothing at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the minority that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth −2.8%

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Colgate Palmolive share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
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  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
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The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0000021665-26-000006 · February 23, 2026

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