Investigating a stock’s 52-week price history, covering the range of low and high prices, can provide significant information about its present state and future potential. Colgate-Palmolive Co’s current trading price is -19.80% away from its 52-week high, while its distance from the 52-week low is 2.74%. The stock’s price range during this period has varied between $85.32 and $109.30. The company, active in the Consumer Defensive sector, saw a trading volume of around 4.2 million for the day, considerably lower average daily volume of 5.36 million observed over the last three months.
Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) has a current stock price of $87.66. During the previous trading session, the stock witnessed a notable rise, reaching a high of $110.0 after opening at $87.66. The stock’s low for the day was $84.18, and it eventually closed at $88.15.
The stock market performance of Colgate-Palmolive Co has been fairly unsteady. Over the last year, the company’s stock hit its highest at $109.30 on 09/05/24, while the lowest price during the same time frame was $85.32, recorded on 02/18/25.
How Financial Performance Impacts Market Capitalization
Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) has experienced a quarterly decline of -7.71% in its revenues when compared to the same period in the previous year. Presently, the company has a total market capitalization of 71.04B and boasts a workforce of 34000 employees.
Decoding Analysts’ Ratings for Colgate-Palmolive Co
As of right now, 7 analysts are rating Colgate-Palmolive Co as a BUY, 5 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 7 analysts are recommending to HOLD this stock, 1 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 1 analyst is rating the stock as SELL.
The Role of Moving Averages and Trading Volume in Technical Analysis
Based on Barchart.com data, the company’s moving average over the 100-day period was 91.34, with a change in price of -0.21. Similarly, Colgate-Palmolive Co recorded 5,454,333 in trading volume during the last 100 days, posting a change of -0.24%.
How CL’s Debt-to-Equity Ratio Affects Financial Health
A company’s financial condition and market reputation can be evaluated using the debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio. This ratio, calculated by dividing a company’s total liabilities by its shareholders’ equity, indicates the proportion of debt a company employs to back its assets in relation to its shareholders’ equity. At the time of writing, the total D/E ratio for CL stands at 22.78. Similarly, the long-term debt-to-equity ratio is also 18.10.
CL Stock Stochastic Average
As of today, the raw stochastic average of Colgate-Palmolive Co over the past 50 days is 9.93%. This is a increase compared to the raw stochastic average of the last 20 days, which was recorded at 8.29%. Additionally, the Stochastic %K and %D values for the company were 16.15% and 26.00%, respectively, over the past 20 days.
CL Stock Price Performance Analysis
A mixed performance in the stock price over the year has left investors unsure of what to expect, resulting in a range of outlooks from optimistic to pessimistic. The index has shown a price loss of -10.61% this year. Over the last six months, there has been a weaker performance of 0.64%. The price of CL leaped by -2.88% during the last 30 days period. For the last 5-days stocks have slided -4.28%.
