---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000021665-25-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CL"
cik: "0000021665"
company_name: "COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO"
filed_at: "2025-08-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T21:58:38.004235+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Colgate Q2 EPS $0.91, organic sales +1.8%; approves $200-300M productivity plan

## Summary
- Net sales $5,110M (+1.0%); organic sales +1.8% including -0.6% from lower private label pet sales.
- GAAP EPS $0.91 (+2%); Base Business EPS $0.92 (+1%); gross margin 60.1% (-70bps base business).
- Global toothpaste market share 41.1% YTD; manual toothbrushes 32.4% YTD.
- Net cash from operations $1,484M for first six months of 2025.
- Board approved three-year productivity program; estimated pre-tax charges of $200-300M by Dec 31, 2028.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000021665-25-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CL
- cik: 0000021665
- company_name: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
- filed_at: 2025-08-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 2.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000002166525000040/0000021665-25-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000002166525000040/cl-20250731.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000021665-25-000040
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000021665-25-000040.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000021665-25-000040.txt

## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO announced a restructuring with charges of between $200 and $300 million affecting Corporate segment.
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: between $200 and $300 million
  - Affected area: Corporate segment
  source text: The Productivity Program is projected to result in cumulative pre-tax charges, once all initiatives are approved and implemented, totaling between $200 and $300 million over the course of the three-year program.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000002166525000040/0000021665-25-000040-index.htm

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