---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000021665-25-000052"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CL"
cik: "0000021665"
company_name: "COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO"
filed_at: "2025-10-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T01:09:57.132175+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Colgate-Palmolive Q3 net sales up 2% to $5.13B, EPS $0.91; announces $200-300M restructuring program

## Summary
- Net sales $5.13B (+2% YoY); organic sales +0.4% reflecting exit of non-strategic pet business.
- GAAP EPS $0.91 (+1%); Base Business EPS flat; gross margin decreased 170 bps to 59.4%.
- Updated FY2025 organic sales growth guidance; maintained EPS guidance.
- New productivity program: $200-300M pre-tax charges (65-75% severance), substantially all incurred by Dec 2028.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000021665-25-000052
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CL
- cik: 0000021665
- company_name: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
- filed_at: 2025-10-31T23:59:59+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/21665/000002166525000052/0000021665-25-000052-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000002166525000052/cl-20251031.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000021665-25-000052
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000021665-25-000052.txt

## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO announced a restructuring with charges of $200 and $300 million affecting North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa/Eurasia, Hill's Pet Nutrition, Corporate.
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: $200 and $300 million
  - Affected area: North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa/Eurasia, Hill's Pet Nutrition, Corporate
  source text: the Company’s Board of Directors approved a new three-year productivity program to drive future growth and support the Company’s 2030 strategy (the “Strategic Growth and Productivity Program”). The program includes initiatives to better align the Company’s organizational structure to support its strategic initiatives, optimize the Company’s global supply chain to drive agility and efficiencies and simplify and streamline its organizational structure to reduce overhead costs. The Strategic Growth and Productivity Program is estimated to result in cumulative pre-tax charges, once all initiatives are approved and implemented, totaling between $200 and $300 million
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000002166525000052/0000021665-25-000052-index.htm

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