secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO (CL)
CIK:        0000021665
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001157523-22-000958
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Colgate-Palmolive Q2 EPS falls 13% to $0.72; organic sales up 9%, guidance raised to 5-7%
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- Net sales $4.48B, up 5.5% YoY; organic sales growth 9.0% with gains in all divisions and categories.
- GAAP EPS $0.72 (down 13%); base business EPS $0.72 (down 10%) on 300 bps gross margin compression to 57.0%.
- Global toothpaste market share 39.6%; manual toothbrush share 31.3% year-to-date.
- Full-year 2022 organic sales growth guidance raised to 5%–7% from prior 4%–6%.
- Operating cash flow $914M for first six months of 2022.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000115752322000958/0001157523-22-000958-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000115752322000958/a52794658.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-22-000958

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