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Colgate-Palmolive just posted its Q3 2026 scorecard and the stock did not shrug. Shares closed at US$95.29, up 2.3% on the day, as investors rushed to price in what looked like a clean set of numbers. The real story sits in earnings power.

Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) has appointed Akash Parekh as Executive Vice President, Marketing, for Colgate-Palmolive India. He succeeds long-serving executive Gunjit Jain, who has left the business after an extended tenure in senior marketing roles.

Cost-cutting programs and pricing discipline are shielding margins from commodity inflation, a structural advantage for long-term compounding.

Pricing and productivity offset commodity inflation as organic sales grew 3.6%.

CL's Q3 earnings and sales beat estimates, fueled by organic growth, pricing gains and productivity efforts, prompting a higher 2026 profitability outlook.

Colgate-Palmolive (CL) raised its full-year earnings growth outlook on Friday as the consumer produc

Consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) reported Q3 2026 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, with revenue up 4.6% year on year to $5.37 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.97 per share was 4.8% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

The headline numbers for Colgate-Palmolive (CL) give insight into how the company performed in the quarter ended September 2026, but it may be worthwhile to compare some of its key metrics to Wall Street estimates and the year-ago actuals.

Investing.com - Colgate-Palmolive net sales rose by 4.6% in the third quarter to $5.37 billion, compared to Bloomberg consensus estimates of $5.34 billion.