Is it safe?
Can CL take a bad year?
Colgate-Palmolive carries $6.45B of net debt at 1.71× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$6.45B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.71×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.22× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 6.88
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 12.3×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $7.82B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.37B
- Net debt
- $6.45B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.77B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.13B
- Debt / equity
- 33.1×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.07×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 22%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −29%
- Below its 52-week high
- −6.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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