How Colgate-Palmolive makes money

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FY2025

How does Colgate-Palmolive make money? This Sankey traces every dollar of revenue through the income statement — into cost of revenue, R&D, SG&A, and taxes — and shows what's left as profit. Pick any fiscal year, recent quarter, or the trailing twelve months. Straight from SEC filings.

Colgate-Palmolive Company · FY2025 · year ended 2025-12-31

Revenue$20.4BGross profit$12.3B · 60%Cost of revenue$8.1B · 40%Operating income$3.3B · 16%Operating expenses$8.9B · 44%R&D$366M · 2%SG&A$7.9B · 39%Other opex$676M · 3%Pre-tax income$2.9B · 14%Other expense$376M · 2%Net income$2.1B · 10%Income tax$798M · 4%

Each fiscal year from SEC filings. Percentages are share of revenue, so the green profit nodes read directly as gross / operating / net margin. Line items a company doesn't break out are derived from their siblings so the flows balance; small residuals show as “Other.” For informational purposes only.