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Colgate-Palmolive

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Colgate-Palmolive has retired 31.0% of its shares since 1999, from 1,155,715,088 to 797,172,829.

31.0%retired since 1999
5.4%last 5 years
1.1%last 12 months
797Mshares today
Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings
a quarter gone 20171.2B shares, 1999797M200020052010201520202025
1999, 1,155,715,0882026-06-30, 797,172,829
A share bought in 1999
1.4× more of Colgate-Palmolive today, without buying another share. It was one of 1,155,715,088 shares then. It is one of 797,172,829 now.
Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted
Fiscal yearDateShares outstandingFiling
19992000-02-291,155,715,08810-K405cover page
20002001-02-281,127,261,39210-K405cover page
20012002-02-281,097,948,13610-Kcover page
20022003-02-281,074,543,26610-Kcover page
20032004-02-291,065,220,30210-Kcover page
20042005-01-311,050,429,83010-Kcover page
20052006-01-311,030,712,77010-Kcover page
20062007-01-311,026,827,59010-Kcover page
20072007-12-311,018,069,60210-K
20082008-12-311,002,825,16010-K
20092009-12-31988,330,03410-K
20102010-12-31987,494,35810-K
20112012-01-31959,155,18010-K
20122013-01-31935,393,42210-K
20132014-01-31918,943,63710-K
20142015-01-31907,081,76210-K
20152016-01-31892,738,51610-K
20162017-01-31882,856,72110-K
20172018-01-31875,326,73610-K/A
20182019-01-31861,676,49410-K
20192020-01-31855,029,77710-K
20202021-01-31848,562,67810-K
20212022-01-31840,487,22210-K
20222023-01-31830,378,79010-K
20232024-01-31823,150,91910-K
20242025-01-31811,536,43710-K
20252026-01-31801,548,02810-K

Source: all 10-K filings of Colgate-Palmolive on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.

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Colgate-Palmolive buybacks, answered

Is Colgate-Palmolive buying back its stock?

Yes. Colgate-Palmolive has 1.1% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 797,172,829 as of June 30, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 5.4%.

How many shares has Colgate-Palmolive bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Colgate-Palmolive has 358.5 million fewer shares than at its 1999 peak. That is 31.0% of the company. Since fiscal 2007 alone it bought back about 436.4 million shares, while the count fell by 220.9 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.

How many shares does Colgate-Palmolive have outstanding?

797,172,829 shares, as of June 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 1999 peak it had 1,155,715,088.

What do Colgate-Palmolive's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Colgate-Palmolive stock in 1999 owns 1.4 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.

How does Colgate-Palmolive compare with other cannibal stocks?

Colgate-Palmolive ranks No. 168 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Vistra (31.2%), Corebridge Financial (31.2%), Ziff Davis (30.9%), Alaska Air Group (30.8%).

Every answer is computed from Colgate-Palmolive's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.

Superinvestors who own it

First EagleFirst Eagle Investment Management16,411,398 shares, $1.5B, Q2 2026
Jensen InvestmentJensen Investment Management115,229 shares, $10.6M, Q2 2026
Donald YacktmanYacktman Asset Management790,900 shares, $72.5M, Q2 2026

From the latest 13F filings. All superinvestors.

Insider buying, last 12 months

No open-market purchases reported in the last 12 months.

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