Colgate-Palmolive: sales disappoint in 4th quarter

(CercleFinance.com) - On Friday, Colgate-Palmolive reported quarterly earnings slightly ahead of Wall Street estimates, but sales disappointed expectations.


The world's leading toothpaste manufacturer reported net income, group share, of $739 million, or 90 cents per share, compared with $718 million (87 cents) a year earlier.

Excluding exceptional items, EPS came to 91 cents, against a consensus target of 90 cents.

Sales fell by 0.1% to $4.94 billion, compared with a consensus of over $5 billion.

Organic growth, adjusted for acquisitions, disposals and currency effects, reached 4.3%, driven by volume growth of 2.5% and price increases of 1.8%.

Currency effects, however, penalized sales by 4.4%, Colgate said.

The New York-based group's quarterly gross margin improved by 0.7 percentage points to 60.3%.

Following this publication, the share was expected to fall by 2.7% on Friday at the opening of Wall Street.

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