The Unrelenting Pressures on Consumer Goods: A Cautionary Tale for Colgate Palmolive Colgate Palmolive's second quarter earnings report is set to drop on Friday, and investors are bracing themselves for a potentially mixed bag.
The company has consistently beaten earnings per share estimates in recent quarters, but its growth trajectory has been marred by widening margins and rising costs.
A closer look at Colgate's first quarter performance reveals a stark divergence between net sales growth and organic sales expansion. Net sales skyrocketed 8.