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Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>The fourth-quarter earnings of Colgate-Palmolive were decent and the company demonstrated impressive resilience in 2023, focusing on sustainable organic sales growth, rebuilding margins and strengthening cash flow performance amid an increasingly challenging operating environment.</li><li>However, some challenges persist, such as geopolitical unrest, foreign exchange headwinds and industry shifts, which might impact results in 2024.</li><li>Baptista Research looks to evaluate the different factors that could influence the company's price in the near future and attempts to carry out an independent valuation of the company using a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) methodology.</li></ul>

The fourth-quarter earnings of Colgate-Palmolive were decent and the company demonstrated impressive resilience in 2023, focusing on sustainable organic sales growth, rebuilding margins and strengthening cash flow performance amid an increasingly challenging operating environment.However, some challenges persist, such as geopolitical unrest, foreign exchange headwinds and industry shifts, which might impact results in 2024.Baptista Research looks to evaluate the different factors that could influence the company's price in the near future and attempts to carry out an independent valuation of the company using a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) methodology.

Colgate-Palmolive: What Is Its New Approach To Market Expansion & Its New Pricing Strategy? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Colgate-Palmolive Company delivered a positive result and managed an all-around beat in the last quarter, signaling a positive trajectory toward volume growth.</li><li>This operational flexibility empowered the company to deliver yet another quarter of double-digit operating profit growth, complemented by a substantial 23% surge in advertising expenditure.</li><li>In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.</li></ul>

Colgate-Palmolive Company delivered a positive result and managed an all-around beat in the last quarter, signaling a positive trajectory toward volume growth.This operational flexibility empowered the company to deliver yet another quarter of double-digit operating profit growth, complemented by a substantial 23% surge in advertising expenditure.In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.

Colgate-Palmolive Company: Focus On Science-Based Innovation As A Major Growth Catalyst! – Key Drivers

<ul><li>Colgate-Palmolive Company delivered a solid result and managed an all-around beat in the last quarter.</li><li>The company produced a decent performance in terms of organic sales growth.</li><li>In addition to increasing its gross margin, Colgate-Palmolive also increased its operating margin.</li></ul>

Colgate-Palmolive Company delivered a solid result and managed an all-around beat in the last quarter.The company produced a decent performance in terms of organic sales growth.In addition to increasing its gross margin, Colgate-Palmolive also increased its operating margin.

Value Investing

Vladimir Dimitrov, CFA

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<li>Colgate-Palmolive's share price performance over the past few years is not as grim as it might look on the surface.</li>
<li>Improving gross margin remains the only game in town for future shareholder returns, according to the company.</li>
<li>Colgate-Palmolive Company (<span class="ticker-hover-wrapper">NYSE:CL</span>) is rarely seen as an attractive investment opportunity as the company significantly underperformed the S&amp;P 500 and the consumer staples sector in particular over the past 5-year period.</li>
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Colgate-Palmolive's share price performance over the past few years is not as grim as it might look on the surface.
Improving gross margin remains the only game in town for future shareholder returns, according to the company.
Colgate-Palmolive Company (NYSE:CL) is rarely seen as an attractive investment opportunity as the company significantly underperformed the S&amp;P 500 and the consumer staples sector in particular over the past 5-year period.


<ul><li>Colgate-Palmolive had a good start to 2023, and delivered an all-around beat in the first quarter.</li><li>There was a boost in the company’s projections for net and organic sales growth as well as base business earnings per share growth for the year.</li><li>Colgate-Palmolive is facing headwinds with respect to its earnings per share growth given the impact of raw and packaging materials costs, foreign exchange, and below-the-line costs.</li></ul>

Colgate-Palmolive had a good start to 2023, and delivered an all-around beat in the first quarter.There was a boost in the company’s projections for net and organic sales growth as well as base business earnings per share growth for the year.Colgate-Palmolive is facing headwinds with respect to its earnings per share growth given the impact of raw and packaging materials costs, foreign exchange, and below-the-line costs.

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Colgate-Palmolive Company is a consumer products company that markets its products throughout the world.  The Company's products include toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoos, deodorants, bar and liquid soaps, dishwashing liquid, and laundry products, as well as pet nutrition products for cats and dogs.

Colgate Palmolive Co (CL US)

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