COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY vs Haleon plc, two Household Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Colgate-Palmolive sells oral and home care worldwide, banking 10.04% of sales as profit and yielding 5.09% in free cash. Haleon runs consumer-health brands like Sensodyne and Advil, wider at 15.23% margin but lighter on cash return at 3.53%. The market pays up for both, 35.66 times earnings for Colgate and 39.25 for Haleon, so neither is a bargain on price. Colgate hands shareholders a 2.26% dividend and trades at $74.1B; Haleon is larger at $83.0B. Haleon carries no net debt (d/e 0) and posts a 10.19% return on equity against its 3.98 times book. Two toothpaste-adjacent staples, close in size, both richly valued.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CL | HLN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $92.27 | $9.77 |
| Market cap | $74.3B | $87.8B |
| Sector | Household Products | Household Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +0.1% | +16.2% |
| P/E | 35.8 | 41.5 |
| P/B | 152.85 | 4.21 |
| P/S | 3.57 | 6.29 |
| EV/EBITDA | 21.1 | 24.5 |
| Revenue growth | +4.3% | +3.9% |
| Gross margin | 60.6% | 64.2% |
| Operating margin | 18.1% | 21.9% |
| Net margin | 10.0% | 15.2% |
| Return on equity | 429.6% | 10.2% |
| Return on assets | 12.6% | 5.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 28.9% | 11.4% |
| FCF yield | 5.1% | 3.3% |
| Dividend yield | 2.3% | — |
| Debt / equity | 16.33 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.02 | 0.92 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.48 | 4.34 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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