Colgate Palmolive Co. (CL) dividend — yield, history and cover

The dividend

Colgate Palmolive Co. pays its shareholders every quarter.

Yield

2.44%

Paid out each year as a share of the share price

Per share, per year

$2.10

$0.53 every quarter

Years of increases

At least 9

Every year we hold — the real record may be far longer

Share of profits

83%

Of earnings, paid out rather than kept

Recent payments

Jul 20, 2026$0.53
Apr 20, 2026$0.53
Jan 21, 2026$0.52
Oct 17, 2025$0.52
Jul 18, 2025$0.52
Apr 17, 2025$0.52
Jan 21, 2025$0.50
Oct 18, 2024$0.50
Jul 19, 2024$0.50
Apr 19, 2024$0.50
Jan 19, 2024$0.48
Oct 20, 2023$0.48
Jul 20, 2023$0.48
Apr 20, 2023$0.48
Jan 20, 2023$0.47
Oct 20, 2022$0.47
Jul 20, 2022$0.47
Apr 20, 2022$0.47
Jan 21, 2022$0.45
Oct 20, 2021$0.45
Jul 20, 2021$0.45
Apr 20, 2021$0.45
Jan 22, 2021$0.44
Oct 22, 2020$0.44

Dated by ex-dividend day — the day you must already own the shares to be paid.

A dividend is not a promise. Companies cut them, and a high yield is often a share price that has fallen rather than a payment that has risen. This describes what has been paid, not what will be.

Payments come from the corporate-actions record rather than from the filings. The XBRL tag for dividends covers only about a fifth of filers and arrives in a zoo of units, so the actual per-share cash — dated, with one-off specials flagged — is the more reliable source. The filings still answer whether earnings cover the payment.

The annual figure is the last 4 regular payments, not a rolling 365 days. A year-long window catches three payments or five depending on where its boundary lands — Exxon’s misses an August ex-date by two days and understates the yield by a quarter — so the count is what is summed, and a partial set publishes nothing rather than a low number.