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# Colgate-Palmolive: Business Model & Revenue Engine



## Direct Answer

Colgate-Palmolive reports revenue across 2 business segments in its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K. Oral Personal and Home Care is the largest, with $15.8 billion of revenue (77% of the total), followed by Pet Nutrition at $4.6 billion (23%).

## How Does Colgate-Palmolive Make Money?

Oral Personal and Home Care supplies 77% of revenue, so Colgate-Palmolive's results move mostly with that one business; the others matter more for diversification than for the headline number. Between fiscal 2024 and 2025, Pet Nutrition grew fastest (+2.9%) and Oral Personal and Home Care slowest (+1.0%), so the revenue mix tilts toward Pet Nutrition while that gap lasts.

| Segment | FY2025 revenue | FY2024 revenue | Share of revenue | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oral Personal and Home Care | $15.8 billion | $15.6 billion | 77.4% | 1.0% |
| Pet Nutrition | $4.6 billion | $4.5 billion | 22.6% | 2.9% |

![Bar chart of Colgate-Palmolive revenue by segment for fiscal 2025: Oral Personal and Home Care 77.4%, Pet Nutrition 22.6%.](https://www.getswoopr.com/images/charts/colgate-palmolive-business-model-segment-mix.webp)
*Colgate-Palmolive revenue by segment as a share of total revenue, from the table above. The largest is highlighted. Select the chart to open it full size.*

## Which Colgate-Palmolive Segments Earn the Most?

| Segment | FY2025 segment operating income | Segment margin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Oral Personal and Home Care | $4.0 billion | 25.1% |
| Pet Nutrition | $1.1 billion | 23.1% |

Segment operating income is the profit measure Colgate-Palmolive reports to its chief operating decision maker for each segment. It usually leaves out corporate costs that are not allocated to a segment, so the segments usually add up to more than consolidated operating income, and margins are comparable within Colgate-Palmolive more safely than against another company.

## What the Segment Figures Do Not Show

The rows above add up to 100% of Colgate-Palmolive's reported revenue for fiscal 2025; the difference is intersegment eliminations, corporate revenue or items the company reports outside its segments. Segment definitions are management's choice and change when a company reorganizes, in which case it restates prior years in the next filing, so a multi-year comparison should use the figures from a single filing. Revenue shows where sales come from, not where profit or cash is earned: a small segment can carry most of the margin.

## Where These Numbers Come From

Every figure on this page is a value Colgate-Palmolive reported in the segment note and revenue disclosures of its Form 10-K filed February 23, 2026 (accession 0000021665-26-000006), read from the SEC's Financial Statement Data Sets. The prior-year column is the comparative figure from that same filing, so it reflects any restatement for a change in segments. Category names are the company's own XBRL labels, lightly reformatted for reading.

Rows that only total other rows (for example a "Products" line beside the individual products) are left out so nothing is counted twice. This page is educational and describes reported history for fiscal 2025; it is not a forecast or a recommendation.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What are Colgate-Palmolive's business segments?

In its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, Colgate-Palmolive reports revenue for Oral Personal and Home Care and Pet Nutrition.

### Which part of Colgate-Palmolive brings in the most revenue?

Oral Personal and Home Care, with $15.8 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025, or 77% of the total.

### Where does Colgate-Palmolive report its segment results?

In the segment note to the financial statements in its Form 10-K, most recently filed February 23, 2026, alongside management's discussion of each segment's results.

## References

- [SEC EDGAR: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO Form 10-K filed February 23, 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000002166526000006/cl-20251231.htm)
- [SEC EDGAR: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO annual and quarterly filings](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=21665&type=10-K)
- [SEC: EDGAR application programming interfaces (XBRL frames and submissions data)](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces)
- [SEC: Financial Statement Data Sets](https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/financial-statement-data-sets)

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