Boring works. Over a market cycle, essential-service businesses tend to keep selling toothpaste, chips, and industrial adhesives regardless of what the S&P 500 is doing on any given afternoon.
Two of the market's most reliable dividend payers just cut checks to shareholders within days of each other. Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG | PG Price Prediction) paid $1.0885 per share on August 17, 2026, while Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) paid $0.
CL raised its 2026 profit outlook after a Q2 earnings beat and 140-basis-point margin gain, while higher costs and North America remain risks.
CL enters the second half with better volumes, resilient margins and a higher earnings outlook, but rich valuation and U.S. weakness temper the upside.
CL slips below its 50-day SMA as U.S. softness, competition and rising costs weigh despite solid Q2 growth and global momentum.
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CL's Q2 earnings beat as organic sales, productivity and margin gains offset higher brand investment, while Latin America led regional growth.
Colgate-Palmolive NYSE: CL said its second-quarter 2026 results reflected broad-based organic sales growth, gross-margin expansion and higher advertising spending, while executives outlined steps to improve performance in North America amid softer category trends and elevated competition.
Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Although the revenue and EPS for Colgate-Palmolive (CL) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended June 2026, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.