MEDIUMBuilt-inProduct / Revenue mix
44%
Oral Care
“10-K Item 1: 'Sales of Oral, Personal and Home Care products accounted for 44%, 17% and 16%, respectively, of our total worldwide Net sales in 2025.'”
CL · Concentration risk · 10-K extracted
Colgate-Palmolive (CL) concentration risks
Updated
The most significant concentration Colgate-Palmolive discloses is Oral Care at 44%, classified MEDIUM by disclosed size. Below: the full set from the latest 10-K — verbatim quotes, filing references, and a synthesis of what these exposures mean together.
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Source: Colgate-Palmolive’s SEC Form 10-K filed — view the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
At a glance
Disclosed-size breakdown · 3 disclosed concentrations
HIGH0
MEDIUM2
LOW1
Disclosed concentrations
Each card carries a disclosed-size chip (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — how large the exposure is as a share of revenue, not how dangerous it is) and a nature tag: Built-in(the company’s own model, geography, or products) or Outside party (an external customer, supplier, or distributor it relies on).
MEDIUMOutside partySupplier
single-source suppliers
“10-K Item 1: 'We do, however, purchase certain key raw and packaging materials from single-source suppliers or a limited number of suppliers'”
LOWOutside partyCustomer
11%
Walmart
“10-K Item 1: 'Our sales to Walmart, Inc. and its affiliates represented approximately 11% of our Net sales in 2025.'”
TrendMatrix Research · concentration synthesis
What these concentrations mean together
updated 2026-06-24The company's disclosed concentration profile is narrow and consists of three well-separated dimensions: a product-category skew, a supplier vulnerability, and a modest single-customer dependency. Oral Care accounted for 44% of total worldwide net sales in 2025 — a medium-share structural concentration reflecting the company's historical brand positioning; this is durable in character, moving with category demand rather than any specific customer or counterparty relationship. The company also purchases certain key raw and packaging materials from single-source suppliers or a limited number of suppliers — a medium-share dependency concentration that introduces supply-chain fragility at the input level, where disruption to a sole-source relationship could affect production continuity for affected product lines. At the customer level, Walmart and its affiliates represented approximately 11% of net sales in 2025 — a low share by disclosed size, making it the smallest of the three disclosed exposures on a relative basis. The low-share character reflects the company's genuinely diversified retail and international channel base; even the largest single customer accounts for a modest slice of global revenues. Taken together, the profile is that of a well-diversified consumer staples company with a category skew toward Oral Care, a moderate supply-side dependency on sole-source inputs for certain products, and limited customer concentration. None of these individually is likely to move the investment verdict, though the sole-source supplier dependency is the one idiosyncratic risk that could create operational disruption without being driven by broader market forces.
For the engine’s reasoning on CL’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.
Industry peers · Household & Personal Products
Peer concentration profile
| Symbol | Name | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHD | Church & Dwight Company, Inc. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| CLX | Clorox Company (The) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| ELF | e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| COTY | Coty Inc. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| CL● | Colgate-Palmolive Company | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| EL | Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. (T | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Concentration counts reflect items disclosed in each peer’s most recent 10-K; disclosed-size classification uses TrendMatrix’s internal 10-K extraction taxonomy.