Q2 2024 Colgate-Palmolive Co Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) reported strong Q2 results with balanced organic sales growth across all six divisions and four categories.
- The company achieved mid-single-digit volume growth, including notable performance from Hill's and Holly and Hazel brands.
- Gross margins are expanding, driving incremental gross profit to fund brand investments and capabilities while delivering bottom-line growth.
- Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) is leveraging data and analytics tools, including AI, to optimize the return on increased marketing spending.
- The company is well-positioned to drive consistent, balanced top-line growth and top-tier total shareholder return (TSR).
- The company faces a more promotional environment in North America, which could impact pricing and margins.
- There are concerns about the sustainability of volume growth given the competitive landscape and potential shifts in consumer behavior.
- Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL) anticipates some raw material inflation and transactional FX impacts in the second half of the year.
- The Latin American market, while strong, showed some signs of slowing in Mexico, which could affect overall regional performance.
- Foreign exchange fluctuations, particularly in Latin American currencies, pose a risk to financial performance.
Good morning. Welcome to today's Colgate-Palmolive second quarter 2024 earnings conference call. This call is being recorded and is being simulcast live, www.colgate-palmolive.com.
Now for opening remarks, I'd like to turn this call over to Chief Investor Relations Officer and Executive Vice Presidents and a John for Shay.
Thanks, Rob. Good morning and welcome to our second quarter 2024 earnings release conference call. This is John Faucher. Today's conference call will include forward-looking statements and actual results could differ materially from these statements. Please refer to the second quarter 2024 earnings press release and related prepared materials and our most recent filings with the SEC, including our 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent SEC filings all available on Colgate's website for a discussion of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially
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