CL Stock Ownership Breakdown

A company's 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides investors with comprehensive information about institutional ownership in a listed company, a sign of strength in terms of how many institutions have confidence in that company. The number of institutional investors who currently own CL shares is 2494, representing 85.67% of the company's common stock.

WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in CL by -3.01% restricting it's holding to 27.82 million shares of worth nearly $2.51B. BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP also lessened -2.84% of the CL shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 6.2 million shares of worth $558.24M. CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM also shunned CL shares holding by -3.44% last quarter which brought its holding to 4.81 million shares worth $432.73M.

As per its latest 13F filing, SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP increased its stake in CL by 8.59% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 2.71 million shares having worth more than $243.60M. PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ also added 27.8% more shares of CL to its portfolio, raising its holding to 41.07 million shares of worth $3.70B. ROYAL BANK OF CANADA also increased its CL shares holding by 18.69% which brought its holding to 4.55 million shares worth $409.49M.

The insider with the most stakes in CL is Wallace Noel R. , Chairman, President & CEO at the company. Additionally, CL stock is highly held by Chief Technology Officer Verduin Patricia and CLO and Secretary Daniels Jennifer among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.12% percent of Colgate-Palmolive Company's stock. Within the last six months, there have been 12 transaction(s) in which CL insiders have sold stock, totaling 280.1K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include MALCOLM GREGORY, WALLACE NOEL R., and SUTULA STANLEY J III.

There have been 0 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Colgate-Palmolive Company insiders have bought stock, totalling 0 shares

Around 512.22K Colgate-Palmolive Company shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.12% of CL stock.

CL Chairman, President & CEO, Wallace Noel R. holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. CL shares owned by Wallace total nearly 270.69 thousand.

SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP is the largest institutional owner in CL which holds 2.71 million shares worth $243.60M or 0.33% of the total CL shares outstanding followed by PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ with ownership of 41.07 million shares representing 4.99% of the CL ownership. WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP is the third largest stakeholder with 27.82 million shares or 3.38% of the ownership worth more than $2.51B.

Stock options give the owner the ability but not the obligation to buy or sell a security at a predetermined price and date. Stock options can be classified into two types: puts and calls. A put is a bet on falling stock, and a call is a bet on rising stock. As far as the CL is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of CL shares short is 9.24M. Shares short is a market sentiment in which investors have sold their shares short in a given stock but have not yet covered them or closed them out.

As of today, 817.01M shares of CL are outstanding.

Float represents the number of tradeable shares in a specific stock. By subtracting restricted and closely-held shares from a firm's total outstanding shares, we can calculate its floating stock. The term "closely-held shares" refers to shares held by employees, major shareholders, and company insiders. At present, CL has 768.58M shares in float.

Short ratio is calculated by dividing the number of short shares, short interest or bets that shareholders will sell short from the average daily volume. A higher ratio indicates longer times needed to repurchase borrowed shares (sold). The short ratio for CL is 2.14.