Colgate-Palmolive (India) Analysis

dividend

Pros

• Dividends per share have increased over the past 10 years.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s pays a higher dividend yield than the bottom 25% of dividend payers in India (0.76%).

Cons

• Dividends paid are not well covered by earnings (1.1x coverage).
• Dividends per share have been volatile in the past 10 years (annual drop of over 20%).
• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s dividend is below the markets top 25% of dividend payers in India (3.08%).

health

Pros

• Colgate-Palmolive (India) is able to meet its short term (1 year) commitments with its holdings of cash and other short term assets.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India) is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India) is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s cash and other short term assets cover its long term commitments.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India) has no debt, therefore coverage of interest payments is not a concern.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s level of debt (0%) compared to net worth is satisfactory (less than 40%).

Cons

• Operating cash flow is negative therefore debt is not well covered.
• Debt is not covered by short term assets, assets are -8.9019100212649E+16x debt.
• High level of physical assets or inventory.

management

Pros

• The tenure for the Colgate-Palmolive (India) management team is about average.

Cons

• The average tenure for the Colgate-Palmolive (India) board of directors is less than 3 years, this suggests a new board.

misc

Pros

Cons

• Colgate-Palmolive (India) is not covered by any analysts.

past

Pros

• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s year on year earnings growth rate has been positive over the past 5 years.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India) used its assets more efficiently than the IN Personal Products industry average last year based on Return on Assets.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India) made outstanding use of shareholders’ funds last year (Return on Equity greater than 40%).
• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s earnings growth has exceeded the IN Personal Products industry average in the past year (5.3% vs 1.1%).

Cons

• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s 1-year earnings growth is less than its 5-year average (5.3% vs 8.9%)
• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s use of capital deteriorated last year versus 3 years ago (Return on Capital Employed).

value

Pros

• COLPAL outperformed the Personal Products industry which returned -5.3% over the past year.
• COLPAL outperformed the Market in India which returned -14.5% over the past year.

Cons

• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a moderate discount (< 20%).
• Colgate-Palmolive (India)'s share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a substantial discount (< 40%).
• Colgate-Palmolive (India) is overvalued based on assets compared to the IN Personal Products industry average.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India) is overvalued based on earnings compared to the IN Personal Products industry average.
• Colgate-Palmolive (India) is overvalued based on earnings compared to the India market.
• NSEI:COLPAL is down -1.6% underperforming the Personal Products industry which returned 3.7% over the past month.
• NSEI:COLPAL is down -1.6% underperforming the market in India which returned 8% over the past month.