CL·Colgate-Palmolive Company

Realized volatility (21d)

15.1% 43rd pct

Below its peak

-19.6%

vs 200-day average

-0.6%

Up days (1y)

51%

Colgate-Palmolive Company is currently running 15.1% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against CL's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 43rd percentile — close to its own typical level, against a typical reading of 16.0%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.

CL is trading -19.6% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -15.8%, and the deepest was -25.3% in 2018. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began — and where past declines also continued.

Price sits -0.6% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 41st percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year CL closed higher on 51% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On September specifically: over 13 years of records, CL finished the month higher 4 of 13 times, with a median return of -1.4% and an average of -1.8%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +2.4% on average, its weakest September at -1.8%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.

Overnight risk is measurable too: CL has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 27 of 3,268 sessions (0.8% of the time), with the largest gaps running +4.7% and -6.4%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

Across the last 3 dated reports on file, CL moved an average of 1.9% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -0.8% and a largest of +2.9%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-09-19 and 2026-09-18, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against CL's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.