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Equity Capital Markets

Colgate Palmolive Co / Equity Capital Markets

<ul><li>Colgate-Palmolive delivered a mixed quarterly result to end 2021 but its overall performance was not too bad.</li><li>The management’s focus on productivity, pricing, premiumization, and innovation allowed the company to navigate through a challenging operating environment.</li><li>The management’s investments in R&D and marketing are meant to accelerate the introduction of premium innovation to drive profitability and mix.</li></ul>

Colgate-Palmolive delivered a mixed quarterly result to end 2021 but its overall performance was not too bad.The management’s focus on productivity, pricing, premiumization, and innovation allowed the company to navigate through a challenging operating environment.The management’s investments in R&D and marketing are meant to accelerate the introduction of premium innovation to drive profitability and mix.

Colgate-Palmolive: Financial & Price Forecasts

House of Market Insights, Market Radar

Market Radar

House of Market Insights

Quick market updates and lot of ideas for your investments from a multi-asset portfolio manager working for a family office.

Quick Market Updates

Technical Analysis

Advanced Micro Devices / Technical Analysis

<ul><li>The Chinese Government has not been very friendly with the Chinese tech companies in the last year: it imposed several fines and introduced new anti-monopoly laws, that hurt company business and profitability</li><li>Now the SEC is trying to look better into the balance sheet of these companies, threatening a possible delisting from U.S. exchanges. This is another big risk for chinese tech stocks.</li><li>An almost 70% drawdown already happened. Will there ever be a reversal?</li></ul>

The Chinese Government has not been very friendly with the Chinese tech companies in the last year: it imposed several fines and introduced new anti-monopoly laws, that hurt company business and profitabilityNow the SEC is trying to look better into the balance sheet of these companies, threatening a possible delisting from U.S. exchanges. This is another big risk for chinese tech stocks.An almost 70% drawdown already happened. Will there ever be a reversal?

Equity Long-Short Analyst

Pyari Menon

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul>
<li>Procter &amp; Gamble Co (PG US), Amorepacific Corp (090430 KS), L'Oreal SA (OR FP), <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-household-health-care" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6501:1" rel="noopener">LG Household &amp; Health Care (051900 KS)</a>,  and Kao Corp (4452 JP), lead product innovation table</li>
<li>Among the smaller names <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/cosmax-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4491:1" rel="noopener">Cosmax Inc (192820 KS)</a>, Pola Orbis Holdings (4927 JP),  <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kolmar-bnh-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33240:1" rel="noopener">Kolmar BNH (200130 KS)</a>, have been relatively prolific in innovating over the last three years.</li>
<li>Apart from the quality of the ingredients, consistency, stability of the formulations, the packaging, dispensing, virtual try-on, personalized recommendations, sustainability seem to be some of the key trends in innovations.</li>
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Procter &amp; Gamble Co (PG US), Amorepacific Corp (090430 KS), L'Oreal SA (OR FP), LG Household &amp; Health Care (051900 KS),  and Kao Corp (4452 JP), lead product innovation table
Among the smaller names Cosmax Inc (192820 KS), Pola Orbis Holdings (4927 JP),  Kolmar BNH (200130 KS), have been relatively prolific in innovating over the last three years.
Apart from the quality of the ingredients, consistency, stability of the formulations, the packaging, dispensing, virtual try-on, personalized recommendations, sustainability seem to be some of the key trends in innovations.


Insights from Datamining Technical Publications - Cosmetics

<ul><li>Despite the volatility that Colgate-Palmolive has experienced in their business lines, the company’s stock price has been more or less rangebound.</li><li>Colgate-Palmolive had to resort to increased pricing to combat inflation but its volumes grew as well, both, sequentially and on a two-year basis.</li><li>Oral Care organic sales increased by the mid-single digits in Q3 compared to the previous quarter and are up by the high-single digits year-to-date.</li></ul>

Despite the volatility that Colgate-Palmolive has experienced in their business lines, the company’s stock price has been more or less rangebound.Colgate-Palmolive had to resort to increased pricing to combat inflation but its volumes grew as well, both, sequentially and on a two-year basis.Oral Care organic sales increased by the mid-single digits in Q3 compared to the previous quarter and are up by the high-single digits year-to-date.

Colgate-Palmolive: A Stable Consumer Goods Play (12/2021)

Value Investing

Vladimir Dimitrov, CFA

Equity Bottom-Up

Reckitt Benckiser Group  / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Reckitt Benckiser has been one of the worst performers in the large cap household &amp; personal products space.</li>
<li>Past mistakes in strategic capital allocation are still lingering over the business, while debt levels will likely require more divestments.</li>
<li>The business, however, is in a good position to regain shareholders' trust and its leading position in the industry.</li>
</ul>


Reckitt Benckiser has been one of the worst performers in the large cap household &amp; personal products space.
Past mistakes in strategic capital allocation are still lingering over the business, while debt levels will likely require more divestments.
The business, however, is in a good position to regain shareholders' trust and its leading position in the industry.


Reckitt Benckiser - Still Paying For Past Mistakes

United States

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a consumer products company that markets its products throughout the world.  The Company's products include toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoos, deodorants, bar and liquid soaps, dishwashing liquid, and laundry products, as well as pet nutrition products for cats and dogs.

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Colgate-Palmolive: Financial & Price Forecasts

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Charts to Watch

The Chinese Government has not been very friendly with the Chinese tech companies in the last year: it imposed several fines and introduced new...

Market Radar

Insights from Datamining Technical Publications - Cosmetics

The beauty industry - where innovation can be real and driven by science, but sometimes just cosmetic to just change the perception

Pyari Menon

Colgate-Palmolive: A Stable Consumer Goods Play (12/2021)

Despite the volatility that Colgate-Palmolive has experienced in their business lines, the company’s stock price has been more or less...

Baptista Research

Reckitt Benckiser - Still Paying For Past Mistakes

Reckitt Benckiser has been one of the worst performers in the large cap household & personal products space. Past mistakes in strategic...

Vladimir Dimitrov, CFA

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