colgatepalmolive stock is sliding friday the consumerproducts giant posted a strong fourth quarter but that was overshadowed by the outlook that organic growth would revert to a longterm target from a surging 2022 colgate ticker cl earned 77 cents per share on sales of 46 billion while analysts had expected earnings of 76 cents on sales of 459 billion according to factset the company earned 297 a share on sales of 1797 billion