Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning. Welcome to today's Colgate Palmolive 2025 fourth quarter and year-end earnings conference call. This call is being recorded and is being simulcast live at www.colgatepalmolive.com. Now, for opening remarks, I'd like to turn this call over to Chief Investor Relations Officer and Executive Vice President, M&A, John Fauché. Thanks, Betsy. Good morning and welcome to our fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings release conference call. This is John Cochet. Today's conference call will include forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from these statements. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties and are made on the basis of our views and assumptions at this time. Please refer to the earnings press release and our most recent filings with the SEC, including our 2024 annual report on Form 10-K, and subsequent SEC filings, all available on our website, for discussion of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements. These remarks also include a discussion of non-GAAP financial measures, which exclude certain items from reported results, including those identified in Tables 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the fourth quarter earnings press release. Full reconciliation to the corresponding GAAP financial measures and related definitions are included in the earnings press release, which is available on our website. Joining me on the call this morning are Noel Wallace, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, and Stan Satula, Chief Financial Officer. Noel will provide you with his thoughts on our results and our 2026 outlook. We will then open it up for Q&A. Noel? Thanks, and good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us today as we discuss our stronger than expected...