Kimberly-Clark Corporation
$109.31-0.8%YTD+8.9%1Y-12.3%
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What it does
Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.
Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data
Where Household & Personal Products sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $KMB.
Household & Personal Products
No material change from last week — inflation-weary consumers sustain spend on trusted daily-use brands (Colgate, Pepsi) while trading down in discretionary categories.
Industry benchmark
11-name peer basket
-3.1%YTD
-20.0%1Y
Fundamentals & catalyst
Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.
Key ratios
P/E
17.3How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.ROIC
15.4%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.Op margin
13.3%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.FCF yield
7.0%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).P/S
2.2Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.ROE
144%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.Gross margin
35.9%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.D/E
3.9Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.Past earnings
QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026Apr 28, 2026$1.97$1.93+2.1%
Q4 2025Jan 27, 2026$1.86$1.81+2.8%
Q3 2025Oct 30, 2025$1.82$1.75+4.0%
Q2 2025Aug 1, 2025$1.92$1.67+15.0%
Next earningsTue, Aug 4·consensus EPS $2.01
Quarterly trend
QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$4.2B-14.0%36.8%11.4%$2.00$321.0M
Q4 FY25$4.1B-17.2%35.9%12.4%$1.50$575.0M
Q3 FY25$4.1B-0.3%35.7%15.0%$1.34$1.1B
Q2 FY25$4.2B-1.6%35.0%14.2%$1.53$573.0M
Forward consensus
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$16.9B$16.7B – $17.0B$7.52$7.40 – $7.5511
FY27$17.6B$17.5B – $17.8B$7.54$7.28 – $7.759
FY28$18.3B$18.2B – $18.3B$8.14$8.02 – $8.957
FY29$26.6B$26.3B – $28.6B$8.48$8.34 – $9.313
FY30$35.9B$35.5B – $38.7B$9.13$8.99 – $10.036
Setup & momentum
Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.
Right now
Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.7×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.39%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+4.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+6.3%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.
Float & profile
FloatHigh float · 331.2M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.9% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.285-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.
Insider activity
Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.
Recent news
Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.
Kimberly-Clark Announces $10 Million Commitment to Support Wisconsin's Fox Valley Tornado Relief and Recovery5 Dividend Kings Continued to Pay and Raise Dividends Through Every Market Crash Since Black MondayDelta Global Management LP Invests $990,000 in Kimberly-Clark Corporation $KMB3 Dividend Stocks Baby Boomers Should Own for the Rest of Their LivesAn Overlooked Dividend King With a 54-Year Winning Streak Worth Buying Now
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