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Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB)

NASDAQ / Consumer Defensive / Household & Personal Products

Share price

105.57 USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026

Market capitalisation

35.11B USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026
Market data
Oct 16, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 12, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 16, 2026
Filed years
18, FY2007 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

19.8% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

17.33x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

4.7% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 18.29B USDFY2016 Net income: 2.17B USDFY2017 Revenue: 18.35B USDFY2017 Net income: 2.28B USDFY2018 Revenue: 18.49B USDFY2018 Net income: 1.41B USDFY2019 Revenue: 18.45B USDFY2019 Net income: 2.16B USDFY2020 Revenue: 19.14B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.35B USDFY2021 Revenue: 19.44B USDFY2021 Net income: 1.81B USDFY2022 Revenue: 20.18B USDFY2022 Net income: 1.93B USDFY2023 Revenue: 17.15B USDFY2023 Net income: 1.76B USDFY2024 Revenue: 16.80B USDFY2024 Net income: 2.54B USDFY2025 Revenue: 16.45B USDFY2025 Net income: 2.02B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
2 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 17.33x at the close of 2026-10-16 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (135 companies), 17.33x sits at the 37th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.73x to 34.00x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 19.8% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Above the cost of capital" (12.0% to 20.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (102 companies), 19.8% sits at the 89th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 2.7% to 14.1%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 9.18x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Kimberly-Clark Corporation's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Defensive sector, year by year. (FY2021 to FY2025, 5 fiscal years of Kimberly-Clark Corporation with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Kimberly-Clark Corporation's gross margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
What could explain it
What in Kimberly-Clark Corporation's filed statements could explain the movements. (9 readings drawn from the statement lines Kimberly-Clark Corporation filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and where in its filings. (8 questions for Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Kimberly-Clark Corporation's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (16 of sixteen figures read for Kimberly-Clark Corporation)

These are KMB’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-007567.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Kimberly-Clark Corporation: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax19.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Return on equity134.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Return on capital employed, pre-tax23.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Return on assets11.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Gross margin36.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Operating margin14.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Net margin12.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
KMB 12.3%
UL 18.8%CL 10.5%CLX 11.4%SGI 5.1%CHD 11.9%
5.1%18.8%
Net margin: KMB against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Kimberly-Clark Corporation: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity5.06 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Current ratio0.75 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Quick ratio0.54 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Interest coverage9.18x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Altman Z-score3.44 ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Net debt6.91B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Total assets 17.10BTotal liabilities 15.47BShareholders' equity 1.50BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Kimberly-Clark Corporation owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567).

Kimberly-Clark Corporation: balance sheet position
Total assets17.10B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Total liabilities15.47B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Shareholders' equity1.50B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Cash688.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Total debt7.60B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Net debt6.91B
Current ratio0.75
Debt to equity5.06

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Kimberly-Clark Corporation: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings17.33x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
P/E on trailing twelve months17.95x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book23.42x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Price to sales2.14x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Enterprise value to EBIT17.90x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Enterprise value to EBITDA13.33x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Diluted earnings per share6.07 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Graham number24.85 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value KMB on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Kimberly-Clark Corporation today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation: valuation
Share price105.57 USD
Market capitalisation35.11B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA13.33x
Graham number24.85 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20256.07 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 14.83x, median 21.45x, high 30.74x, latest 17.95x. 2,524 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Kimberly-Clark Corporation

  1. Unilever PLC (UL)Market cap 142.50B USD
  2. Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL)Market cap 75.02B USD
  3. The Clorox Company (CLX)Market cap 10.53B USD
  4. Somnigroup International Inc (SGI)Market cap 14.64B USD
  5. Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (CHD)Market cap 24.79B USD

Same industry (Household & Personal Products) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Kimberly-Clark Corporation: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield4.7% ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Free cash flow1.64B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Free cash flow margin10.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Dividend yield4.8% ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Payout ratio82.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
FY2016 Free cash flow: 2.46B USDFY2016 Net income: 2.17B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 2.14B USDFY2017 Net income: 2.28B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 2.09B USDFY2018 Net income: 1.41B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 1.53B USDFY2019 Net income: 2.16B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 2.51B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.35B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 1.72B USDFY2021 Net income: 1.81B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 1.86B USDFY2022 Net income: 1.93B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 2.78B USDFY2023 Net income: 1.76B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 2.51B USDFY2024 Net income: 2.54B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 1.64B USDFY2025 Net income: 2.02B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
17.33xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
23.42xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
17.90xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
4.7%FY2025Oct 16, 2026
19.8%FY2025Feb 12, 2026
4.8%FY2025Oct 16, 2026
5.06FY2025Feb 12, 2026
0.75FY2025Feb 12, 2026
2.14xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
3.44FY2025Oct 16, 2026
-2.57FY2025Feb 12, 2026
5/9FY2025Feb 12, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 18 filed fiscal years on record, FY2007 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 16, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 16, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Kimberly-Clark Corporation filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202516.45B2.35B2.02B6.071.64B14.3%134.6%10-K, Feb 12, 20260001628280-26-007567
FY202416.80B2.70B2.54B7.552.51B16.1%303.0%10-K, Feb 13, 20250000055785-25-000013
FY202317.15B1.93B1.76B5.212.78B11.2%192.8%10-K, Feb 8, 20240000055785-24-000018
FY202220.18B2.68B1.93B5.721.86B13.3%353.6%10-K, Feb 9, 20230000055785-23-000012
FY202119.44B2.56B1.81B5.351.72B13.2%352.9%10-K, Feb 10, 20220000055785-22-000010
FY202019.14B3.24B2.35B6.872.51B16.9%375.7%10-K, Feb 11, 20210000055785-21-000016
FY201918.45B2.99B2.16B6.241.53B16.2%n/m10-K, Feb 13, 20200000055785-20-000016
FY201818.49B2.23B1.41B4.032.09B12.1%n/m10-K, Feb 7, 20190000055785-19-000013
FY201718.35B3.36B2.28B6.402.14B18.3%258.3%10-K, Feb 8, 20180000055785-18-000014
FY201618.29B3.38B2.17B5.992.46B18.5%n/m10-K, Feb 8, 20170000055785-17-000017
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -1.2%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -0.8%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 0.1%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -4.4%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Kimberly-Clark Corporation: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.57 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0001628280-26-007567
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta0.13 ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 28 not met, 0 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Dividends and buybacks; ROIC at or above WACC
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Figures we could not read(2)
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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  • 2 figures could not be read on this company: PEG Ratio, Price Tangible Book.

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