Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) Stock

About Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets personal care products in the United States. It operates in two segments, North America and International Personal Care. The North America segment offers disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, reusable underwear, facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins, wipers, tissue, towels, soaps and sanitizers, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Goodnites, Kotex, Poise, Depend, Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Wypall , and other brand names. Its International Personal Care segment provides baby and child care, adult care and feminine care, including disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, reusable underwear, and other related products under the Huggies, Kotex, Goodfeel, Intimus, Depend, and other brand names. The company sells its household use products directly to supermarkets, mass merchandisers, drugstores, warehouse clubs, variety and department stores, and other retail outlets, as well as through other distributors and e-commerce. It also sells its professional use products through distributors, directly to manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, and high-volume public facilities, and through e-commerce. Kimberly-Clark Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is led by CEO Michael D. Hsu, employs 38,000 people, headquartered in Dallas, US, publicly traded since 1980.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) stock trades at $111.22 with a market capitalization of $36.92B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 18.83, price-to-book of 17.99, price-to-sales of 1.92. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $92.42 and $137.46, and currently trades 19.1% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 5.28%.

On profitability, Kimberly-Clark Corporation generates a return on equity (ROE) of 1.12%, return on capital employed of 150.67%, an operating margin of 13.27%, a net profit margin of 12.81%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Kimberly-Clark Corporation reported annual revenue of $17.2B, net profit of $2.0B, revenue has compounded at -2.1% a year over the last five years, profit at -3.0% a year.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.94 — a leveraged balance sheet worth monitoring, a current ratio of 0.75, total assets of $17.2B, $688.0M in cash and equivalents.

KMB has an average daily trading volume of 4,570,112 shares, a beta of 0.30 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.kimberly-clark.com