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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Consumer products · CIK 0000055785
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$37.28B market value
From KIMBERLY CLARK CORP's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026 · read the filing
KIMBERLY CLARK makes paper and packaging. It took in $16.45B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 12 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and debt, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From KIMBERLY CLARK CORP's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Capital spending
$721.0M → $1.14B
Profit
$2.54B → $2.02B
Free cash flow
$2.51B → $1.64B
Earnings per share
$7.67 → $6.09
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 12, 2026
Changed: +57.8%
$721.0M to $1.14BCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: -20.6%
$2.54B to $2.02BSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
KMB rose 5.32% on the latest quote. The average Materials company tracked here moved −1.44%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 6.8 points above its sector and 6.4 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 9% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 3% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 12 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $2.02B last year.
No. Sales shrank 2.1% last year.
No. At its current cash flow it could clear its debt in about 2.3 years. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.10 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 82 cents of every dollar of profit, which leaves little room for the payment to survive a bad year. It paid out 60% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
MixedNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $2.02B and generated $2.78B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 12, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 12, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 12, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 13, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 10, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $16.45B | $16.80B | $17.15B | $20.18B | $19.44B | −2.1% |
| Cost of revenue | $10.52B | $10.52B | $10.88B | $13.96B | $13.45B | +0.1% |
| Gross profit | $5.92B | $6.29B | $6.27B | $6.22B | $5.99B | −5.8% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 36.0% | 37.4% | 36.6% | 30.8% | 30.8% | −1.4 pts |
| Operating income | $2.35B | $2.70B | $1.93B | $2.68B | $2.56B | −12.9% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 14.3% | 16.1% | 11.2% | 13.3% | 13.2% | −1.8 pts |
| Interest expense | $256.0M | $270.0M | $293.0M | $282.0M | $256.0M | −5.2% |
| Income before tax | $2.05B | $2.93B | $2.02B | $2.34B | $2.23B | −29.9% |
| Net income | $2.02B | $2.54B | $1.76B | $1.93B | $1.81B | −20.6% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 12.3% | 15.1% | 10.3% | 9.6% | 9.3% | −2.9 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $6.09 | $7.67 | $5.23 | $5.73 | $5.39 | −20.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMBKIMBERLY CLARK CORP · this page | 7.3/10 | 5/9 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 4,024 shares
Holds 7,641 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 1,255 shares
Holds 8,896 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Reported another event
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from KMB's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 12, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.3 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 8, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 9, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 6.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 10, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.7 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
3.51
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -34.8%
$2.51B to $1.64BSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -20.6%
$7.67 to $6.09Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -31.9%
$1.01B to $688.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -5.8%
$6.29B to $5.92BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: -12.9%
$2.70B to $2.35BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: −1.4 pts
37.4% to 36.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −1.8 pts
16.1% to 14.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −2.9 pts
15.1% to 12.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -5.5%
$6.85B to $6.47BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 4, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +50.8%
$634.0M to $956.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -32.2%
$509.0M to $345.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +3.3 pts
35.0% to 38.3%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −4.0 pts
12.2% to 8.2%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -32.4%
$1.53 to $1.04Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +10.1%
$1.46B to $1.60BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +6.9%
$592.0M to $633.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 4, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -48.1%
$665.0M to $345.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: -48.2%
$2.00 to $1.04Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +76.4%
$542.0M to $956.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -15.9%
$753.0M to $633.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: −7.7 pts
16.0% to 8.2%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +1.4 pts
36.8% to 38.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −3.0 pts
18.1% to 15.1%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
3 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 7% and 12%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 21 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 21 analysts publishing on this company, 4 say strong buy, 6 say buy, 10 say hold and 1 say strong sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 16.0% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 19.0x — investors pay $19.0 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 534 shares at $109.31 ($58.4K)
Holds 8,362 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 1,711 shares at $109.31 ($187.0K)
Holds 6,651 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 966 shares
Holds 2,065 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 404 shares at $109.31 ($44.2K)
Holds 1,661 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Reported another event
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Profit margin −4.0 pts · Cash +50.8% · Profit -32.2% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin +2.5 pts · Free cash flow +161.0% · Capital spending +107.8% — against Q1 FY2026
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Operating margin −1.8 pts · Capital spending +57.8% · Profit -20.6% — against FY2024
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Operating margin −9.8 pts · Profit -50.8% · Profit margin −11.1 pts — against Q3 FY2025
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