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With more than half of its sales from personal care and another third from consumer tissue products, Kimberly-Clark is a leading manufacturer in the tissue and hygiene realm. Its brand mix includes Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Depend, Kleenex, and Cottonelle. The firm also operates in the professional segment, partnering with businesses to provide workplace safety and sanitation solutions. Kimberly-Clark generates just over half its sales in North America and more than 10% in Europe, with the rest primarily concentrated in Asia and Latin America. It is slated to add Kenvue's consumer health portfolio to its mix in the second half of calendar year 2026.
Kimberly-Clark trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol KMB.
As of July 7, 2026, KMB stock price climbed to $114.74 with 2,870,238 million shares trading.
KMB has a beta of 0.29, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. KMB has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.
KMB has a market cap of $38.07 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Kimberly-Clark reported $4 billion in Revenue and $1.97 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $66 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.04.
In the last 3 years, KMB traded as high as $150.45 and as low as $92.42.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that KMB belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, SCHD, VOO, VO, IVV.
KMB has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -9.0%, while SPY returned +21.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in KMB shares. However, KMB has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +24.7% and +10.4%, while SPY returned +13.7% and +1.9%, respectively. This indicates KMB has been having a stronger performance recently.
KMB support price is $111.19 and resistance is $114.83 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that KMB shares will trade within this expected range on the day.