Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets personal care, consumer tissue, and professional products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, and K-C Professional. The Personal Care segment offers disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Little Swimmers, GoodNites, DryNites, Kotex, U by Kotex, Intimus, Depend, Plenitud, Poise, and other brand names. The Consumer Tissue segment provides facial and bathroom tissues, paper towels, napkins, and related products under the Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Andrex, Scottex, Neve, and other brand names. The K-C Professional segment offers wipers, tissues, towels, apparel, soaps, and sanitizers under the Kleenex, Scott, WypAll, Kimtech, and Jackson Safety brands. The company sells 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; and away-from-home use products directly to manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, and public facilities, as well as through distributors. Kimberly-Clark Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Industry, Sector and Symbol
Stock Exchange NYSE
Industry Converted paper & paperboard products, except containers & box
Sub-IndustryHousehold Products
SectorConsumer Staples
Current SymbolNYSE:KMB
Previous Symbol
CUSIP49436810
Phone972-281-1200
Debt
Debt-to-Equity Ratio32.28
Current Ratio0.76
Quick Ratio0.49
Price-To-Earnings
Trailing P/E Ratio16.72
Forward P/E Ratio15.62
P/E Growth2.55
Sales & Book Value
Annual Sales$18.26 billion
Price / Sales1.98
Cash Flow$7.9172 per share
Price / Cash13.16
Book Value$2.51 per share
Price / Book41.51
Profitability
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$6.23
Net Income$2.28 billion
Net Margins9.33%
Return on Equity432.18%
Return on Assets15.20%
Miscellaneous
Employees42,000
Outstanding Shares347,670,000
Market Cap$38.32 billion
OptionableN/A
