NYSE:KMB - Kimberly Clark Stock Price, Forecast & News

Kimberly Clark trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KMB."

Kimberly Clark declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 21st. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 6th will be paid a dividend of $1.03 per share on Friday, January 3rd. This represents a $4.12 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.81%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 5th. View Kimberly Clark's Dividend History.

Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE:KMB) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 23rd. The company reported $1.71 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.70 by $0.01. The firm earned $4.58 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.58 billion. Kimberly Clark had a net margin of 10.96% and a return on equity of 93,800.00%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up .3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $1.60 earnings per share. View Kimberly Clark's Earnings History.

Kimberly Clark is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 23rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Kimberly Clark.

Kimberly Clark issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $7.10-7.35 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $7.25. The company issued revenue guidance of $18.63, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $18.70 billion.

12 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Kimberly Clark's shares. Their forecasts range from $116.00 to $155.00. On average, they expect Kimberly Clark's stock price to reach $138.64 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for Kimberly Clark.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Kimberly Clark in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Kimberly Clark.

Media coverage about KMB stock has been trending somewhat positive on Thursday, according to InfoTrie. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Kimberly Clark earned a media sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Kimberly Clark.

Kimberly Clark saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 8,510,000 shares, an increase of 8.4% from the November 28th total of 7,850,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,480,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.8 days. Approximately 2.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Kimberly Clark's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Kimberly Clark investors own include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), AT&T (T), Procter & Gamble (PG), Verizon Communications (VZ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), PepsiCo (PEP), AbbVie (ABBV), The Coca-Cola (KO), Intel (INTC) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Kimberly Clark's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.22%), PGGM Investments (0.15%), Meyer Handelman Co. (0.13%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.09%), Marathon Asset Management LLP (0.08%) and Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (0.08%). Company insiders that own Kimberly Clark stock include Aaron Powell, Achal Agarwal, Anthony J Palmer, J Scott Boston, Jeffrey P Melucci, Kimberly K Underhill, Michael T Azbell, Robert W Decherd, Sandra Macquillan and Thomas J Falk. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Kimberly Clark.

KMB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, PGGM Investments, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., DNB Asset Management AS, Marathon Asset Management LLP, United Services Automobile Association, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH and NEXT Financial Group Inc. Company insiders that have sold Kimberly Clark company stock in the last year include Aaron Powell, Achal Agarwal, Anthony J Palmer, J Scott Boston, Jeffrey P Melucci, Kimberly K Underhill, Sandra Macquillan and Thomas J Falk. View Insider Buying and Selling for Kimberly Clark.

KMB stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Baxter Bros Inc., Janney Montgomery Scott LLC and AE Wealth Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Kimberly Clark.

Shares of KMB can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of KMB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $146.67.

Kimberly Clark has a market capitalization of $50.28 billion and generates $18.49 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.41 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.61 on an earnings per share basis. Kimberly Clark employs 41,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Kimberly Clark.

The official website for Kimberly Clark is http://www.kimberly-clark.com/.

Kimberly Clark's mailing address is P O BOX 619100 DFW AIRPORT STATION, DALLAS TX, 75261. The company can be reached via phone at 972-281-1200 or via email at [email protected]