Kimberly-Clark Corporation

KMB Consumer Defensive Household & Personal Products

Kimberly-Clark Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $16.4 billion, down 2.13% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+0.62%
EPS
−32.0%
Free cash flow
−4.79%
Total debt
−10.0%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

110.65 1.86 +1.71%
Market cap
$67.8B
P/E
18.8×
Fwd P/E
16.9×
Dividend yield
4.61%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
3.37
Beneish M
−2.63
Dividend safety
44/100

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) Free cash flow margin

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Kimberly-Clark Corporation's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 11.3%, up 1.1 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (10.2%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 6.72% (fiscal 2015) to 18.8% (fiscal 2024); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Household & Personal Products industry median of 4.87% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.51%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 10.2% (8.66)
FY2024 18.8% 1.21
FY2023 17.6% 8.36
FY2022 9.26% 0.18
FY2021 9.08% (4.21)
FY2020 13.3% 3.70
FY2019 9.59% (2.01)
FY2018 11.6% (0.10)
FY2017 11.7% (1.88)
FY2016 13.6% 6.86

Against its own ten years

Low 6.72% High 18.8%
Ten-year median 11.6%
Current reading's percentile 45

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
PG Procter & Gamble Company (The) compare 18.1%
CL Colgate-Palmolive Company compare 17.8%
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. compare 16.8%
IPAR Interparfums, Inc. compare 16.0%
ELF e.l.f. Beauty compare 14.2%
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation 11.3%
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. compare 9.99%
CLX The Clorox Company compare 6.30%
UL Unilever PLC compare 0.00%
Household & Personal Products industry median 4.87%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.51%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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