Kimberly-Clark
About the company
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets personal care products in the United States. It operates in two segments, North America and International Personal Care. The North America segment offers disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, reusable underwear, facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins, wipers, tissue, towels, soaps and sanitizers, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Goodnites, Kotex, Poise, Depend, Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Wypall, and other brand names. Its International Personal Care segment provides baby and child care, adult care and feminine care, including disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, reusable underwear, and other related products under the Huggies, Kotex, Goodfeel, Intimus, Depend, and other brand names. The company sells its 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. It also sells its professional use products through distributors directly to manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, and high-volume public facilities, as well as through e-commerce. Kimberly-Clark Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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5-year outlook: Not shown because confidence is low: Earnings-based DCF is somewhat apart.
Why: Free cash flow is positive and in line with earnings, and the dividend is small, so a cash-flow DCF fits best.
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Assumptions: growth 2%, discount rate 9.20%, terminal growth 2.40% (sector defaults). See a worked example.
Blended growth assumption: 2.0% (sector default 5.3%, own revenue history -4.1%, analyst revenue consensus 2.5%).
Analyst consensus expects revenue growth of 2.5% a year; the growth assumption used is 2.0%.
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Why this model: Free cash flow is positive and in line with earnings, and the dividend is small, so a cash-flow DCF fits best.
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— USD 83.10 (-24.8%)
Not used: Treats all earnings as if paid out and ignores the cash kept for reinvestment, so it overstates value for companies that retain most profit.
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DCF (trailing free cash flow)
— USD 97.04 (-12.1%)
Not used: Not chosen: Free-cash-flow DCF ranks ahead of it for this company.
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FCFF (steady state)
— USD 99.02 (-10.4%)
Not used: Assumes only the long-run terminal growth rate from today, so it ignores the near-term growth expected.
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EV/EBITDA (12x)
— USD 98.09 (-11.2%)
Not used: Used only when free cash flow is far below earnings even after averaging three years; a fixed 12x multiple also ignores sector differences.
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Fade DCF (10-year growth fade)
— USD 97.12 (-12.1%)
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EV/Sales (Rule of 40)
— USD 194.49 (+76.1%)
Not used: Used only for technology and communication companies whose cash-flow value is far below the price.
| Bear USD 141.70 | 22.0% |
| Base USD 194.49 | 43.2% |
| Bull USD 247.29 | 55.3% |
Margin = (value − price) / value, so it is measured against the value and reads lower than the upside to value, which is measured against the price. Positive means the price is below that case.
Track record: see the methodology page for how this model has performed historically, including its limits. Treat it as a screen, not a forecast.
Price history and fair value
5 years price change: +1.31% · USD 110.46 · Market data through 05 Nov 2026 ; dashed line is today’s model base value (USD 194.49). The fair value is today’s estimate, not what the model said in the past.
Saved price history is current through 05 Nov 2026; last refreshed 06 Nov 2026 18:33 (2 hours, 35 minutes ago).
08 Nov 2021Range USD 93.24 – 134.8905 Nov 2026
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More detail: quality, peers, price history, dividends and financials
Quality score: 74 / 100
Five equal checks on reported history: profitability, cash generation, revenue growth, balance sheet and margins. It describes business quality, not whether the price is attractive.
| Profitability | 5 of 5 years profitable | 20 / 20 |
| Cash generation | free cash flow positive in 5 of 5 years | 20 / 20 |
| Growth | revenue -4.8% a year | 4 / 20 |
| Balance sheet | net debt 1.7x EBITDA | 20 / 20 |
| Margins | EBITDA margin 19% | 10 / 20 |
Peers in Consumer Staples
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| CA.PA Carrefour SA | EUR 13.64 | 23.8% | 29.2 | 0.8 | 8.7% | 72 |
| ABF.L Associated British Foods plc | GBP 19.90 | 18.8% | 15.1 | 1.2 | 3.2% | 82 |
| ADM Archer Daniels Midland | USD 70.47 | 16.8% | 13.7 | 1.4 | 3.0% | 64 |
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| DLTR Dollar Tree | USD 137.94 | 0.3% | 16.3 | 7.7 | – | 72 |
| Peer median | 16.3 | 1.9 | ||||
Dividends
Paid in the last 12 months: USD 5.10 per share · yield 4.62% at the current price.
| Year | Dividends per share |
|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 3.840 |
| 2025 | 5.040 |
| 2024 | 4.880 |
| 2023 | 4.720 |
| 2022 | 4.640 |
| 2021 | 4.560 |
Trailing 12-month financials
TTM through 30 Jun 2026 · quarterly EODHD data · data downloaded 06 Nov 2026 14:12
| Revenue | USD 16,565,000,000 |
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| EBITDA | USD 3,188,000,000 |
| EBIT | USD 2,463,000,000 |
| Net income | USD 1,955,000,000 |
| Free cash flow | USD 2,561,000,000 |
| Capital expenditures | USD 1,574,000,000 |
| Debt | USD 6,517,000,000 |
| Cash | USD 956,000,000 |
| Working capital | USD -634,000,000 |
| Shares outstanding | 333,300,000 |
| Reported dividends per share | USD 5.0375 |