STOCK REPORT · KMB · NYSE
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Overall grade
60 pointsMiddle bandOverall 60 points · Grade B, 10 points to Grade A
Financial summary
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) has an overall grade of B from financial statements, with a score of 60 out of 100. Category scores are Earnings 75 (Grade A), Financial health 36 (Grade C) and Dividends 68 (Grade B). Data as of Oct 15, 2026.
Reported figures: ROE 104.91%, Operating margin 19%, Revenue growth +0.6%, Debt ratio 348.93%, Current ratio 90.9%, Interest coverage 9.18x, Dividend yield 5.21%, Payout ratio 100.2%, Dividend streak 30+ yrs. Valuation: PER 19.38x, PBR 18.89x, Market cap $33.0B.
This summary restates reported financial figures. It does not forecast share prices or returns.
Valuation
52-week range
Now at 23% of rangeWithin their own 52-week ranges, 15.6% of major US stocks sit lower than this one.
About these metrics
- PER
- Price to earnings ratio (market cap ÷ annual net profit). A lower value means a lower price relative to profit.
- PBR
- Price to book ratio (market cap ÷ net assets). Below 1x, the market value is below book value.
- Market cap
- Share price × shares outstanding. The value the market puts on the whole company.
- 52-week high
- The highest share price over the past year.
- 52-week low
- The lowest share price over the past year.
Scores by category
Each metric out of 100 · category score is the average of threeEarnings · Profitability
40% of overall · Upper bandEach metric is scored out of 100, and the 75 above is the average of the three scores.
Metrics with values3 of 3
As of Jun 2026
About these metrics
- ROE
- Return on equity. How much profit the company made on its own capital (equity).
- Operating margin
- Operating profit as a share of revenue. It shows the profitability of the core business.
- Revenue growth
- How much revenue changed compared with a year earlier.
Financial health
35% of overall · Lower-middle bandEach metric is scored out of 100, and the 36 above is the average of the three scores.
Metrics with values3 of 3
Interest coverage is divided by interest expense from the income statement.
About these metrics
- Debt ratio
- Liabilities as a share of equity. A lower ratio means the company relies less on debt.
- Current ratio
- Assets that can turn into cash within a year, as a share of debts due within a year. At 100% or more they cover those debts.
- Interest coverage
- How many times operating profit covers interest expense. Below 1x, operating profit does not cover interest.
Dividends
25% of overall · Middle bandEach metric is scored out of 100, and the 68 above is the average of the three scores.
Metrics with values3 of 3
About these metrics
- Dividend yield
- Dividends paid over a year as a share of the current share price.
- Payout ratio
- The share of profit paid out as dividends. A very high ratio can be hard to keep up.
- Dividend streak
- How many years in a row the company has paid a dividend.
Metric scores are shown rounded to one decimal place, so a category score can differ by up to 1 point from a plain average of the three shown.
Strengths · Weaknesses
Strengths
- High profit relative to equity (ROE 104.91%)Above the median 22.3% of 21 Consumer defensive stocks
- Has paid dividends for 30+ yrs in a row
- High dividend yield (5.21%)Above the median 2.8% of 23 Consumer defensive stocks
Weaknesses
- Heavy debt burden (debt ratio 348.93%)Above the median 82.6% of 21 Consumer defensive stocks
- Tight short-term liquidity (current ratio 90.9%)
- Pays more in dividends than it earns (payout ratio 100.2%)
A summary of only the metrics that stand out as notably good or weak against general benchmarks. Where a comparison is possible, the position against the median of stocks in the same sector is shown too. The stock count on each sector line covers only stocks with that metric, so it differs by metric.
Metrics that moved the overall score
- ROE+6.7 pts
- Operating margin+5.0 pts
- Dividend streak+4.2 pts
- Dividend yield+3.8 pts
- Interest coverage+3.2 pts
- Revenue growth-1.6 pts
- Current ratio-3.1 pts
- Payout ratio-3.3 pts
- Debt ratio-4.7 pts
Metric scores run up to 100, and the middle score is 50. If all nine metrics scored 50, the overall score would also be 50. Each bar is the contribution of one metric: how far its score sits from the 50 baseline, converted by that metric weight. Right means it raised the overall score, left means it lowered it.
Adding the nine contributions above to the baseline gives 60.2 points, and this stock's overall score is 60. The overall score is calculated from unrounded metric scores and then truncated, while the contributions here are rounded to one decimal place, so the two can differ by up to 1 point. Metrics that are not measured values still carry a contribution, because their scores did go into the overall score and hiding them would hide part of the basis of the grade.
| Metric | Kimberly-Clark Corporation | Sector median | Rank in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| PER | 19.4x | 22.5x | |
| PBR | 18.9x | 6.4x | |
| ROE | 104.9% | 22.3% | |
| Operating margin | 19.0% | 16.9% | |
| Debt ratio | 348.9% | 82.6% | |
| Dividend yield | 5.2% | 2.8% |
Grey values on the right are sector medians
Metric ranks in sector
Closer to 1st sits further left- PERRank 8 of 21, top 38%
- PBRRank 20 of 21, top 95%
- ROERank 2 of 21, top 10%
- Operating marginRank 11 of 23, top 48%
- Debt ratioRank 18 of 21, top 86%
- Dividend yieldRank 3 of 23, top 13%
On the rank strip, the left end is 1st. PER, PBR and debt ratio are ranked from the lowest value, and ROE, operating margin and dividend yield from the highest.
Consumer defensive stocks close in market cap rank
Sector medians cover the 23 Consumer defensive stocks listed on Jupick. Typical levels differ by sector, so this is reference information for a simple comparison and not a basis for investment decisions.
About these metrics
- PER
- Price to earnings ratio (market cap ÷ annual net profit). A lower value means a lower price relative to profit.
- PBR
- Price to book ratio (market cap ÷ net assets). Below 1x, the market value is below book value.
- ROE
- Return on equity. How much profit the company made on its own capital (equity).
- Operating margin
- Operating profit as a share of revenue. It shows the profitability of the core business.
- Debt ratio
- Liabilities as a share of equity. A lower ratio means the company relies less on debt.
- Dividend yield
- Dividends paid over a year as a share of the current share price.
Where this score sits
42.6% of the major stocks graded by Jupick score lower than this. Stocks in the same Grade B: 192.
- S112.8%
- A10927.3%
- BThis stock19248.1%
- C7117.8%
- D164%
The Grade B band runs from 50 to 69 points, 20 points wide. This stock's 60 points sit 10 points above the lower boundary, and 10 points remain to 70, where Grade A starts.
Within the Consumer defensive sector alone, it ranks No. 16 of 23 stocks with an overall score, and the median overall score of the sector is 63.
Unlike metric values, the overall score uses the same baseline for every market and currency, so Korean and US stocks share one sample. The grade boundaries of 85, 70, 50 and 30 points apply equally to every stock, so the counts above are how the sample actually splits at those boundaries. Because one point can decide a grade, two stocks with different grades can be closer in score than two stocks with the same grade. The shares and ranks here describe only the major stocks Jupick covers, not every listed stock.
Schedule
Earnings release
A date announced by the company.
The day the company publishes quarterly or annual results. Only the release date is covered, not the results. Release times are not covered, so only the date (Korea time) is shown. After the release, metrics such as revenue growth are updated at the next data refresh.
Dividend dates
- Ex-dividend date
- Shares acquired from this date do not carry the dividend for that period. From this date the shares trade without the right to it.
- Payment date
- The day the confirmed dividend reaches shareholder accounts. It comes weeks to months after the ex-dividend date, and Korean year-end dividends are set only after the shareholder meeting confirms them.
These are the announced ex-dividend and payment dates. The next period is not shown until its dates are set. Days remaining are counted in Korea time when the page was updated, so they can be off by about a day. The dates are copied as announced and can change. For the size of the dividend, see dividend yield. For information only. Not investment advice.
Stocks with similar score profiles
| Stock | Earnings | Financial health | Dividends |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB, this stock) | 75 | 36 | 68 |
| BInternational Business Machines Corporation | 73 | 34 | 69 |
| B3M Company | 79 | 38 | 68 |
| BThe Home Depot, Inc. | 77 | 40 | 66 |
| BExtra Space Storage Inc. | 67 | 35 | 67 |
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) has category scores of Earnings 75 · Financial health 36 · Dividends 68. These are the four major stocks graded in all three categories whose profiles come closest, and no category differs by more than 8 points.
The three scores are given by Jupick from public financial metrics, each out of 100. A similar profile means similar grading results only. It does not mean the share prices move alike.
Metrics to read together
Read one at a time, metrics split into strengths and weaknesses, but side by side two of them can be two sides of the same fact.
- ROEDebt ratio
High ROE sits on top of heavy debt
ROE divides profit by equity, so it also rises when borrowing grows and equity gets thinner. Kimberly-Clark Corporation has a high ROE of 104.91% and a heavy debt ratio of 348.93%. Read apart, one is a strength and the other a weakness, but these two figures alone cannot separate how much profit was made from how thin the equity is.
- Dividend yieldPayout ratio
Dividends exceeded the year's profit
A dividend yield of 5.21% is on the high side, and a payout ratio of 100.2% means more was paid as dividends than the profit earned that year. The gap came from retained earnings or other sources, so the year's profit alone did not cover this dividend.
This explains how reported figures relate to each other. It says nothing about future results or share prices. Metrics without measured values are left out.
Ratios as amounts
Base ₩10,000Every ratio metric of this stock, restated on the same amount. If each line used a different base, the amounts could not be compared, so every line starts from ₩10,000.
For every ₩10,000 of revenue: operating profit ₩1,900.Operating margin 19.0%
- For every ₩10,000 of equityyearly net profit ₩10,490
- If last year's revenue was ₩10,000this year's revenue ₩10,060
- For every ₩10,000 of equitydebt owed ₩34,890
- For every ₩10,000 of debt due within a yearassets turning into cash within a year ₩9,090
- For every ₩10,000 of interestoperating profit ₩92,000
- For every ₩10,000 worth of sharesdividends over the last year ₩520
- For every ₩10,000 of net profitdividends paid to shareholders ₩10,020
- For ₩10,000 of net profitmarket value ₩194,000
- For ₩10,000 of book equitymarket value ₩189,000
The ₩10,000 base is an assumption chosen for easy reading, not this company's actual revenue or equity. The values multiply the ratios shown as they are and round to the nearest won, so they can differ from the source by a few won. Metrics that make no sense as amounts are left out: values that are not measured, values that cannot be confirmed as measured, and loss-making cases where the base amount does not hold. This stock does not report in won, but ratios do not depend on currency, so the amounts are shown in won.
Metrics that decide the grade
Overall 60 · Grade BThe overall score recalculated with just one of the nine metrics set to the middle score of 50. Only one metric changes at a time, and the other eight stay as they are.
With any single metric at 50, the overall score stays in Grade B.
The metric closest to a boundary is ROE. With only this metric at 50, the overall score would be 53.3, 3.3 points from the 50 point boundary. Earnings · metric 100 · contribution +6.7
The scores above add up this stock's metric scores again with one of them set to 50. They are not new grades, and this stock's grade stays at B. Metric scores and contributions are rounded to one decimal place, so a change within 1 point of a boundary is not reported as a grade change. Changing two or more metrics at once was not calculated.
Where the share price enters the grade
The grade above turns 9 metrics into scores and combines them. Counting how many of them use the share price shows whether the grade moves when the price moves.
1 of the 9 graded metrics divide by the share price.
- Earnings grade metrics (3)Does not use the share price0 of 3 metrics use the share price
- Financial health grade metrics (3)Does not use the share price0 of 3 metrics use the share price
- Dividend grade metrics (3)Only Dividend yield divides by the share price1 of 3 metrics use the share price
- PER and PBRCome from the share price but are not scoredNot graded
For US stocks, only Dividend yield divides dividends by the share price. It is recalculated when the price changes, and the other 8 metrics come from financial statements and dividend history.
Stocks with a value for each metric
The grade above uses 9 metrics. Each line shows how many major stocks have a value for that metric, so you can tell whether a blank is specific to this stock or common to most stocks.
All 9 graded metrics have values.
- ROEHas a value378 of 399 stocks have a value
- Operating marginHas a value371 of 399 stocks have a value
- Revenue growthHas a value375 of 399 stocks have a value
- Debt ratioHas a value370 of 399 stocks have a value
- Current ratioHas a value360 of 399 stocks have a value
- Interest coverageHas a value190 of 399 stocks have a value
- Dividend yieldHas a value352 of 399 stocks have a value
- Payout ratioHas a value348 of 399 stocks have a value
- Dividend streakHas a value398 of 399 stocks have a value
All 9 metrics of this stock are measured values.
Position in the market distribution
US stocksWhere the value of Kimberly-Clark Corporation sits when the US stocks on Jupick are lined up from the smallest value, ignoring sector. Left is smaller, right is larger, and the shaded part is the middle half.
The thin lower axis counts the position again within the same sector (Consumer defensive) only. 2 of the metrics with a lower axis sit in a different band from the whole market. On those lines, the bracket under the upper axis marks the middle half that the sector's stocks take on the market axis, and the short line inside is their middle.
- PER19.4xOn the upper axis, the middle half of these 16 stocks sits between 37.6% and 72.6%, with the middle at 50.8%.
- PBR18.9x
- ROE104.9%
- Operating margin19.0%
- Debt ratio348.9%On the upper axis, the middle half of these 15 stocks sits between 55% and 89.9%, with the middle at 64%.
- Dividend yield5.2%
Won and dollar stocks have different metric levels, so they are counted in separate samples. This is only where a value sits in a line-up, not a sign of good or bad and not an investment judgement. Stocks without the metric, and loss-making stocks where PER or PBR does not hold, are left out of the sample. The remaining sample size is shown on each line. The sector axis is not drawn when the same-currency, same-sector sample has fewer than 8 stocks.
In Korean won
Dollar amounts converted at the exchange rate below, to compare their size with Korean stocks in the same unit.
Reference values calculated at the rate shown above. Actual trades and currency exchange use the rate and fees of the broker, so amounts differ. The 52-week high and low are not converted, because it is not known when they were set and so no rate can be chosen.
Investment notice
For information only. Not investment advice. Grades and figures are reference material calculated from public information. They do not ask anyone to trade a security and make no promise of returns. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions and their results, and Jupick accepts no legal liability for them.