Recent developments with Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB) have led to the company’s beta value being reach 0.43 cents.

A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Kimberly-Clark Corp (NYSE: KMB) stock price up 0.60% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $125.43. KMB’s price has ranged from $117.67 to $149.30 over the past 52 weeks.

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Annual sales at Consumer Defensive sector company grew by 2.59% over the past five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 11.68%. With a float of $333.02 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $333.52 million.

Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 41000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 36.03%, operating margin of 17.11%, and the pretax margin is 15.23%.

Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB) Insider and Institutional Ownership

As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Household & Personal Products Industry. The insider ownership of Kimberly-Clark Corp is 0.14%, while institutional ownership is 81.73%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 22 ’24, was worth 417,036. In this transaction Vice President and Controller of this company sold 3,000 shares at a rate of $139.01, taking the stock ownership to the 5,053 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 22 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 5,000 for $83.38, making the entire transaction worth $416,900.

Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.03 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 11.68% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.00% during the next five years compared to 5.26% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Kimberly-Clark Corp (NYSE: KMB) Trading Performance Indicators

Here are Kimberly-Clark Corp’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.55. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.09. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 14.50.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 7.71, a number that is poised to hit 1.51 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 7.62 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB)

Kimberly-Clark Corp (NYSE: KMB) saw its 5-day average volume 2.02 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 1.93 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 15.79%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.96.

During the past 100 days, Kimberly-Clark Corp’s (KMB) raw stochastic average was set at 8.25%, which indicates a significant decrease from 22.37% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 16.68% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 15.68% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $132.93, while its 200-day Moving Average is $136.80. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $127.04 in the near term. At $127.89, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $128.83. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $125.25, it is likely to go to the next support level at $124.31. The third support level lies at $123.46 if the price breaches the second support level.

Kimberly-Clark Corp (NYSE: KMB) Key Stats

With a market capitalization of 42.08 billion, the company has a total of 333,485K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 20,431 M while annual income is 1,764 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 4,952 M while its latest quarter income was 907,000 K.