Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $133.40, with 4.58 million shares of worth about $611.28 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -8.26% during that period and on April 23, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -3.28%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 331.80M shares, out of which, 331.08M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -5.70% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -3.21%. Year-to-date (YTD), KMB shares are showing a performance of 1.80% which increased to 5.18% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $124.10 but also hit the highest price of $150.45 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Kimberly-Clark Corp shares is 2.27 million. The stock is currently trading -4.38% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -4.40% for SMA50 and it goes to -3.19% lower than SMA200.
Kimberly-Clark Corp (NYSE: KMB) currently have 331.80M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 80.86% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $44.24B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.37. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 17.67, while it has posted earnings per share of $7.55 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.68 and has Quick Ratio of 0.54 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 9.38. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for KMB, volatility over the week remained 3.26% while standing at 2.72% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -1.59% while it is estimated to increase by 6.64% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 3.78% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 3.89% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by TD Cowen on January 08, 2025 offering a Hold rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $145 to it. Coverage by TD Cowen stated Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on July 23, 2024, suggesting a price target of $161 for the stock. On June 24, 2024, Exane BNP Paribas Initiated their recommendations, while on June 13, 2024, BofA Securities Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $160. Stock get an Outperform rating from RBC Capital Mkts on June 03, 2024.
