All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
All nine metrics read as filed from the record.
What did they actually do?
Has it survived what it has been through?
1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2025-05-19.
From the record
Kimberly-Clark Corporation's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2025-05-19) (its current reports).
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What has it actually done, year after year?
-1.4% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 9 of 9.
From the record
Kimberly-Clark Corporation's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $18 billion in fiscal 2017 to $16 billion in fiscal 2025, down 1.4% a year; it rose in 4 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 18% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
How has it treated the people who own it?
Share count shrank 0.5% a year. 65% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 4 sales, 1 purchases.
From the record
Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Kimberly-Clark Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 65% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are they doing right now?
Is it financially healthy right now?
ROE 135%: 135¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 91%: owes 91¢ per asset dollar.
From the record
Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Kimberly-Clark Corporation earned about 135 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 35 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 91 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.1% over the year (the filed statements).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
How strong is its position in its industry?
top 36% of 19 in its family; net margin 12.3%.
From the record
Kimberly-Clark Corporation's standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 14% by size; a net margin of 12.3% ranks in the top 13%; revenue growth of -6.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 18% (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are the people in charge doing?
top 45% of 13 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019.
From the record
Kimberly-Clark Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Hsu, Michael D. (Chairman of the Board and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-03-04, 7.7 years (top 12% of its family); the 29 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.5 years (bottom 21%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 29 people in charge now (top 43%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are they set up to do next?
How much room does it have to grow?
top 21% of 19 in its family for room to expand.
From the record
Kimberly-Clark Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $688 million against debt of $6.5 billion leaves -33.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 10% of revenue (top 8%); a gross margin of 36% (top 3%); research spending of 2% of revenue (top 12%) (its annual report).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What could actually drive growth from here?
bottom 49% of 19 in its family for growth drivers.
From the record
Kimberly-Clark Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -6.6% a year over the last three filed years against -1.4% over all 9, slowing (bottom 39% of its family); the newest year grew -2.1% (bottom 34%); research spending grew 3.7% a year (top 42%); capital spending grew 9.1% a year (top 34%) (its annual reports). Kimberly-Clark Corporation reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2025: Babyandchildcareproducts at $6.8 billion (41%), Family Care at $4.1 billion (25%), Adult Care Products at $1.9 billion (12%), and 3 more; 3 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?
top 36% of 18 in its family for expectations against reality.
From the record
Kimberly-Clark Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 7.2% above the $15 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 47% of its family); net income of $2.0 billion against a prior three-year average of $2.1 billion (top 36%); a net margin of 12.3% against 11.7% before (top 25%) (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made