4 Fastest Growing Blue Chip Stocks
Blue chip stocks can be an ideal addition to your portfolio if you are risk-averse. These companies enjoy a favorable reputation and historic stability in the markets. Based on the latest activity, these 4 blue chip stocks have been gaining fast.
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Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 338,007,008 |
| Shares Float | 337,210,103 |
| Shares Short | 8,909,790 |
| Insider Holdings | 34% |
| Institution Holdings | 75.52% |
About Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets personal care and consumer tissue products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, and K-C Professional. The Personal Care segment offers disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Little Swimmers, GoodNites, DryNites, Sweety, Kotex, U by Kotex, Intimus, Depend, Plenitud, Softex, Poise, and other brand names. The Consumer Tissue segment provides facial and bathroom tissues, paper towels, napkins, and related products under the Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Andrex, Scottex, Neve, and other brand names. The K-C Professional segment offers wipers, tissues, towels, apparel, soaps, and sanitizers under the Kleenex, Scott, WypAll, Kimtech, and KleenGuard brands. The company sells 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; and away-from-home use products directly to manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, and public facilities, as well as through distributors and e-commerce. Kimberly-Clark Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
General
| Name | Kimberly-Clark Corporation |
| Ticker | KMB |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Consumer Defensive |
| Industry | Household & Personal Products |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 46,000 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 147.80 |
| Market Cap | 44,692,979,712 |
| PE Ratio | 24.51 |
| PEG Ratio | 3.84 |
| EBITDA | 4,301,000,192 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 7.83 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 1.91 |
| Profit Margin | 0.12 |
| Return on Assets | 0.14 |
| Return on Equity | 7.24 |
| Revenue | 19,139,999,744 |
| Earnings Per Share | 6.87 |
| Revenue Per Share | 56.18 |
| Gross Profit | 7,105,000,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.06 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 19.25 |
| Forward PE | 16.92 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 2.37 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 71.57 |
Dividend
Kimberly-Clark Corporation pays out a dividend of $4.28 per share, with a dividend yield of 3.49%.
KMB's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on April 5, 2021.
They pay out 56.20% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Apr 2, 2024 | $1.22 |
| Jan 3, 2024 | $1.18 |
| Oct 3, 2023 | $1.18 |
| Jul 5, 2023 | $1.18 |
| Apr 4, 2023 | $1.18 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | $1.16 |
| Oct 4, 2022 | $1.16 |
| Jul 5, 2022 | $1.16 |
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