The Most Important "AI Stock" You've Never Heard Of
The AI revolution is moving faster than anyone expected. But what no one is talking about is the one company AI simply can't exist without. It may be the single most important AI investment, yet most people don't even know its name. For now. The moment Wall Street catches on, this $20 stock could explode.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 331,870,000 |
| Shares Float | 331,210,000 |
| Shares Short | 4,460,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 21% |
| Institution Holdings | 80.16% |
About Kimberly-Clark Corp
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets personal care products in the United States. It operates through three segments: North America, International Personal Care, and International Family Care and Professional. The company North America segment offers disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, reusable underwear, facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins, wipers, tissue, towels, soaps and sanitizers, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Kotex, Poise, Depend, Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Wypall, and other brand names. The International Personal Care segment provides baby and child care, adult care and feminine care, including disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, reusable underwear, and other related products under the Huggies, Kotex, Goodfeel, Intimus, Depend and other brand names. The International Family Care and Professional segment offers facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins, wipers, tissue, towels, soaps and sanitizers, and other related products under the Kleenex, Scott, Viva, Andrex, Scottex, Wypall, and other brand names. It also 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 professional use products directly to distributors, manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, and public facilities, as well as through e-commerce. Kimberly-Clark Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
General
| Name | Kimberly-Clark Corp |
| Ticker | KMB |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Consumer Defensive |
| Industry | Household & Personal Products |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 38,000 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 142.94 |
| Market Cap | 44,310,700,000 |
| PE Ratio | 18.20 |
| PEG Ratio | 5.74 |
| EBITDA | 3,860,000,000 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 7.10 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 1.87 |
| Profit Margin | 12.48% |
| Operating Margin | 14.57 |
| Return on Assets | 0.12 |
| Return on Equity | 2.07 |
| Revenue | 19.7B |
| Earnings Per Share | 7.34 |
| Revenue Per Share | 59.07 |
| Gross Profit | 7,199,000,064 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | -0.06 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 17.83 |
| Forward PE | 18.38 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 2.20 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 39.28 |
Dividend
Kimberly-Clark Corp pays out a dividend of $5.00 per share, with a dividend yield of 3.75%.
KMB's next dividend payment will be made to shareholders on July 2, 2025.
They pay out 64.62% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Jul 2, 2025 | $1.26 |
| Apr 2, 2025 | $1.26 |
| Jan 3, 2025 | $1.22 |
| Oct 2, 2024 | $1.22 |
| Jul 2, 2024 | $1.22 |
| Apr 2, 2024 | $1.22 |
| Jan 3, 2024 | $1.18 |
| Oct 3, 2023 | $1.18 |
| Jul 5, 2023 | $1.18 |
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