Growth Metrics

Kimberly Clark (KMB) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Kimberly Clark (KMB) has 17 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.19% in Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 7.0% year-over-year to 0.19%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.19%, down 7.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.27%, 9.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.19% in Q3 2025 per KMB's latest filing, down from 0.24% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.29% in Q1 2021 and bottomed at 0.15% in Q4 2021.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.23%, with a median of 0.23% recorded in 2022.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: decreased -10bps in 2021, then rose 6bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.15% in 2021, then increased by 4bps to 0.16% in 2022, then grew by 19bps to 0.19% in 2023, then soared by 33bps to 0.25% in 2024, then decreased by -23bps to 0.19% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.19% in Q3 2025, 0.24% in Q2 2025, and 0.25% in Q1 2025.