Growth Metrics

Kimberly Clark (KMB) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Kimberly Clark (KMB) has 17 years of Return on Equity data on record, last reported at 0.26% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Equity fell 6.0% year-over-year to 0.26%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.26%, down 6.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.31%, 7.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Equity reached 0.26% in Q4 2025 per KMB's latest filing, down from 0.27% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Equity topped out at 3.41% in Q1 2021 and bottomed at 0.26% in Q4 2025.
  • Average Return on Equity over 5 years is 1.67%, with a median of 2.05% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Equity: crashed -1934bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 46bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Equity shows it stood at 2.42% in 2021, then increased by 19bps to 2.88% in 2022, then tumbled by -54bps to 1.32% in 2023, then crashed by -76bps to 0.32% in 2024, then fell by -19bps to 0.26% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Equity were 0.26% in Q4 2025, 0.27% in Q3 2025, and 0.28% in Q2 2025.