Growth Metrics

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

Kimberly Clark has reported Return on Equity over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.27% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Equity at 0.27% for Q4 2025, down 7.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.27% (down 7.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.32%, down 8.0%.
  • Return on Equity for Q4 2025 was 0.27% at Kimberly Clark, down from 0.28% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Equity for KMB hit a ceiling of 3.41% in Q1 2021 and a floor of 0.27% in Q4 2025.
  • Median Return on Equity over the past 5 years was 1.61% (2022), compared with a mean of 1.59%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Equity: tumbled -1934bps in 2021 and later skyrocketed 128bps in 2022.
  • Kimberly Clark's Return on Equity stood at 1.81% in 2021, then soared by 71bps to 3.09% in 2022, then plummeted by -57bps to 1.32% in 2023, then crashed by -74bps to 0.34% in 2024, then decreased by -20bps to 0.27% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Equity were 0.27% (Q4 2025), 0.28% (Q3 2025), and 0.28% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.