Growth Metrics

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

Kimberly Clark has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.79% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.79% for Q4 2025, down 56.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.79% (down 56.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.89%, up 47.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.79% at Kimberly Clark, down from 0.8% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for KMB hit a ceiling of 1.62% in Q2 2023 and a floor of 0.27% in Q1 2022.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.89% (2022), compared with a mean of 0.89%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: plummeted -147bps in 2021 and later skyrocketed 106bps in 2024.
  • Kimberly Clark's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.27% in 2021, then soared by 232bps to 0.89% in 2022, then plummeted by -68bps to 0.29% in 2023, then soared by 371bps to 1.35% in 2024, then tumbled by -42bps to 0.79% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.79% (Q4 2025), 0.8% (Q3 2025), and 1.07% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.