Growth Metrics

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

Kimberly Clark (KMB) has 17 years of Return on Invested Capital data on record, last reported at 0.85% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 25.0% year-over-year to 0.85%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.85%, down 25.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 1.05%, 34.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital reached 0.85% in Q4 2025 per KMB's latest filing, up from 0.58% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 1.59% in Q2 2023 and bottomed at 0.56% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 1.11%, with a median of 1.1% recorded in 2022.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: tumbled -147bps in 2021, then soared 76bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 1.23% in 2021, then increased by 11bps to 1.37% in 2022, then decreased by -30bps to 0.96% in 2023, then rose by 14bps to 1.09% in 2024, then dropped by -23bps to 0.85% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Invested Capital were 0.85% in Q4 2025, 0.58% in Q3 2025, and 0.85% in Q2 2025.