How Kimberly-Clark Corporation stacks up

KMB · against 151 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

89/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #22 of 152 · scores higher than 85% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

16 peers with a profitability score of 80–89, including KMB · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 89?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly thanks to its return on assets, return on invested capital and operating margin, which are stronger than most Consumer Defensive peers.

a wider operating margin: stronger than 78% of peers. Operating margin: 15.2% vs peer median 7.6%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 89% of peers. Return on invested capital: 27.2% vs peer median 7.7%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 91% of peers. Return on assets: 10.5% vs peer median 4.0%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = KMB, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	KMB	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 147 reported	27.2%	8.4%	86%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 153 reported	15.2%	5.9%	82%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 152 reported	10.5%	4.3%	85%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 144 reported	104.9%	10.2%	99%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 154 reported	37.6%	35.5%	56%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around KMB

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Altria Group, Inc.MO · US-listed	128.5B USD	99	46
1	Philip Morris International Inc.PM · US-listed	324.2B USD	99	54
1	Phoenix Education Partners, Inc.PXED · US-listed	843M USD	99	88
4	The Vita Coco Company, Inc.COCO · US-listed	3.5B USD	98	73
5	National Beverage Corp.FIZZ · US-listed	3.4B USD	97	54
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19	Interparfums, Inc.IPAR · US-listed	3.7B USD	90	60
19	Unilever PLCUL · US-listed	139.6B USD	90	53
22	Afya LimitedAFYA · US-listed	933M USD	89	84
22	Costco Wholesale CorporationCOST · US-listed	451.8B USD	89	52
22	Kimberly-Clark CorporationKMB · US-listed	34.7B USD	89	44
25	Constellation Brands, Inc.STZ · US-listed	23.6B USD	88	48
26	Brown-Forman CorporationBF-A · US-listed	13.7B USD	87	59
26	The Hershey CompanyHSY · US-listed	33.7B USD	87	51
28	British American Tobacco p.l.c.BTI · US-listed	130.9B USD	85	61

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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