Is it safe?
Can KMB take a bad year?
Kimberly-Clark carries $5.56B of net debt at 1.72× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$5.56B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.72×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.88× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 3.45
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 10.7×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $6.52B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $956M
- Net debt
- $5.56B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.24B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.51B
- Debt / equity
- 3.72×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.01×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −34%
- Below its 52-week high
- −15%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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