Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB): Today's Featured Consumer Non-Durables Winner

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Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) pushed the Consumer Non-Durables industry higher today making it today's featured consumer non-durables winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.6%. By the end of trading, Kimberly-Clark Corporation rose $1.01 (1.1%) to $91.20 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.1 million shares of Kimberly-Clark Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.9 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $90.26-$91.27 after having opened the day at $90.43 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $90.19. Other companies within the Consumer Non-Durables industry that increased today were: MeadWestvaco Corporation (MWV), up 12.5%, Xerium Technologies (XRM), up 10.8%, Orient Paper (ONP), up 10.1%, and DS Healthcare Group (DSKX), up 8.5%.

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Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in manufacturing and marketing health care products worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, K-C Professional and Other, and Health Care. Kimberly-Clark Corporation has a market cap of $35.17 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.1, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 6.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Kimberly-Clark Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Kimberly-Clark Corporation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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