Kimberly-Clark Corporation operates in the Sanitary paper products sector.
In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Kimberly-Clark with three other
manufacturers of various paper products in North America:
Sealed Air Corporation
(2019
sales of $4.79 billion
of which 60%
was Food Care),
Avery Dennison Corporation
($7.07 billion
of which 67%
was Label and Graphic Materials), and
Unicharm Corp
($6.56 billion
of which 87%
was Personal Care).
Sales Analysis.
Kimberly-Clark reported sales of $18.45 billion
for the
year ending
December of 2019.
This
represents
a
decrease of 0.2%
versus 2018, when the company's sales were $18.49 billion.
The sales level in 2019 was fairly close to the level five years ago: in 2014, Kimberly-Clark had sales
of $19.72 billion.
Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 2.7% decline
in K-C Professional, from $3.38 billion to $3.29 billion.
There were also decreases in sales in
Consumer Tissue (down 0.4% to $5.99 billion)
.
However, these declines were partially offset by the increase in sales of
Personal Care (up 0.8% to $9.11 billion)
and
Corporate and Other (up 9.6% to $57.00 million)
.