Kimberly-Clark price target raised to $125 from $119 at JPMorgan

JPMorgan analyst Andrea Teixeira raised the firm’s price target on Kimberly-Clark to $125 from $119 and keeps an Underweight rating on the shares. The household and personal care Q4 earnings season will likely be worse sequentially as companies lap the benefit of pricing and, while volume comps are getting easier, demand has been softer for most, the analyst tells investors in a research note. That said, the firm believes that as the December fiscal year companies guide into 2024, it will look like a more normalized year for the most part, coming back to the pre-pandemic cadence of organic sales growth of 3%-4% with more balanced between volume and pricing.