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Operating Expense Breakdown
Details core costs like R&D, marketing, and admin, offering insight into how efficiently Kimberly Clark runs and where it’s prioritizing investment.Marketing, Research and General Expenses climbed into 2023–24 then have trended down through 2025 into early‑2026, suggesting a deliberate pullback/discipline after a peak; a one‑time impairment in mid‑2023 and large volatile "Other" swings (including sizable negatives) introduce noise that masks the underlying SG&A trajectory. Management’s emphasis on 6% productivity, pricing‑net‑of‑cost discipline and supply‑chain investment supports the normalization and the company’s margin expansion targets, but the Q2 California distribution‑center fire and potential H2 commodity costs pose timing and execution risks to that recovery.
Date | Other | Marketing, Research and General Expenses | Impairment of Intangible Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
Jun 30, 2026 | -$34.00M | $1.00B | $0.00 |
Mar 31, 2026 | -$139.00M | $920.00M | $0.00 |
Dec 31, 2025 | $3.00M | $955.00M | $0.00 |
Sep 30, 2025 | $17.00M | $855.00M | $0.00 |
Jun 30, 2025 | $1.00M | $863.00M | $0.00 |
Mar 31, 2025 | $23.00M | $941.00M | $0.00 |
Dec 31, 2024 | $18.00M | $1.11B | $0.00 |
Sep 30, 2024 | -$564.00M | $1.10B | $0.00 |
Jun 30, 2024 | $89.00M | $1.07B | $0.00 |
Mar 31, 2024 | $19.00M | $1.04B | $0.00 |