Wuerth While Wily Wakenings: Worldwide Consolidated Kimberly-Clark Had Very High Pricing (Inflation) Components in Each of the Most Recent Three Quarters ... +9% in Both the Sept 22 and June 22 Quarters and +6% in the March 22 Quarter That Was Substantially Above That in the Previous Three Quarters, Which Averaged a Modest 2% Per Quarter.

Monday, January 9, 2023

Worldwide Consolidated Kimberly-Clark Had Very High Pricing (Inflation) Components in Each of the Most Recent Three Quarters ... +9% in Both the Sept 22 and June 22 Quarters and +6% in the March 22 Quarter That Was Substantially Above That in the Previous Three Quarters, Which Averaged a Modest 2% Per Quarter.

From its most recent six Quarterly Earnings Releases filed with the US SEC, here are the Higher Pricing (Inflation) Components of Worldwide Consolidated Kimberly-Clark's Net Sales Increases:

Sept 2022 +9%
June 2022 +9%
March 2022 +6%
Dec 2021 +2%
Sept 2021 +3%
June 2021 +1%

Kimberly-Clark's Personal Care Segment's six most recent Quarterly Higher Pricing (Inflation) Components are:

Sept 2022 +8%
June 2022 +9%
March 2022 +8%
Dec 2021 +4%
Sept 2021 +4%
June 2021 0%

Kimberly-Clark's Consumer Tissue Segment's six most recent Quarterly Higher Pricing (Inflation) Components are:

Sept 2022 +9%
June 2022 +7%
March 2022 +5%
Dec 2021 (-1%)
Sept 2021 +1%
June 2021 0%

Clearly, the substantial higher pricing decisions by Kimberly-Clark's CEO which were reviewed by Kimberly-Clark's Board of Directors were one of the causes of US inflation being so high in each of the most recent three quarters ... Sept 2022, June 2022 and March 2022.

Kimberly-Clark's Sept 2022 Earnings Release