KMB·Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Realized volatility (21d)

22.5% 77th pct

Below its peak

-38.4%

vs 200-day average

-5.0%

Up days (1y)

47%

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is currently running 22.5% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against KMB's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 77th percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 16.8%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.

KMB is trading -38.4% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -18.7%, and the deepest was -32.3% in 2025. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began — and where past declines also continued.

Price sits -5.0% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 25th percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year KMB closed higher on 47% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On September specifically: over 13 years of records, KMB finished the month higher 2 of 13 times, with a median return of -3.5% and an average of -3.4%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +4.0% on average, its weakest September at -3.4%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.

Overnight risk is measurable too: KMB has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 35 of 3,268 sessions (1.1% of the time), with the largest gaps running +11.0% and -9.1%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

Across the last 3 dated reports on file, KMB moved an average of 1.6% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -1.3% and a largest of -2.7%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-09-19 and 2026-09-18, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against KMB's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.