Short interest in Kimberly-Clark Corp (NYSE:KMB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 4.25M to 5.17M. This put 1.55% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Kimberly-Clark gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Kimberly-Clark's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 2.32M shares traded per day, it would take 2.23 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.