Should Passive Income Investors Buy Kimberly-Clark Stock?

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Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) said tariffs would negatively impact the company's profits by hundreds of millions of dollars.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of May 22, 2025. The video was published on May 24, 2025.

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