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Clorox CLX Net margin

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Kimberly-ClarkKMB
12.8%-2.1pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.7B+0.1%
Gross profit$722.0M-3.0%
Net income$187.0M+0.5%
EPS (diluted)$1.54+2.7%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$1.2B+418%
Total debt$4.5B+52.4%
Total equity-$67.0M-348%
Total assets$6.4B+16.8%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$311.0M+72.8%
CapEx$43.0M-18.9%
Free cash flow$269.0M+112%

Valuation

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Market cap$11.58B-30.9%
Enterprise value$14.88B-24.1%
P/E15.3×-8.8×
P/S1.7×-0.7×

Profitability

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Gross margin43.8%-1.4pp
FCF margin11.5%+1.8pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity249.6%+147pp
Debt / equity9.1×+0.1×
Current ratio0.8×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Clorox’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Clorox’s 10-Q, filed April 30, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Clorox's net margin?
Clorox (CLX) reported net margin of 11.2% in Q1 2026.
How has Clorox's net margin changed year-over-year?
Clorox's net margin increased by 13.1% year-over-year, from 9.9% to 11.2%.
What is the long-term trend for Clorox's net margin?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Clorox's net margin has grown at a 4.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 9.7% to 11.4%.
What does net margin mean?
The share of every sales dollar that becomes bottom-line profit.
How do you interpret net margin?
Higher is better, but net margin mixes operating performance with financing and tax effects and one-off items — read it alongside operating margin to separate the operating story from the rest.
How does net margin compare across companies?
Comparable across peers but sensitive to leverage and tax structure; two operationally identical firms can show different net margins purely from financing.