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PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER
MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
The dividend and market price data included in Item 8, Note 19 to the Consolidated Financial Statements is
incorporated in this Item 5 by reference.
Quarterly dividends have been paid continually since 1935. Dividends are paid on or about the second
business day of January, April, July and October. The Automatic Dividend Reinvestment service of
Computershare Investor Services is available to Kimberly-Clark stockholders of record. The service makes it
possible for Kimberly-Clark stockholders of record to have their dividends automatically reinvested in common
stock and to make additional cash investments up to $3,000 per quarter.
Kimberly-Clark common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The ticker symbol is KMB.
As of February 14, 2008, the Corporation had 30,458 holders of record of its common stock.
For information relating to securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans, see Part III,
Item 12 of this Form 10-K.
The Corporation regularly repurchases shares of Kimberly-Clark common stock pursuant to publicly
announced share repurchase programs. During 2007, the Corporation purchased $2.8 billion worth of its common
stock. The following table contains information for shares repurchased during the fourth quarter of 2007. None of
the shares in this table were repurchased directly from any officer or director of the Corporation.
ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Period (2007)
Total Number of
Shares
Purchased(a)
Average Price
Paid Per Share
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans
or Programs
Maximum Number
of Shares That
May Yet Be
Purchased Under
the Plans or
Programs
October 1 to 31 ....................... 1,392,000 $69.95 5,534,411 44,465,589
November 1 to 30 ..................... 1,281,000 68.97 6,815,411 43,184,589
December 1 to 31 ..................... 1,199,000 69.25 8,014,411 41,985,589
Total ........................... 3,872,000
(a) All share repurchases between October 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007 were made pursuant to a share repurchase program authorized by
the Corporation’s Board of Directors on July 23, 2007, which allows for the repurchase of 50 million shares in an amount not to exceed
$5.0 billion.
In addition, during November and December 2007, 3,606 shares at a cost of $249,716 and 3,315 shares at a
cost of $232,953, respectively, were purchased from current or former employees in connection with the exercise
of employee stock options and other awards. No such shares were purchased during October 2007.
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