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PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER
MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
The dividend and market price data included in Item 8, Note 22 to the Consolidated Financial Statements
are incorporated in this Item 5 by reference.
Quarterly dividends have been paid continually since 1935. Dividends have been paid on or about the
second business day of January, April, July and October. The dividend reinvestment service of Computershare
Investor Services is available to our stockholders of record. This service makes it possible for our stockholders of
record to have their dividends automatically reinvested in common stock and to make additional cash
investments.
Kimberly-Clark common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The ticker symbol is KMB.
As of February 11, 2011, we had 27,955 holders of record of our common stock.
For information relating to securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans, see Part III,
Item 12 of this Form 10-K.
We repurchase shares of Kimberly-Clark common stock from time to time pursuant to publicly announced
share repurchase programs. During 2010, we purchased $800 million of our common stock. All our share
repurchases were made through a broker in the open market.
The following table contains information for shares repurchased during the fourth quarter of 2010. None of
the shares in this table was repurchased directly from any of our officers or directors.
Period (2010)
Total Number
of Shares
Purchased(1)
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 ................................ 492,000 $65.54 29,724,411 20,275,589
November 1 to 30 .............................. 520,000 62.08 30,244,411 19,755,589
December 1 to 31 .............................. 567,000 62.50 30,811,411 19,188,589
Total .................................... 1,579,000
(1) All share repurchases between October 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010 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 50 million shares in an amount not to exceed
$5.0 billion. In January 2011, the Board of Directors authorized an additional share repurchase program which provides for purchases up
to 50 million shares, in an amount not to exceed $5.0 billion.
During October, November and December 2010, we withheld for taxes the following shares from current or
former employees with respect to our stock-based compensation plans.
Month Shares Amount
October .................................................................. 20,565 $1,302,587
November ................................................................ 18,573 1,154,583
December ................................................................ ——
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