On Monday, one of the largest acquisitions of 2026 closed, almost one year to the day after it was first announced. This is Kimberly-Clark 's (NASDAQ:KMB) purchase of consumer healthcare company Kenvue . The two companies said in their original announcement that Kenvue's enterprise value was a cool $48. 7 billion or so. That's immense, even when considering the huge size of both Kimberly-Clark and Kenvue (formerly a business owned by healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) ). So it'll result in significant changes to the storied Kimberly-Clark. Let's explore what that means for that company's stockholders, particularly since we're days away from its third-quarter earnings release.
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