On Monday, Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) was 0.29% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $55.20. A 52-week range for KR has been $42.10 – $58.34.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Consumer Defensive sector was 4.41%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -7.24%. With a float of $715.87 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $720.00 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 414000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor.
Kroger Co. (KR) Insider Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Kroger Co. stocks. The insider ownership of Kroger Co. is 0.81%, while institutional ownership is 82.74%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 22 ’23, was worth 218,417. In this transaction Vice President and Treasurer of this company sold 4,798 shares at a rate of $45.52, taking the stock ownership to the 4,156 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 15 ’23, when Company’s Vice President and Treasurer sold 6,000 for $46.50, making the entire transaction worth $279,004. This insider now owns 44,090 shares in total.
Kroger Co. (KR) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.00 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -7.24% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.00% during the next five years compared to -4.67% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Kroger Co. (KR) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.36. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.27. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 13.44.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.96, a number that is poised to hit 1.34 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.54 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Kroger Co. (KR)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 4.98 million, its volume of 4.17 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 17.07%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.97.
During the past 100 days, Kroger Co.’s (KR) raw stochastic average was set at 81.41%, which indicates a significant increase from 10.78% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 20.75% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 22.70% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $52.17, while its 200-day Moving Average is $47.40. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $55.80 in the near term. At $56.23, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $56.49. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $55.10, it is likely to go to the next support level at $54.84. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $54.41.
Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Key Stats
There are 721,688K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 39.95 billion. As of now, sales total 150,039 M while income totals 2,164 M. Its latest quarter income was 37,064 M while its last quarter net income were 736,000 K.
