A look at Kroger Co.’s (KR) recent performance gives investors their first glimpse of hope.

A new trading day began on Monday, with Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) stock price up 0.13% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $55.89. KR’s price has ranged from $42.10 to $58.34 over the past 52 weeks.

Consumer Defensive Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 4.41% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -6.46%. With a float of $717.67 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $720.00 million.

The firm has a total of 414000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 21.3%, operating margin of 3.06%, and the pretax margin is 2.39%.

Kroger Co. (KR) Insider Activity

As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Grocery Stores Industry. The insider ownership of Kroger Co. is 0.80%, while institutional ownership is 81.65%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 23 ’24, was worth 167,730. In this transaction Senior Vice President of this company sold 3,000 shares at a rate of $55.91, taking the stock ownership to the 74,084 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 17 ’24, when Company’s Vice President and Treasurer sold 3,010 for $55.57, making the entire transaction worth $167,269. This insider now owns 47,593 shares in total.

Kroger Co. (KR) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -6.46% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.00% during the next five years compared to -4.67% drop over the previous five years of trading.

Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Trading Performance Indicators

Here are Kroger Co.’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.46. 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 23.69.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.82, a number that is poised to hit 0.97 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.57 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Kroger Co. (KR)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Kroger Co., KR], we can find that recorded value of 3.47 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 4.92 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 28.85%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.01.

During the past 100 days, Kroger Co.’s (KR) raw stochastic average was set at 83.02%, which indicates a significant increase from 49.73% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 17.49% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 20.90% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $54.16, while its 200-day Moving Average is $52.13. Now, the first resistance to watch is $56.20. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $56.43. The third major resistance level sits at $56.76. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $55.64, it is likely to go to the next support level at $55.31. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $55.08.

Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Key Stats

With a market capitalization of 40.49 billion, the company has a total of 721,791K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 150,039 M while annual income is 2,164 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 33,912 M while its latest quarter income was 466,000 K.