Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) kicked off on Monday, up 0.63% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $59.12. Over the past 52 weeks, KR has traded in a range of $44.48-$63.59.
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Annual sales at Consumer Defensive sector company grew by 4.41% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -6.68%. With a float of $717.78 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $724.00 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 414000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 21.48%, operating margin of 3.01%, and the pretax margin is 2.36%.
Kroger Co (KR) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Grocery Stores Industry. The insider ownership of Kroger Co is 0.80%, while institutional ownership is 81.49%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 19 ’24, was worth 1,040,288. In this transaction Senior VP & Interim CFO of this company sold 16,932 shares at a rate of $61.44, taking the stock ownership to the 53,782 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 12 ’24, when Company’s Senior Vice President sold 132,627 for $63.18, making the entire transaction worth $8,379,226. This insider now owns 217,523 shares in total.
Kroger Co (KR) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.54 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -6.68% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 5.00% during the next five years compared to -4.67% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Kroger Co’s (KR) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.07. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.29. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 20.86.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.78, a number that is poised to hit 1.10 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.77 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Kroger Co (KR)
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) saw its 5-day average volume 6.03 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 6.35 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 19.30%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.32.
During the past 100 days, Kroger Co’s (KR) raw stochastic average was set at 68.22%, which indicates a significant increase from 24.20% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 20.17% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 24.03% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $59.87, while its 200-day Moving Average is $55.57. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $59.87 in the near term. At $60.26, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $60.80. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $58.94, it is likely to go to the next support level at $58.40. The third support level lies at $58.01 if the price breaches the second support level.
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 43.05 billion has total of 723,606K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 150,039 M in contrast with the sum of 2,164 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 33,634 M and last quarter income was 618,000 K.
