Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) on Monday, soared 1.26% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $68.22. Within the past 52 weeks, KR’s price has moved between $49.04 and $71.93.
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Annual sales at Consumer Defensive sector company grew by 3.84% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 5.79%. With a float of $655.41 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $660.00 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 409000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 22.04%, operating margin of 2.74%, and the pretax margin is 2.27%.
Kroger Co (KR) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Grocery Stores industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Kroger Co is 0.83%, while institutional ownership is 90.20%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 04 ’25, was worth 2,083,200. In this transaction Executive Vice President of this company sold 30,000 shares at a rate of $69.44, taking the stock ownership to the 127,737 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 03 ’25, when Company’s Vice President and Treasurer sold 5,541 for $70.79, making the entire transaction worth $392,258. This insider now owns 3,480 shares in total.
Kroger Co (KR) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.0 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.79% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.38% during the next five years compared to 12.51% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) Trading Performance Indicators
Kroger Co (KR) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.52 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.31. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 24.36.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.68, a number that is poised to hit 1.45 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.13 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Kroger Co (KR)
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) saw its 5-day average volume 11.52 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 6.72 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 49.72%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.09.
During the past 100 days, Kroger Co’s (KR) raw stochastic average was set at 80.81%, which indicates a significant increase from 60.85% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 36.17% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 26.17% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $65.67, while its 200-day Moving Average is $58.83. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $69.77 in the near term. At $70.46, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $71.52. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $68.02, it is likely to go to the next support level at $66.96. The third support level lies at $66.27 if the price breaches the second support level.
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 45.65 billion based on 660,893K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 147,123 M and income totals 2,665 M. The company made 34,308 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 634,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
