On Monday, Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) was 2.82%% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $71.97. A 52-week range for KR has been $49.04 – $73.63.
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A company in the Consumer Defensive sector has jumped its sales by 12.51% annually for the last half of the decade. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 6.50%. With a float of $660.37 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $661.00 million.
In an organization with 409000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. 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 Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Kroger Co stocks. The insider ownership of Kroger Co is 0.82%, while institutional ownership is 87.71%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 23 ’25, was worth 2,162,058. In this transaction Executive Vice President of this company sold 30,000 shares at a rate of $72.07, taking the stock ownership to the 97,737 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 22 ’25, when Company’s Executive Vice President sold 30,000 for $73.00, making the entire transaction worth $2,190,000. This insider now owns 139,124 shares in total.
Kroger Co (KR) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.50% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.23% during the next five years compared to 12.51% growth 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 0.53. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.34. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 27.42.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.67, a number that is poised to hit 1.00 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.21 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Kroger Co (KR)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 14.86 million. That was better than the volume of 7.3 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 85.52%.
During the past 100 days, Kroger Co’s (KR) raw stochastic average was set at 99.20%, which indicates a significant increase from 98.90% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 42.19% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 29.28% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $69.00, while its 200-day Moving Average is $62.59. However, in the short run, Kroger Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $74.86. Second resistance stands at $75.73. The third major resistance level sits at $77.34. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $72.38, it is likely to go to the next support level at $70.77. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $69.90.
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) Key Stats
There are 660,893K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 49.27 billion. As of now, sales total 147,123 M while income totals 2,665 M. Its latest quarter income was 34,308 M while its last quarter net income were 634,000 K.
