Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) on Tuesday, soared 0.22% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $71.59. Within the past 52 weeks, KR’s price has moved between $50.69 and $74.11.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Consumer Defensive sector saw sales topped by 12.51%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 6.76%. With a float of $655.98 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $661.00 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 409000 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 23.01%, operating margin of 2.64%, and the pretax margin is 2.22%.
Kroger Co (KR) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Grocery Stores industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Kroger Co is 0.78%, while institutional ownership is 88.50%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 16 ’25, was worth 272,834. In this transaction Director of this company sold 3,810 shares at a rate of $71.61, taking the stock ownership to the 85,850 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 16 ’25, when Company’s Director proposed sale 3,810 for $71.61, making the entire transaction worth $272,834.
Kroger Co (KR) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.04 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.76% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.24% 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 0.53 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 0.32. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 26.40.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.68, a number that is poised to hit 0.99 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.27 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Kroger Co (KR)
The latest stats from [Kroger Co, KR] show that its last 5-days average volume of 6.95 million was inferior to 7.11 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 60.43%.
During the past 100 days, Kroger Co’s (KR) raw stochastic average was set at 76.31%, which indicates a significant increase from 64.28% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 1.30 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 1.50 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $69.62, while its 200-day Moving Average is $65.01.
