On Tuesday, Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) was 0.50% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $63.44. A 52-week range for KR has been $56.17 – $74.90.
Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Consumer Defensive sector was 12.51%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 7.24%. With a float of $657.49 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $663.00 million.
Kroger Co (KR) Insider Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Kroger Co stocks. The insider ownership of Kroger Co is 0.78%, while institutional ownership is 87.11%. 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) Earnings and Forecasts
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 10/31/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 0.98 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 0.98) by 0. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.24 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 7.24% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.28% 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 0.54. 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 18.75.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.95, a number that is poised to hit 1.03 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.26 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Kroger Co (KR)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 7.11 million, its volume of 7.87 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 12.51%.
During the past 100 days, Kroger Co’s (KR) raw stochastic average was set at 7.86%, which indicates a significant decrease from 13.57% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 1.33 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 1.40 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $67.05, while its 200-day Moving Average is $67.80. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $64.47 in the near term. At $65.17, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $65.75. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $63.19, it is likely to go to the next support level at $62.61. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $61.91.
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) Key Stats
There are 662,678K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 42.25 billion. As of now, sales total 147,123 M while income totals 2,665 M. Its latest quarter income was 33,940 M while its last quarter net income were 609,000 K.
