Currently, there are 723.61M common shares owned by the public and among those 717.58M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 5.91% and 9.30% over the past three months. KR shares are trading 11.43% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 19.27% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $49.04 and touched a high of $68.51 over the same period. KR has an average intraday trading volume of 6.01 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 3.56%, 6.00%, and 17.37% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) shares accounts for 82.32% of the company’s 723.61M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $49.31B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.59. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 18.56, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $3.67. The company has a PEG of 2.40 and a Quick Ratio of 0.52 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 3.03. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.00% over the week and 2.52% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 6.47%, and 8.48% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 7.73% over the next five years, compared to 12.49% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the KR, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Melius stated their Sell rating for the stock in a research note on April 01, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $58. Goldman coverage for the Kroger Co (KR) stock in a research note released on February 04, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $70. Citigroup was of a view on January 24, 2025 that the stock is Neutral, while Jefferies gave the stock Buy rating on December 03, 2024, issuing a price target of $54- $73. BMO Capital Markets on their part issued Market Perform rating on December 03, 2024.
