Currently, there are 660.00M common shares owned by the public and among those 655.41M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 6.00% and 23.90% over the past three months. KR shares are trading 18.25% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 30.85% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $49.04 and touched a high of $71.93 over the same period. KR has an average intraday trading volume of 7.09 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 6.79%, 9.34%, and 22.07% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) shares accounts for 90.19% of the company’s 660.00M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $47.79B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.55. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 19.67, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $3.68. The company has a PEG of 2.66 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 2.47% over the week and 2.93% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Kroger Co (KR) will achieve an EPS of 1.46 for the current quarter, 1.0 for the next quarter and 5.15 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 1.43 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 1.43. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 1.43 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 5.79%, and 8.52% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 7.38% over the next five years, compared to 12.51% 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.
