Kroger Co (KR) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $72.38, with 6.0 million shares of worth about $434.44 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 27.95% during that period and on May 07, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.81%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 660.00M shares, out of which, 655.28M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.24% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 8.91%. Year-to-date (YTD), KR shares are showing a performance of 18.36% which increased to 32.13% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $49.04 but also hit the highest price of $73.63 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Kroger Co shares is 7.61 million. The stock is currently trading 2.35% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 6.85% for SMA50 and it goes to 19.88% higher than SMA200.
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) currently have 660.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 89.10% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $47.84B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.61. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.68, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.68 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.67 and has Quick Ratio of 0.52 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 3.03. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for KR, volatility over the week remained 1.62% while standing at 2.46% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 5.79% while it is estimated to increase by 8.49% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 7.37% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 12.51% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Melius on April 01, 2025 offering a Sell rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $58 to it. Coverage by Goldman stated Kroger Co (KR) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on February 04, 2025, suggesting a price target of $70 for the stock. On January 24, 2025, Citigroup Resumed their recommendations, while on December 03, 2024, Jefferies Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $73. Stock get a Market perform rating from BMO Capital Markets on December 03, 2024.
