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Currently, there are 661.00M common shares owned by the public and among those 655.74M shares have been available to trade.
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The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 1.02% and 0.41% over the past three months. KR shares are trading 32.48% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 18.74% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $50.69 and touched a high of $74.11 over the same period. KR has an average intraday trading volume of 7.52 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 1.66%, 4.99%, and 13.01% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) shares accounts for 88.67% of the company’s 661.00M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $48.01B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.58. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 19.74, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $3.68. The company has a PEG of 2.40 and a Quick Ratio of 0.53 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.83. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.76% over the week and 2.01% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 6.76%, and 10.47% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 8.24% over the next five years, compared to 12.51% over the past 5-year period.
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Looking at the support for the KR, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Barclays stated their Equal Weight rating for the stock in a research note on July 21, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $75. Telsey Advisory Group coverage for the Kroger Co (KR) stock in a research note released on June 23, 2025 offered a Outperform rating with a price target of $82. Melius was of a view on May 20, 2025 that the stock is Hold, while Melius gave the stock Sell rating on April 01, 2025, issuing a price target of $58. Goldman on their part issued Buy rating on February 04, 2025.
